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How to Define & Build Effective R&D Capability in Your Organisation 

Acorn Labs

Step 3: Define the outcome Lastly, we wrap the capability up in a bow and stick a name tag on it. Capability gap assessments evaluate, you guessed it, the gap between the level of competency employees perform a capability to compared to the standard they need to meet in their current or a future job role.

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How to Define & Build Effective R&D Capability in Your Organisation 

Acorn Labs

Step 3: Define the outcome Lastly, we wrap the capability up in a bow and stick a name tag on it. Capability gap assessments evaluate, you guessed it, the gap between the level of competency employees perform a capability to compared to the standard they need to meet in their current or a future job role.

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Harvesting Learning’s Fruit: A Downstream Training Investment

Living in Learning

Relevant communities of practice or interest are excellent venues to accomplish both push and pull of relevant information that supports knowledge retention and serves as fertile ground for the ultimate reward of harvesting knowledge and best practices that otherwise would remain locked in the heads and hearts of top performers.

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The Importance of Learning Technologies

CLO Magazine

A second important learning technology is a learning content management system (LCMS) which allows content to be easily tagged, assembled, and reused. The vendor will also organize the data from online class evaluations. Used in this way, portal technology increases the efficiency of the LMS.

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Facilitating Learning

Clark Quinn

There’s problem-solving, experimentation and evaluation, and more. This happens naturally among communities of practice, and so for much of organizational learning, creating an environment where this can happen around organizational goals is really the ‘informal learning’ Jay Cross talked about in his book on the topic.

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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

Building on the concept of communities of practice , Etienne Wenger (2009) has proposed a social theory of learning. The focus of this theory is “learning as social participation,” in which learners actively participate in the practices of social communities and construct personal identities in relation to these communities.

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Role of a Learning Consultant: Insightful discussion imported from LinkedIn

ID Reflections

select custom-built courseware, provide post-training support, measure learning effectiveness, create mentoring/coaching frameworks, create frameworks that enable community-driven learning, and create and sustain Communities of Practice. 4) Evaluate the plan. Gather and compile this information for reporting purposes.