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.
- 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 wh
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