Emerging Ways of Working
Jay Cross
JANUARY 6, 2014
I see this popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm… …except in corporate plans. Just Jay Working Smarter'
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Jay Cross
JANUARY 6, 2014
I see this popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm… …except in corporate plans. Just Jay Working Smarter'
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
Using mLearning and MOOCs to Understand Chaos, Emergence, and Complexity in Education , great paper from Inge De Waard. Clark Quinn will manage our back channel on Twitter. Jay’s MOOC bookmarks. 195 posts about MOOCs 14 articles on MOOCs. Jay’s take on Daphne Koller and Inge’s.
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Jay Cross
OCTOBER 12, 2012
The Singularity Summit, open to the public, is the premier event on robotics, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfacing, and other emerging technologies including genomics and regenerative medicine.
Jay Cross
JULY 17, 2012
Education is a self-organizing system and learning an emergent phenomenon. In this 90-second excerpt from his TED talk on new experiments in self-teaching , Sugata Mitra describes how children in a remote village taught themselves bio-engineering using the net.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
All that’s required is faith when you put things in, they will emerge where and how you want them to. Like walking across the street in Manhattan, it’s perfectly safe if you know what you are doing. You don’t need to see inside the cloud. Four years ago at the Expo 2.0 ” “At the Web 2.0
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
the emergence of network based, collaborative, social, informal and community-led approaches to learning) and Simulations & Serious Games (being able to seriously use these advanced learning tools at strategic scale). In the sixties I dreamed of visiting India but never made it. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 13, 2010
Accoding to Nonaka, “Ba can be thought of as a shared space for emerging relationships. About the Internet Time Lab. According to the theory of existentialism, Ba is a context, which harbours meaning. According to the theory of existentialism, Ba is a context, which harbours meaning. This space can be physical (eg.
Jay Cross
MARCH 6, 2012
assess opportunity by benchmarking against emergent practices of successful social businessesLay the foundation for transformation. Experience has taught us that making over a training department into a business learning function requires these activities: Sell the vision of learning as a value-creating component of social business.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 5, 2012
People who call our business phone line are asked to dial 911 if it is an emergency. No, when I try to call, I get the message “If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911… ” Rajmohan Singh. I have dial tone but get the “If this is an emergency” message. Tier2 – Sandra (sh5872).
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 23, 2011
What emerged was the Agile Software Development Manifesto.” “On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground and of course, to eat. ” Source.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
link] (see also entire special issue on Emergent Learning, Connections, Designs for Learning: [link]. Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education, International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), 12(7). Rodriguez (2011, November).
Jay Cross
JANUARY 24, 2013
bureaucracy-to-emergence. Interview with a Stooser, Julian Birkinshaw: Reinventing Management , by Steve Denning. The traditional top-down bureaucracy or “Planning” model—tight means, tight ends; e.g. McDonald’s. Science” model—tight means, loose ends: e.g. Arup, the international engineering consultancy. hierarchy-to-collective wisdom.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
These are necessary to not only do the work but to prepare for the work to be done: emergent practices.” In his next post , Harold wrote that “All three of these structures are united by networked and social learning. ” Yesterday Clark wrote about detailing the Coherent Organization.
Jay Cross
MAY 1, 2012
Today we all grapple with complexity’s outpouring of unpredictability, volatility, emergence, and uncertainty. Competitors are faster on their feet. Complexity theory used to be a riddle for scientists to tinker with. The tools for building and sustaining networks are at hand and are dirt cheap.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 12, 2010
What emerges next is anybody’s guess. Then we realized that everything is connected. Outcomes result from the interplay of complex adaptive systems. Butterfly effects, asymmetry, and self organization abound. It’s time to shed the delusion that we are in control. Logic is oversimplification.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
emergent behaviors — collective outputs of whole systems. Here’s lesson #1: Ants, cities, human brain, the economy, etc. Common properties: simple components (or agents) relative to entire system. components react in non-linear ways. no central point of control/self-organizing. My mind feels like it’s in slow-motion.
Jay Cross
APRIL 29, 2009
My friend Kevin Wheeler founded the Institute to provide a place for senior talent managers to converse and explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 21, 2010
Learning in 3D empowers forward-thinking executives, managers, faculty members, and training professionals to design, develop, and collaborate in the rapidly emerging field of 3D immersive environments. I haven’t read the book yet (maybe this weekend), but I’m intrigued by the way Tony and Karl are publicizing it.
Jay Cross
JUNE 28, 2011
Through the integration of these conversations with academic research and emerging business trends, we develop innovative business strategies and operational models. We are rethinking the Customer Service model and defining how to make the transition that will result in new levels of capability, capacity and loyalty.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
This year we created an interactive tool that links the data from these survey results and charts it to the emerging trends in Web 2.0 For the past three years , roughly 1,700 executives from around the world—across a range of industries and functional areas—have responded to a McKinsey survey on how organizations are using Web 2.0
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The growing inability of educational institutions to provide skilled workers for the demands of emerging markets puts immense pressure on traditional institutions for change. We foresee different ways for people to join the workforce, no longer the yes-no of employed or jobless. Think flexible workforce.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 11, 2010
Emerge, converge, and know.I Each node is linked to a scorecard that tallies the value of its exchanges. She uses the system map to spot bottlenecks and relationships that need improvement; managers need to focus on the white space between the nodes.
