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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

The underlying concept is that organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. There’s nothing new under the sun. You need to optimize participation in all of them.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. New and emerging embedded systems such as iBeacon might perform this kind of activity tracking, but might also be used to enhance communications across campus, and within communities of practice.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Clocks measure working hours instead of the sun. Railroads and communications links span the globe. 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.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Moderator (Harold Jarche): ADDIE cannot help develop emergent practices - they're in th efuture, not the past; no best practices to model. Is there an emerging model for social learning? Jenna Papakalos: Why is that? Cynan: yeah. Where do we start?

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

From there, the book can delve into ways to do that, for example Dare2Share, the SUN Learning Exchange, accessing just-in-time tips via Twitter, mobile podcasts, Cisco’s communities of practice, and so forth. A name for the category will emerge down the road. Our target is emergent. Then on to the next topic.

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Not Your Father’s ROI

Jay Cross

But like Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles, old-school ROI’s day in the sun is waning. In an environment of continuous flow and interaction, there’s a need to consider an emerging metric: return on investment in interaction (ROII). Business results as defined in the previous paragraph are not long behind.

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