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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Effectiveness, Chief Learning Officer magazine, June 2013. Snow wrote an essay describing the “two cultures, whose thesis was that ‘the intellectual life of the whole of western society’ was split into two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems.

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How companies can Improve their Talent Development and employee retention

Matrix

As such, a vital part of your ongoing management and human resources (HR) strategy needs to be focused on effective talent development. This provides them with practical and theoretical skillsets to help them become effective and innovative corporate contributors. This is not just an investment in skills, though.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

But when you couple it with other tools , analyses and planning activities , your inventory becomes invaluable for effective decision-making for your business strategy, especially when your skills database is consistently updated over time. In a vacuum, a skills inventory is just that: A catalogue of skills present in your organisation.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

But when you couple it with other tools , analyses and planning activities , your inventory becomes invaluable for effective decision-making for your business strategy, especially when your skills database is consistently updated over time. In a vacuum, a skills inventory is just that: A catalogue of skills present in your organisation.

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Social Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

Origin Learning

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Such being the scenario, every dime counts, right? billion annually?

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

“People think of quality as a constraint that creates an environment where innovation is not possible,” and yet “there’s a continuing demand for more products that are more cost effective,” she said. A nurturing innovation environment requires explicit skills, ongoing facilitation, leadership and a welcoming culture.

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

The aversion in our culture to asking creative questions is also linked to an emphasis on finding quick fixes and an attachment to black/white, either/or thinking. The black and white approach worked when work processes were simple, linear, could be standardized, and yesterday’s best practices still worked just as fine today.