Harold Jarche

TweetI have put together two of the major articles on social learning in the enterprise that were posted here this year. A framework for social learning drew on my collaboration with colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance and the evolving social organization was co-authored by Thierry deBaillon. Please feel free to share this 18 page [...]

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TweetThe most interesting presentation at last week’s ACCTCanada Directors Forum was, in my opinion, on open innovation by Angus Livingstone, UILO at UBC. Much of the discussion by other presenters focused on patents and other control mechanisms, while Angus showed the shifting paradigms that we are experiencing in university knowledge transfer. He explained that the [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES Metrics. Dilbert’s boss: “Last year our safety goal was 25 injuries. We had to hurt 6 people to meet it.” via @JaneBozarth Chance favours the connected mind. by @timkastelle ***** If your overall strategy depends on speed to market … patents [...]

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TweetDan Pink discusses Karl Fisch’s classroom techniques in the Telegraph article: Think Tank: Flip thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US However, instead of lecturing about polynomials and exponents during class time – and then giving his young charges 30 problems to work on at home – Fisch has flipped the sequence. He’s [...]

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TweetKlaus Wittkuhn wrote an excellent article on the systemic approach required in human performance analysis in the March 2004 edition of Performance Improvement published by ISPI. A key concept in the article is that you cannot engineer human performance. Human performance is an emergent property of an organization, and is affected by multiple variables. Therefore [...]

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TweetOver the past decade I’ve come to the conclusion that networks are changing everything in our lives. Dealing with networks is the big challenge for leaders, managers and knowledge workers of all types. Because we are all inter-networked, work is learning and learning is the work. We can no longer separate learning and working, and [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: QUOTES: @GeorgeKao “There’s no such thing as ‘keeping up.’ There’s only checking in at high leverage times.” @JohnDCook “He who marries the spirit of the age will soon be a widow.” ***** @JDeragon People are now the engine of change and the [...]

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TweetIf you don’t make sense of the world for yourself, then you’re stuck with someone else’s world view. Personal knowledge management is not so much about creating knowledge but rather the development of conscious regular activities from which can emerge new knowledge. The knowledge artifacts created along the way are only as good as the [...]

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TweetJack Vinson asks: “Can anyone point me (and my friend) to some better resources around doing “competitive intelligence” by asking people within the company to work together to develop the intel?  I’ve pointed him to the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals.” I was introduced to CI by Conor Vibert about 10 years ago and I [...]

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TweetI had the recent pleasure of meeting Judith Holton, a colleague at Mount Allison University. Judith passed on a couple of papers which I found most interesting, as she has looked deeply into the theory behind the need for what I would describe as social learning networks. Judith uses the term, “fluctuating support networks”. In [...]

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