Interview with Avinash Chandarana, Head of MCI Institute, MCI Group, May 22, 2020
3 Takeaways
The COVID-19 crisis has suddenly put MCI Institute at the center of MCI Group since its accumulated experience in digital learning can be leveraged to help its clients to engage their audience by digital/virtual methods. And AI recommendation engine can automate and personalize engagement experience to scale-up the impact.
L&D professionals should have these capabilities:
Can find, synthesize and curate contents according to objectives
Know how to use AI to drive learning for business goals/strategies
Become a performance consultant for business units
Know how to measure the impact of learning programs
Because of AI, the MCI L&D team only needs two persons, they also de-centralize L&D to enable each business unit to create their own learning programs for their needs.
Classroom Aid is a consulting firm consulting on learning technology, data analytics, and AI. We do industry study and community service, so doing interviews is one of the methods for both. One of the latest events is “AI for Executives” hosted last November in Beijing. Executives from big companies shared and exchanged digital transformation experience, that was with Microsoft and UBS University, other China companies are listed here.
We now are to continue the conversation online by interviews to create case studies and share them with our social groups – the China executives member group, IEEE ICICLE (a community of L&D professionals), and other conferences we co-host events. This online conversation will bein asynchronous + synchronous model, because of the time zone difference and it’s naturally beneficial with a variety of engagement formats.
Each interview’s theme and questions will be co-created with each speaker with different focuses. Its purpose is to discover “Enterprise Digital Transformation, now and future”.
The goal of WOA PITCH is to surface the promising L&D products, methods, or solutions that can help organizations and individuals achieve higher. This event aims to support them with the resources needed to scale up their impact, resources including potential investors, clients, and partners in China or the global market.
Startups or “internal projects/teams of organizations” addressing the following challenges are of interest. (it’s ok that you only offer a key piece of technology in a solution)
Finding and matching the right talents efficiently with jobs or tasks,
Supporting talent development strategies driving business outcomes and leveling up human’s autonomy, cognitive, action-taking abilities, soft and hard skills,
Augmenting human’s performance by AI, technologies, and design,
Redesigning work for human-machine collaboration,
Solutions to solve data and product silos issue.
Process
All participants are organizations
The submission period is Jul.1 ~ Aug.31. In September, auditing and will be conducted to select qualifiers. our auditing team will interview with each team to verify the statements on the submissions, projects with fake statements will be removed.
The qualifiers will be announced at the beginning of October.
Qualifiers will be recognized and present at the China E-learning Forum and Exhibition (CEFE) conference (Nov. 13-14, Beijing, China).
Submission
A brief less than 2000 words in both English or Mandarin (no limitation on the number of images),
A video less than 10 min. (optional),
Basic information of the participating organization and introduction of the team,
Application fee.
What Qualifiers Receive
The opportunity to showcase to L&D decision-makers at 11th CEFE and feedback from them, they are CLOs/CHROs, presidents & managers of corporate universities, investors, and potential partners,
Recognition on the press release announcing the qualifiers which will be delivered through WeChat, LinkedIn, Twitter, Online-edu.org, and partner media network,
Attention and funding opportunity from investors to scale your impact,
WeChat group or emails to answer questions about the event, and conversations after the event,
One free consulting meeting with Wise Ocean Accelerator (WOA), further acceleration projects can be set up if needed.
What Will be Important to Us
Value proposition: the impact and the value created/will be created for organizations and individuals,
Innovation: creative problem-solving with practical support for implementations,
Measurable benefits: proven benefits by measurable learning or business outcomes and human’s feedback,
Scalable social impact: developing humans to be better prepared for the future of the workforce.
The mission of WOA (Wise Ocean Accelerator) is to form a global resource network to support business growth in the global market, especially China, India, and the United States. The “resources” include people/talents, relationship, expertise & research/technical resources, corporate/market partners, incubators/accelerators, governments, and investors.
We work with an array of incubators, accelerators, governments, advisors and consulting organizations to support our clients. Our advisors are business executives, entrepreneurs, startup mentors and HR leaders from the US, Australia, Finland, India, Switzerland, UK, and China. Our partners in different countries are passionate about creating global impact.
Online-edu was founded in 2000. Always on the international forefront of the E-learning industry, Online-edu has been dedicated to promoting advanced techniques and concepts in corporate training and has helped hundreds of enterprises apply new learning models. It owns two important brands: CEFE (China E-learning Forum & Exhibition) and Booaoo Awards.
CEFE is an annual conference for Chinese enterprises to meet and present the latest technologies, models, and concepts of learning. Audiences are HR decision-makers and L&D practitioners from corporates across China, including state-owned enterprises(telecom., banking, petroleum, insurance…), national and international companies from the Internet, media, e-commerce, manufacturing, electronics industries. These are just a few organizations that attend constantly. The number of in-person participants ranges from 2000-3000+ (not including the online audience), this year it will host the 11th conference and the scale will be the biggest since it’s the first time it will co-host it with Training Magazine — the state-owned leading platform for corporate L&D industry in China.
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