ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

It is understood that an organization’s ability to innovate and creatively solve problems are its competitive edge in today’s economy. However, before I ramble on, I want to clarify that this is not a book review. I want to highlight a few concepts from the book that impact how we think of learning and expertise.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 8, 2016

And those that enable such communities will innovate and thrive in the VUCA world. Often, an overly narrow focus can be detrimental to innovation and can lead to missed opportunities. The success of the project will signify success for the team. Yet, it is during the most challenging times that we need to see beyond the obvious.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Over the next two decades we can expect the knowledge of the world to be digitalised, with an exponential rise in user-generated content, "wise-crowd" application and open innovation applications." Loss of Innovation Diverse thoughts and ideas will be lost through lack of conversation and connect 4. Some questions I keep asking myself.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

It is now common knowledge that an organization’s ability to innovate is its competitive edge in today’s economy. Innovation itself is a term that requires some unpacking. For example, it could be used to mean blue ocean thinking or innovation by combining the already existing in an entirely novel, unforeseen manner.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 27, 2010

I was reading the white paper “ The Art of Powerful Questions : Catalyzing Insight, Innovation and Action by Eric E Vogt, Juanita Brown, and David Isaac. It is no longer a viable option in a culture that requires innovation, conversation and collaboration to move ahead, to make sense of the chaos, to see the emerging patterns in the change.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

There was scant time to design courses to address needs that evolved from moment to moment, that was undefined, needed creative solutions, and innovative daring. My interest in social business expanded beyond the by now well-defined benefits of reduced time to market, increased scope for innovation, customer engagement, and such.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I got to learn from the experts – individuals who were charting the path and devising ways to use the tool as an avenue for learning, sharing and innovating – building a strong global community of learning professionals. In hindsight I realize how immensely lucky I was to have stumbled onto the learning network I did. I lurked and waited.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It is up to us--L&D professionals--to connect learning and collaboration to business goals like customer satisfaction, efficient troubleshooting, innovative design ideas, reduced production time, and such. Business cares only about the outcome. How can facilitating collaboration help the organization? And it has.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

John Deere , one of oldest industrial companies in the United States, relies on CoPs to drive innovation, efficiency, and lifelong learning by facilitating connections among knowledge workers. The peer-to-peer environment of CoPs fosters employees’ natural trust in advice from someone in their situation.

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Jeremy Scrivens writes in his post, The Future of Work is Social Business at Scale , “…authenticity is not only the foundation of collaboration and innovation, it is the very experience of being well - being who you really are - Being! The assumption is that doing business is akin to waging war and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

To summarize, how does the Performance Support Solutions as we design them facilitate productivity and growth and innovation? In today's scenario change management is going to be the biggest challenge and will call for innovative measures--in business processes and training deliveries. When is Performance Support needed?

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ID Reflections

APRIL 14, 2011

I thought I would share my reading list of the last 6 months here.It's a random assortment but each one has expanded my thought-process in some way. Not all are related to learning or the workplace.This time, I came up with a list of 17.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2009

Tags: happiness choice diversity innovation.

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Wikipedia Diversity Training Flash Innovation 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The rigour of the format pushes one to be innovative, to keep asking the question "so what", allows for no flab in the content and no slackness in the storyline. The restraints force innovation. Does it hinder creativity? Not at all if one is willing to put in passion and hard work into the creation of one of these presentations.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Over the next two decades we can expect the knowledge of the world to be digitalised, with an exponential rise in user-generated content, "wise-crowd" application and open innovation applications. However, the truth is that most organizations find themselves eminently unprepared to meet this changing state of being.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2019

These lead to short term thinking, repeating of past patterns, loss of innovation, frustration and burnout, and a joyless work environment. However, the underlying business processes, managerial strategies, and workplace protocols still adhere to mechanistic, Industrial Era paradigms with performance, speed and bottom line being the drivers.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 2, 2009

Need to be innovative, to be cost and time effective 9. no longer seen as technological innovations but as tools of survival 12. A knowledge-driven economy 8. Survival instinct making us turn to tools and features available for free that can help us to keep ahead 10. Twitter, Facebook, Ning, etc., Features of Web 2.0

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Ning Diversity Training Social Learning Communities of Practice 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 13, 2011

But my point is not complexity in this post but the importance of spanning structural holes to help an organization become more responsive, adaptive, and innovative. A huge amount of organizational knowledge and innovation are lost because we fail to span structural holes or leave it to chance.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2010

I am more into books about learning and performance, training, design, creative thinking, innovation and management, writing, and the like. And I can see how if one truly gets involved in managing a project, it can be a challenging, innovative, analytical and highly satisfying task. also feel it could be addictive.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

Gurteen Knowledge Center : Knowledge Management, learning, creativity, personal development, innovation. Internet Time Group : Jay Cross Meta-Learning Lab : Dedicated to increasing people's capacity to learn and improve the performance of individual's and organizations.

