Home » HR practices » Professional development » Business practices: how high-tech firm Thales is upping the pace of educational innovation and the ‘marketing’ of solutions that better meet the needs of professions and employees Business practices: how high-tech firm Thales is upping the pace of educational innovation and the ‘marketing’ of solutions that better meet the needs of professions and employees More than 18 months ago Jean-Roch Houllier, director of educational innovation at the Thales Learning Hub, established a structure geared towards helping his company’s training system meet new demands and “above all remain at the hub of an arena that has become considerably more complex with the arrival of new players”, which has led to a kind of “uberisation” of training. Before thinking about this new structure and strategy, Houllier needed to closely analyse the ways the world of training is being transformed. In an interview with Planet Labor, he shares some of his analysis and recounts how his vision and strategy for education and digital came about. Through . Published on 13 January 2020 à 16h10 - Update on 13 January 2020 à 16h10 Resources How would you summarise the trends that are currently challenging companies’ training systems? Jean-Roch Houllier. The first trend is the ubiquity of knowledge, from which results a kind of ‘uberisation’ of the world of education. Today, knowledge is everywhere. There are opportunities to soak up content all over the internet and not only there. This situation has a critical consequence for all institutions involved in the formal and traditional world of training. It raises the question of who ultimately holds knowledge and calls into question the knowledge holder. This necessarily leads to a repositioning in terms of the value proposition of our training systems in our companies, if we want to remain at the hub of training in the future. The other trend is the rise of attitudes that are more opportunistic and, in a way, more consumerist on the part of our learners.… This article is for subscribers only Already have an account? Log in You are not registered yet ? Sign up for a free trialfree for 15 days Online services : studies, analyses, databases and much more Daily Briefing : latest news digest Weekly letters Last name First name Email address Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst nameLast nameOrganizationFunctionemail* Object of the messageYour messagePhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications What type of employment status will platform workers hold? Planet Labor updates its comparison of several countries’ regulatory responses CSR: support for caregiving employees, a new challenge for companies Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels
