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Disruptive Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Disruptive innovation has become a very popular notion about competition and organizational change. Which is why disruptiveness—a quality once associated with children who couldn’t control themselves in school—has become the measuring stick of promising business ideas. It’s not more than that. It doesn’t explain change.

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Becoming a Social Business – Beyond Culture Change

Learnnovators

Over the past few years, the need to become a social business and to promote enterprise-wide collaboration have taken hold in many organizations. Currently, our management discourse is permeated by the language of two metaphors – the military and the manufacturing. In this context, I had a bit of an epiphany. The words become reality.

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Putting to good use the 5S Kaizen model in L&D

Matrix

Widely used in Japan across many industries, it is a key management strategy used in manufacturing to improve productivity and standardization. The term was created after World War 2, when Japan experienced its extraordinary economic boom, becoming the second-largest economy globally. In manufacturing, Seiso is “house cleaning”.

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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Manufacturers compete for market share and for talent. Retail businesses compete for space and for customers. Airbnb is shaking up the hospitality industry. A learning culture isn’t a program; it’s all of these things and more.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Purpose of Business is Learning. Yes, the purpose of business is to make a profit, retain customers, be sustainable, satisfy shareholders, and, for some, make a difference in the community. But none of this is possible without learning. Companies must learn more deeply about their customers and markets.

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What to Look for in a Learning Management System (LMS) for Manufacturing Training

Convergence Training

Others are specially designed to help organizations in specific industries or even departments in specific organizations. There’s no one learning management system that’s the best fit for all organizations. Convergence Training are manufacturing and industrial maintenance training experts.

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Lifelong Learning: Help Businesses Thrive and Keep Employees Engaged

Aptara

Lifelong Learning: Help Businesses Thrive and Keep Employees Engaged. How a learning-conducive environment at the workplace can help businesses magnetize and nurture talent in today’s world. Across various industries today, most companies are facing an acute skills shortage. Consider these stats….