Harold Jarche

TweetWorking Smarter: What is it? Why do we need to do it? Working Smarter means integrating learning and working. We’re networking our society, our economy and our workplaces. This increases complexity because there are more connections between people, places and things. In complex systems, the link between cause and effect cannot be determined. Instead, we [...]

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TweetHere is a graphic of Moore’s technology adoption curve. Inspired by Jane Hart, this is my view of the current state of the learning technologies industry: The Late Majority and Laggards are focused on meeting their compliance needs. Many of these are in traditional industries. They are purchasing one of their first learning management systems [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: “We spend a billion dollars globally on training …. and what we get is worth shit.” From training to learning in the new economy (c. 1996) In a fundamental way, all work is about learning: it is about learning to fit in [...]

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TweetIn a succinct post on the nature of knowledge management in a knowledge-intensive field, Jasmin Fodil looks at how rocket scientists learn. She shows how workers at the NASA Goddard Space Fight Center reapply their knowledge: – Goddard is doing a pretty good job of knowledge sharing: The Knowledge Management life-cycle at Goddard seems solid [...]

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TweetPeople are now the engine of change and the fuel is communications, says Jay Deragon in Systemic Impact of Social Technology System outcomes can be influenced by numerous factors such as: Competitor innovation that attracts the market away from your business Cost of goods increases and margins shrink. You cut expenses to survive. Employee turnover [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: “We spend a billion dollars globally on training …. and what we get is worth shit.” From Training to Learning in the New Economy c.1996 Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation – Oscar Wilde; [...]

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TweetI was not able to attend any of the sessions at PLENK (Personal Learning Environments & Networked Knowledge)  2010, a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC), other than the one I facilitated on personal knowledge management.  PLENK 2010 was conducted by Stephen Downes, George [Clooney] Siemens & Dave Cormier, three fellow Canadians and two who live [...]

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TweetThis is the third part of my response. See Part 1: Corporate Learning’s Focus & Part 2: Integrating learning into the business. Inspired by Jay Cross, Amanda Fenton asks how her Corporate Learning department could better meet the needs of employees. I think these are excellent questions and the answers form the basis of addressing how to [...]

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TweetThis is the second part of my response. See Part 1: Corporate Learning’s Focus. Inspired by Jay Cross, Amanda Fenton asks how her Corporate Learning department could better meet the needs of employees. I think these are excellent questions and the answers form the basis of addressing how to integrate work and learning in the enterprise. [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. My piece “teamwork, real work and the wicked enterprise” on @cmswire – via @deb_lavoy Some problems are such complex, entangled, multifaceted hairballs that we cannot approach them alone. They change and morph as quickly as our ability to understand them. They are [...]

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