T&D is also just a node in the network too. I think you have all implied this in some of your posts, let me know if you think I’m making the wrong connections.

Jane says “what is needed is an organisational system that SUPPORTS and ENABLES this informal approach to learning.”

I agree and think of system as the “integrated whole” (many of the concepts from each of your blogs) and not just tools & technology. I realize Jane’s article was focusing on a LMS but think that it could be interpreted as system=technology in the statement (maybe she does mean that, I’m not sure).

Just like real life today, only faster ?

The thing is … regardless of the design and features of any given LMS (or other “X”MS), people always turn to each other … for validation, for answers, for framing issues, to get connected to the next possible source of info, etc.

It’s a hairball-ish process now, even though it’s supposed to be manageable and managed. It’ll be hairball-ish afterwards as well, no doubt … but I am willing to bet that people will somehow or other get better at finding and learning what they need to understand and know.

Today I finished reading John Hagels’ and JSB’s new book, Pull. They see the world as I do. We are going through a phase change. It may be more useful to describe it as before and after rather than evolutionary.

I suspect that “after” is going to resemble a giant hairball.

jay

Yes. The design of work that takes into account connections, flows, nodes of expertise, etc. is a critical piece of this / these emergent model(s).

Thanks, Dennis, for pointing that out.

The 5 stages model seems limited to the T&D point of view. If the point is from the T&D view, it feels like it needs to be broader. The stages feel more like “Learning Approaches that T&D has used to deliver & facilitate to the organization over the years”.

If learning=working and vise versa, it seems like work and the organization should be represented in the model beyond top down/bottom up. Shouldn’t workscape stages show how the organization is adapting from a learning and working point of view rather than how T&D has changed its approach?

I like your statement “Every node in the networked enterprise is unique but the network itself is even more important. Social learning is how we get things done in networks”. I agree – social learning is happening at each of the 5 stages and not a specific stage. Maybe the Social Learning Stage means the use of social media type tools for learning.

Thanks for keeping the conversation going…