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Avoid firefighting with Structured Problem Solving

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Avoid firefighting with Structured Problem Solving. But what if the problem keeps recurring despite your efforts to patch and mend the process? You might find that you have fixed the problem five or six times and at that stage you must reassess, if time is indeed money, then you’ve wasted quite a lot of it.

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. More about me here.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Essentially, the U.S. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

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How will organizations get them to adopt new business processes, procedures, or software systems when necessary? Workers have to solve problems on the fly. View all posts by Jon → ← Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise Learning? Won’t it be difficult to ‘corral’ all these creative thinkers?

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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The problem, though, is that many primary schools are still geared to teach in ways that would be more or less recognizable to students from thirty years ago. Providing training to them in a way that reflects their preferred way of learning is a challenge that no company can afford to ignore. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.