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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

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. Within that he then defined the following types of knowledge workers: Transaction Worker - Routine, individual, ex. call center.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Learning from Our Kids In my keynote, I mentioned a Fourth Grade Wikipedia Update. Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 How do you recommend we stay up-to-date with the changing technology? How does this apply to non-knowledge workers?

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia. The average knowledge worker has access to an increasingly large set of information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. How do we foster knowledge worker skills?

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

Just when did Mao Tse-tung change his name to Mao Zedong ? You see, facts are changing all the time, and very little appears to remain concrete. Being able to think critically and create a professional network will be the core competencies of the 21st Century knowledge worker. Then she was right, now she is wrong.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

ut I think it's fair to say that most every response expects the role of training to either diminish or to change significantly in the next 10 years. Supporting Concept Workers In The Future of the Training Department by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross, they discuss how work models are changing. Wikipedia does that for us.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Learning Light’s qualitative research indicates a change in the nature of how the learning and development or training budget is managed. The exponential growth of video-based content on the internet has become one of the greatest changes and challenges to how we live and learn. As a result, the new discipline of curation has emerged.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

Work Skills Changing Most of us who used to use these things know somewhat know that they really aren't in use anymore. In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update.