The remix effect

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
– Steve Jobs

Great songs don’t fade away. They get remixed. The melody remains, but the arrangement evolves for a new audience, a new style, or a new moment in time.

Our thought leader partners at 1st90 are applying that same philosophy to workplace learning through Kyper—their behavior change platform designed to help organizations create once, remix intelligently, reinforce learning, translate it into action on the job, and measure business impact.

The Kyper platform brings together 3 complementary capabilities. Kyper Shift delivers an execution layer via the learner experience through bite-sized lessons, daily micro-actions, AI coaching, practice bots, and peer interactions that help learners apply new skills and build lasting habits in the flow of work.

Behind the scenes, Kyper Studio is the creator layer, where AI helps organizations rapidly build goal-first learning cycles around business outcomes, incorporate existing content, and remix cycles for different business units, roles, regions, languages, or audiences—without starting over.

Completing the platform, Kyper Dashboard connects engagement, behavior change, and learning activity to organizational KPIs and other insights, giving leaders a real-time layer of rich data including adoption, feedback, behavior shifts, and business impact.

One of our clients, a global manufacturer, recently piloted this approach with frontline supervisors. As the program demonstrated success, it expanded across manufacturing sites worldwide in multiple languages, with discussions already underway about adapting—or “remixing”—the same behavior-change approach for other parts of the business.

That’s the power of building once, then intelligently adapting proven pathways rather than starting over.

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton famously described the challenge as the knowing-doing gap—the distance between what people learn and what they actually do. That’s the challenge at the heart of 1st90’s evolving solutions for learning & development.

That’s also the remix effect, extending the knowing-doing connection by making behavior change a strategic business capability for organizations.

Curious about how 1st90 can help your organization reinforce learning, accelerate behavior change, and drive execution by closing the knowing-doing gap? Contact us or talk to your Advantage partner. We’d love to tell you more.

One great thing for 07.14.26 – How the Knowing-Doing Gap Undermines Even the Best Ideas (Fast Company) – Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton famously described the challenge as the knowing-doing gap—the distance between what people learn and what they actually do. More than 25 years later, the concept remains as relevant as ever.

Why do so many great ideas never become consistent action? This thoughtful article revisits one of talent development’s oldest challenges—and why closing the knowing-doing gap remains essential for lasting behavior change.