ID Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2015

We are well aware that to survive and thrive in the VUCA world, we need to be agile in all respects – in learning, towards change, regarding work as well as life. We talk about learning agility, organizational agility, individual agility, agile as a philosophy and much more. I wholeheartedly agree with him.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2014

davegray has all 60 or so interviews for his new book, "Principles of Agility," up on @YouTube. Talk about open. Delight2014 "I want you to think about storyLISTENING. It''s way more important than storyTELLING. Empty your mind and listen." davegray #delight2014. learning pkm Twitter'

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Shorter and shorter production cycles, demanding and informed customers, and increasingly interconnected and complex work require workers who are agile and adept at picking up new skills, are willing to experiment, and can learn quickly from failures. And these cannot happen when employees work in silos or as individuals.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2013

On the surface, it's a software development and consultancy firm, best known for bringing Agile to the world of s/w development. My fellow ThoughtWorkers will know why this took me months and why it's perhaps one of the toughest decisions I have ever taken. But this post is for those who don't know ThoughtWorks. But that's only the surface.

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ID Reflections

MAY 10, 2010

Rethinking the Role of Business Analysts: Towards Agile Business Analysts? A BA’s role today seems to be as volatile and evolving as an ID’s. Some relevant reads: i. What is a Business Analyst? Duties of a Business Analyst iii. Is Instructional Design a specialized function? If yes, in what? They seem to be doing a whole lot of things.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2019

Top down, hierarchical, command and control organizations just do not have the agility or the resilience to meet the needs of today. As the world becomes increasingly connected and networked, it calls for organizations that are equally connected, decentralized and self-organizing.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

It soon became a buzzword but also showed organizations the path to survival, a way to remain on top of things, to face complexity with agility, to meet cusotmer demands with inovation. Powered by enterprise2.0 tools and technology, laden with social media tools and apps, fueled by the Pods and the Pads, social business burst upon the scene.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The scope of salvaging the situation: Rapid Prototyping If the designer happens to follow the Iterative/Agile methodology and believes in rapid prototyping, then everything is not lost. Branching 1.1

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ID Reflections

MAY 22, 2015

Perhaps most importantly however is that is the key to unleashing agility using digital networks as it automatically collects institutional knowledge and critical methods, makes on-boarding new employees much easier, and frees up your knowledge to work for the organization continuously while still ensuring your contribution is recognized.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Gartner has recognized CoPs as one of the five best practices for increasing organizational agility. CoPs deliver unique benefits to an organization. The peer-to-peer environment of CoPs fosters employees’ natural trust in advice from someone in their situation. It also encourages emotional as well as instructional support.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Being learning agile is the only way to move forward. However, if we can begin by shifting how we think and see our role against the broader business canvas, it''s a good start. And we can''t forget that we are operating in the VUCA world. future_of_work L&D Workplace Learning'

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Working out loud and knowing how to learn in a connected world are important to remain learning agile which includes learning from one''s networks, sharing and co-creating. The skills highlighted in the diagram are precisely what learners (workers) need to successfully participate in a MOOC and thrive in this complex, shifting, digital world.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

To quote Charles Darwin: It is becoming evident that be it organizations or individuals, those who are adaptive, agile, and open to learning are the ones who will survive. The moot point is that we have no choice but to change how we do things.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2014

But I do believe that if organizations can foster an environment that: Promotes trust Celebrates openness and transparency Encourages trying and failing rather than “who made this mistake” outlook Perceives individuals as individuals, and bans the use of words like “resources” to refer to people Believes in some form of the directive that governs agile (..)

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

When fully realized and supported, emergent learning provides autonomy, mastery and purpose to learners and agility, adaptability and resilience to organizations. It leverages the powers of networks and social platforms, and the affordances of mobile and cloud to build an interconnected and continuously learning organization.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Given this VUCA world, it is imperative for and incumbent on all of us to remain learning agile and relevant. It’s not natural for me to post whatever I want to say or think online. What are some of the compelling reasons that will make me do so? A distributed workforce requires a digital platform for connect.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2011

The following image depicts what typically happens: Image taken from: The Agile Warrior This pain is one of fragmentation because the tools, methods, and approaches used are more suited for “tame” problems—what Cynefin framework slots as simple or, maybe, complicated at the most. It also requires adaptive thinking abilities.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

We have to think agile, instant, accessible, contextual, micro-sized, real time… We need to uberize organizational learning. Agility and pull lie at the heart of uberization. Let’s pause a bit and think what this would mean to the L&D world in any organization. Users – with a single tap on the app – can get a ride.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

The new age of work requires novel and emergent skills, people with learning agility, and organizations that will enable and empower their employees. MOOCs may possibly herald a more agile and mobile working & learning methods, global collaboration and a changing relationship with knowledge.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Quoting from Communication on Agile Software Projects Why is communication an issue worth discussing? Integration time and everyone is excited for that first look.!!! Mr. BA and team thinks it's ummm.ok.and shows it to Mr. Perfecto. Mr. Perfecto is less than pleased. And our CEO. Communication failure!!!

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Know how to build one''s PLN Workplace challenges are increasingly going to be unique requiring skills like analysis, problem solving, learning agility, adaptability, pattern sensing and exception handling; therefore, instilling the skills of “learning how to learn” is of paramount importance.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I am happy to note that even small changes do have a big impact -- on health, mental and physical agility, and general well-being. This year, I have committed to taking up exercising not as a separate activity but instead integrating it into my lifestyle.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2015

Agile and adaptable - Agility here is more than just adapting to change. Agility in this context encompasses the skill of being able to scan the landscape and ecosystem of one's domain of work, keep pace with what is happening at the edges, and evolve to remain relevant. And along with it comes "collaborative learning".

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ID Reflections

JUNE 12, 2015

The future will be driven by learning agility, effectiveness, and process innovation. A growth mindset and learning agility ensure that we are able to course-correct and keep developing skills that can be augmented by a machine but not completely automated. How can workers become self-driven learners?

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

joyandlife writes about The Changing Role of L&D and CLO where he mentions a daptiveness, r apid reaction times, learning agility and f lexibility as key requirements. The role of the CLO will be to drive this change NOW! In fact, L&D teams should ideally be the initiator of the change before the deluge hits the org.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 27, 2015

They are learning agile, embraces change and are not afraid to put themselves out there. They have the ability to build strong networks -- both internal and external to the organization and believes in the power of collaborations and cooperation.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 6, 2015

It is characterized by agility and adaptability in learning , in the ways we work, and avoiding the "this is the way it is done here" syndrome. And we have to become comfortable holding such conversations in the online world. Courage Zone This perhaps tops it all.

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