article thumbnail

Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

article thumbnail

Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

I was also struggling for clients who needed very simple learning tracking but with some customizations. For example my search for an LMS Solution for Simple Partner Compliance Training didn’t really arrive at just the right solution. Marketplace LMS solutions don’t quite fit. Neither do more complex solutions. Top eLearning Sites?

article thumbnail

Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. We like to think knowledge workers spend all day "problem-solving" but in reality they spend all day finding out what procedure should be followed in what situation.

article thumbnail

Study: Enhanced Employee Development Needed in 2013

CLO Magazine

Employees must work differently to survive where frequent organizational change, knowledge work and increased collaboration are the norm. • Reorient Managers to Guide and Empower Knowledge Workers : Focus managers on removing complications that arise in a less routine, more ambiguous work environment.

Study 77
article thumbnail

Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. It’s going to cause us to think about models in very different ways such as how Intuit has Outsourced Training to Customers. Work Event? And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this. Learning Event?

article thumbnail

Share Best Practices - Patterns

Tony Karrer

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. In particular, highly skilled workers demonstrate the ability to reflect-inaction (Schön, 1987), to conduct mental simulations as a way of imagining possible outcomes.

Pattern 100