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How best to respond to “We’d like just nuggets, please”? Am I right to feel a little uneasy when a customer or potential customer (I can’t bring myself to use the ugly term ‘prospect’) says that all they want is ‘just nuggets’? In the back of my mind there’s a kindly relative asking “Just nuggets, […]
written by Paul and Sophie – two sorely afflicted students Don’t forget to complete our survey on the role of the learning platforms and get a chance to win tickets for the football game between France and England on 17 November 2015 at Wembley Stadium, London It’s that time of the year again: Thousands over thousands […]
Saffron Interactive is sponsoring the ‘Strategy and Tactics’ stream at the eLearning Network conference in London on 11 November 2015, entitled ‘Beyond “click next”… digital learning solutions come of age’. Saffron’s session will tackle the need for learning infrastructures that improve performance.
You’ve been transferred to a foreign branch of your company. You’ve studied the language at school but you haven’t used it in years and you’ve never been to that part of the world. Besides, to comply with local regulations the work procedures are different. Now imagine, it’s your first day in your new role. You […]
A recent episode of This American Life told the story of the NUMMI car manufacturing plant in Freemont, California. In 1984, NUMMI was opened in a joint venture between General Motors (GM) and Toyota. At NUMMI, Toyota showed GM the secrets behind making, back then, some of the world’s best built and most reliable cars. […]
Well, who wouldn’t want to be? Agile, I mean. Given that there are so many antonyms of ‘agile’, including dull, ignorant, inactive, lazy, lethargic, lifeless, rigid, slow, and for good measure, probably sluggish too. My background is in software development and traditional IT classroom training on topics including programming and project management. I gained twenty […]
The Instructional Designer role has never been considered particularly cool. But, just like mainstream indie or double roundabouts, the only reason it hasn’t been replaced is that no one’s agreed on a suitable alternative. Come to think of it, it’s pretty hard to pin down exactly what an ID is meant to be doing. Wikipedia […]
Michelin and Saffron Interactive have been shortlisted in the category of “Best use of blended learning” for the “Brand Usage by Dealers” programme. The programme applied cutting-edge instructional approaches to deliver an astonishing increase in brand value.
As an avid gamer with more than my fair share of first-hand gaming experience, my toes curl at the half-hearted attempts at gamification that creep into elearning like a serial photobomber. In an age of simplified, some might say distilled, mobile gaming where simple interactions lead to addictive gameplay (i.e. ‘flappy bird’, ‘angry birds’, anything […]
No, the answer’s not having a very good lawyer or an alert public relations officer. The rules to the game have changed! The Environment Agency has grown a sharper pair of teeth. It has recently used its new sentencing powers against a utility company to make a statement: Fines for environmental breaches are now going […]
Hej! (more on this in a moment) I’ve just finished my placement year of my engineering degree at Saffron Interactive. But my placement journey began not at Saffron, but a while before that. Having been rejected from a few multinational tech organisations (not going to name any names), I felt deflated and so I decided […]
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