Jay Cross
JULY 3, 2011
Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models - Tony Karrer , June 22, 2011. MacKenzie Smith on open licenses for metadata - David Weinberger , June 8, 2011. Working Smarter eFieldbook $12 - Jay Cross , June 28, 2011. IBM’s Centennial - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , June 12, 2011. The Educational T - Dan Pontefract , June 27, 2011.
Jay Cross
APRIL 5, 2013
” Practical Knowledge deals with complex, unpredictable, unruly patterns that emerge in real life. Technical Knowledge deals with certainties and absolutes. In other words, it’s often theoretical and “not found in nature.” It is nature. Caveat emptor. This next part is speculation on my part.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 25, 2011
The Emergence of Cognitive Computing - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , November 5, 2011. From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg – scale matters - Donald Clark Plan B , November 11, 2011. Latest data: Retailers shift to social media and online - Ross Dawson , November 14, 2011. Bridging the gap: working smarter - Harold Jarche , November 20, 2011.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
EB escalates the importance of the topic: emotion + business = all of us performing honestly as our true selves emerge. That includes making allowances for personal baggage. We’re all in this together. It takes trust to tango. It’s the make or break discipline of social business. Business has shunned psychology for too long.
Jay Cross
MAY 11, 2008
The result — an emerging $11.4 . Corporate eLearning: Feeding Hungry Minds. eLearning: The birth of a vibrant industry , 7/2000 (Goldman Sachs) “Why corporate eLearning? Bearing this out, the number of corporate universities has grown four-fold to 1600 in the last ten years. Helping Investors Ride the eLearning Curve , 11/99. (US
Jay Cross
AUGUST 18, 2013
Intuitive knowledge is complex and hence unpredictable, inductive, volatile, and emergent. Since the emotional brain is much older and works faster than the logical brain, intuitive knowledge is the first to come to mind; the rational brain uses logic to weigh whether or not an intuitive response is valid or must be tempered.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
What happens is refinement, hypothesis-testing, looking for patterns, mapping, conversation, and reflecting on ideas and images that are emerging. The next phase is processing what I’ve found. I generally do my best synthesis while asleep.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Different designs, tools and functionalities of social learning networks will be evaluated.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 7, 2013
Aaron Silvers: “Emergence by SBJ would be my first pick on this subject. Aaron: +1 for New Culture of Learning, and for that record, I’ll toss in “Power of Pull” by JSB. . Connecting Inner Power with Global Change: The Fractal Ladder (Response Books) (9788132102212): Pravir Malik: Books.
Jay Cross
JULY 8, 2008
Tipping points typically emerge as a higher-level structure emerges as the result of the self-organizing interaction of otherwise uncoordinated lower-level elements. That's how a progress quantitative change suddenly produces a qualitative shift.
Jay Cross
MAY 22, 2013
Intuitive knowledge is complex and hence unpredictable, inductive, volatile, and emergent. Since the emotional brain is much older and works faster than the logical brain, intuitive knowledge is the first to come to mind; the rational brain uses logic to weigh whether or not an intuitive response is valid or must be tempered.
Jay Cross
MARCH 21, 2012
This is social business. Informal learning thrives here. Make your social networks thrive. Get your mobile learning strategy together. Big Data (Structured & data-driven).
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Future of Talent is a community of talent executives from major corporations who meet once a year to explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development. Yesterday we finished a three-day retreat in Tiburon, California.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 11, 2009
As people use various different web sites to blog, update their status, post their location, or photos, sites and tools have emerged to aggregate these various actions into a continuous eclectic stream of activities. Tumblr operates similarly although it does a better job displaying photos and is a bit more spartan.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
David describes leadership as an emergent property of an organizational network. There are no isolated ideas; there never were; there are only webs of ideas. We can improve those webs through open access, good filters, metadata, linking everything, and opening up institutions.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 21, 2008
track emerging opportunities in learning (if it’s not at the forefront, it’s not allowed in). discuss things you don’t find at commercial conferences (we’re indie). take part in an event that’s 100% free (because the web scales). join sessions anywhere with net access (this is entirely online).
Jay Cross
MARCH 19, 2012
When the environment is complex: the relationship between cause and effect can only be perceived in retrospect, but not in advance, the approach is to Probe – Sense – Respond and we can sense emergent practice. Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices.
Jay Cross
MARCH 22, 2009
Instead of group think, we can evolve a capacity for emergent pattern recognition and decision-making. What if life itself is a pattern recognizer? What would this imply? Group think (with the pressure for answers) vs. keeping ourselves honest. Q&A was extensive and all over the map.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
But I get this precognition, this flash-forward to a moment far in the future when your little girl Jane, having left her comfortable home, wakes up to a world where Bianca is her enraged meter maid, or the passport clerk Jane counts on for her emergency ticket out of the country, or the strange lady who lives next door.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 31, 2013
The The knowledge gained is an emergent property of all sense-making activities. HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013. Pushing and Pulling Tacit Knowledge . ‘Sense-making is where the real personal value of PKM lies. In the PKM framework of Seek, Sense, Share it is often sense-making that is most difficult to master.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 16, 2011
Agilent’s future is in emerging markets; that’s where the growth is and Agilent aims to outgrow the market. .” Agilent relentlessly surveys customers. Leaders are rated red-yellow-or-green on such things as speed to opportunity and customer orientation. Patience is a virtue. “Finance destroys organizations.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 18, 2010
Then read When The New Yorker Probes the Decline Effect, An Opportunity Emerges to Rethink Science Education. We should be incorporating his thinking in our approach to all of educational reform, not just how people learn science. See The Mysterious Decline Effect in Lehrer’s blog, The Frontal Cortex, on Wired.
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