The headline example is from a hospital in the USA where a CCU specialist wrote down five things that doctors must do to avoid infection when they insert catheters into major veins.The advice includes basic things such as washing hands with soap and wearing sterile barrier clothing. The last time you bought groceries, did you take a shopping list with you? What What about when you moved house or packed for a trip or holiday; did you use a checklist?

Deep specialists are required all over organisations and their expertised networked and made accesible Learning Technologies is over for another year. I think I skipped a year so this is my first since 08. And I really enjoyed it for a number of reasons:

We now need to understand the learning motivation of employees as a function of a projected future identity -- be that as a lifelong company employee (in which case they will value learning experiences that maximize contributions to company strategic intent) or as an itinerant professional specialist, who moves from project to project and company to company as opportunities arise -- in which case they will be looking for learning that increases their expertise in areas with developing markets and opportunities. FROM TRAINING TO LEARNING IN THE NEW ECONOMY [1] Brigitte Jordan, Ph.D. Consulting Corporate Anthropologist email: jordan@akamail.com phone: 650 747-0155; fax: 650 747-0196 web site: www.lifescapes.org 1.