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Informal Learning Resources Cognitive Social Networks 104

ID Reflections

MARCH 28, 2010

Tags: Drive Reading creativity Reflection innovation.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 8, 2010

The need for this is becoming acute as the output demanded to excel require greater innovative skills, creativity, and above all, SYNTHESIS. Books like Made to Stick , Switch , Naked Conversations , etc., that have become chart-busters are all about effective communication.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

What happens when speed and innovation are the keys to success? Diversity of thoughts and ideas are the best precursors to innovative and creative solutions. Training is essentially past focused preparing workers for known skills and bridging known knowledge gaps to meet known and defined goals.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

Such innovative knowledge worker is a "different beast" to use Jay's words. They work because they love what they do. They work to be involved in areas they can contribute best. However, when the work environment ceases to reward this passion , they fast lose interest. They are on the constant lookout for knowledge. They network to learn.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This kind of thinking is the enemy of innovation and creativity. When “relevant experience” implying the number of years an individual has worked in the same field and the knowledge thus accumulated comes to be viewed as sacrosanct, this is a danger signal. asking for relevant experience makes no sense.

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Have a sound grasp of theories: Linked to the previous point>> this puts a lot of pressure on learning professionals to constantly "innovate" and be the creator of sound instructional design. Be a social networker: Be good at networking and connecting with the "right" people because there is no way one can know everything.

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Skills Social Networks Big Question Theory 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 21, 2010

Tags: Reading Reflection innovation Design.

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Personal Personalization Privacy Search 144

ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

They must support an environment where continuous learning and innovation are the key differentiators. Today’s workers can no longer rest on their laurels and past success doesn’t necessarily imply future success as well. This is the world of work that L&D must support today. And this means reskilling for L&D as well.

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Roles Social Media OER Performance Support 167

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

While the formal organization facilitates systematic, process driven work, the informal enables innovation, learning, just-in-time information, productivity and quality improvement, improved job satisfaction. These informal meetings are part of the shadow organization that runs behind (under the radar of) every formal organization.

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Network Analysis Collaboration Social Networks 128

ID Reflections

APRIL 13, 2010

Tags: Trust Reflection innovation Collaboration communication.

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Trust Cornerstone Collaboration Attitudes 135

ID Reflections

MARCH 12, 2010

What this also means is being comfortable with less-than-perfect information, being able to envision the end without knowing each and every step in-between, being able to ADAPT as the project moves without going off-track, having a finger on the pulse and thinking innovatively.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2012

A constant state offlux will give rise to ambiguity, uncertainties and questions—all of which willexist in the form of tacit knowledge in the minds of people as they encounter realworld challenges, device innovative ways to deal with those, make mistakes andlearn from them.

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Trust Knowledge Social Business 154

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2011

By surfacing hidden gems, community managers enable users to make those serendipitous discoveries that could lead to breakthrough innovations, more engaged participation and a sense of commitment to the community. This skill cannot be automated and requires constant engagement with the community to develop.

Community 194

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ID Reflections

JULY 30, 2014

Training didn’t teach the meta-skills of learning nor did it foster the abilities for creative thinking, innovation and pattern sensing – all necessary 21C skills. The premise that one could be trained first and then put on-the-job was based on the ability to transfer explicit knowledge and tried and tested processes.

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ID Reflections

MAY 31, 2015

They have a defined vision that drives everything they do and every decision they take giving employees something bigger than themselves to strive toward as well as a sense of pride in belonging.

Roles 100

Roles Social Networks Community Diversity Training 100

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Perceptive leaders keen on facilitating collaboration and helping their teams and organizations move toward a collaborative mode of working, would do well to focus on these aspects.

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Knowledge iPod Collaboration Network 119

ID Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Diverse people connect who may “normally” not have known each other, creating greater opportunities for serendipity and innovation. They are usually aligned around a purpose larger than each individual; membership is usually voluntary which means people go where they are drawn to go.

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