Thought leadership for workforce development.

May 10, 2022

Explicit Intent is Identity

There is a trick theory to improve the pursuit of well-being that strikes us, at Placement Loop, as especially agitating. It is the theory of identity in the context of data. Let’s call it the data-first theory. Currently, the web is being used by companies to control the…

Kevin Carroll

Dec 21, 2021

End Data Slavery

Although huge investments have been made in human capital management in the last decade, nothing has moved the needle and created real change. The root cause is data slavery between employers and employees.

Kevin Carroll

Jun 25, 2018

A Service System Perspective of Work

More broadly and abstractly, service is being viewed as the process of doing something for another person (or entity) that is beneficial. Think of it as the act of helping another. So, for an employer, for example, that could be the number of hours of “work”…

Kevin Carroll

Feb 27, 2018

Why a Service System for Placement Loop?

With the nature of the economic landscape changing to concentrated infrastructure and market fragmentation at the same time, value-creating service systems of interconnected entities, including individuals, are emerging where participants render their…

Kevin Carroll

Feb 27, 2018

The Trusted Advisor in Amateur Sports

As the Founder & CEO of Placement Loop, I am intrigued by the growing demand for advisors in the amateur sports market. In amateur ice hockey, these advisors are commonly referred to as “family advisors” and they build relationships with coaches and players to…

Kevin Carroll

Feb 27, 2018

The S-D Logic of Workers as Wine Grapes

Let’s start with a practical definition of service-dominant logic: S-D logic is a perspective — a lens through which you can design and build things to address demand-side marketplaces made up of buyers and sellers (or consumers and producers, if you like) and…

From G-D Logic to S-D Logic in Human Capital Resource (HCR) Management

In the human capital resource (HCR) management industry customers (i.e., employers, workers, and learners) are looking for alternatives to current solutions provided by higher education and training providers…