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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment

Tony Karrer

What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my Personal Knowledge Management system, and my day-to-day set of tools that enhance my knowledge worker productivity.

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Search - Implications on Knowledge Work

Tony Karrer

This post was sparked by a couple of recent articles: Babson Knowledge: How Google Plans to Change the Scope of Googling (And Why Information and Knowledge Workers Should Care). Desktop search via tools such as X1 will change your life. If the answer is "none". then get with it.

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Employee Empowerment—How It’s Done and Why You Should Care

Vitalyst

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. They have to manage themselves. They must have autonomy.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

A lot of it is thinking through where my thinking has changed over the course of the year. And a big part of the problem is just how many there are and how fast they change. This, of course, means some really big changes for authoring tools in the industry. And every year I use this as a Big Question – see: Learning 2010.

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ASTD TechKnowledge

Tony Karrer

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. How are we doing at keeping up with these changes? We will look over the shoulder of a modern knowledge worker using e-learning 2.0

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Study: Enhanced Employee Development Needed in 2013

CLO Magazine

The convergence of a sluggish economy, globalization and other challenges has fundamentally changed workplace dynamics and requires greater emphasis on development, a new study shows. Employees must work differently to survive where frequent organizational change, knowledge work and increased collaboration are the norm.

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