Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. via @captic – Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The traditional, industrial age hierarchic organization must evolve Value creation has thus been shifting from protecting proprietary knowledge, to fostering collaboration, both within the company and beyond its boundaries, in order to help the firm participate in [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetIn The Learning Layer , the concept of reversing the idea funnel is discussed in depth. Traditional innovation processes take many ideas, and through elimination, narrow these down to a few. Flipping the funnel reverses this by breaking ideas into capability components and building on them. Most business ideas are a bundle of two or [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetThe Learning Layer: Building the next level of intellect in your organization, begins with some solid insights on how learning is the key to performing in the networked workplace. Learning has been the traditional realm of HR while most systems are supported by IT. This means that HR supports the people who produce the tacit [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetWe may think we should adopt best practices, but to be really effective and innovative we need to practice to be best. First, we have to do the hard thinking about how to do things better. Jay Deragon talks about how important it is to think about what we do and not just emulate others: [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetEven though we have witnessed significant changes in the work we do, F.W. Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management (1911) still informs much of our business practice. It is only through enforced standardization of methods, enforced adoption of the best implements and working conditions, and enforced cooperation that this faster work can be assured. And the [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: Quotes of the Week: @ralphmercer – “committees are places to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame” via @planetrussell- “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while giving the appearance of stability.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PhD. “when hiring, we don’t [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Harold Jarche
Tweet“Every amateur epistemologist knows that knowledge cannot be managed. Education has always assumed that knowledge can be transferred and that we can carefully control the process through education. That is a grand illusion.” David Jonassen While knowledge cannot be managed [at an organizational level*], we can work at managing our own knowledge. That’s what personal [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetIs social media added to a learning platform the answer to promoting informal and social learning in the enterprise? To address these trends and take advantage of the new capabilities that social computing and social networks can bring to learning, SkillSoft’s Books24×7 division introduced inGenius. It enables social learning by extending the value of expert [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week: Mark Twain’s Posthumous Bombshells by @cburell Why is Mark Twain’s autobiography only coming out now, 100 years after his death? Because he stipulated so before dying. What he expresses in these screenshots from a PBS Newshour clip of the manuscript suggests why [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
TweetIn PKM in a Nutshell, I linked my various posts on personal knowledge management to make the framework more coherent. My ITA colleague, Jane Hart has just released an extensive resource that correlates nicely with the PKM framework. It is called A WORKING SMARTER RESOURCE: A Practical Guide to using Social Media in Your Job [...]
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