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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. Going forward, optimal execution is only the cost of entry and continual innovation will be the only sustainable differentiator. This puts a huge emphasis on innovation.

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Employee Empowerment—How It’s Done and Why You Should Care

Vitalyst

One of the ideas Drucker was talking about in that piece, and in his many previous published works, was empowerment as a management strategy. Treating knowledge workers as assets means giving them what they need to be productive and innovative—that is, providing them with autonomy, or empowering them. They must have autonomy.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

Instead, we need to make sure everyone understands what the overall goal is, and have them work together to achieve it. This is a redefinition of learning as performance, incorporating problem-solving, innovation, creativity, design, research, and more. We need to tap into the collective intelligence of the entire organization.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

As Learning and Development (L&D) makers, we compete for talented employees, their effort, and time. But managers and HR departments tend to operate from a perspective of fear, convinced that employees can only complete work if they’re supervised in an office. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D.

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Work Literacy Skills - New Workshop

Tony Karrer

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Complexity, or maybe our appreciation of it, has rendered the world unpredictable, so the orientation of learning is shifting from past (efficiency, best practice) to future (creative response, innovation). RESPOND: Support the work; Connect people; Share experiences; Develop tools. Inverting the Pyramid.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

I was coincidentally walking by a presentation by Clive Shepherd on the exhibits floor at Learning Technologies in London when he happened to flip my photo and a quote on the screen. Also gave session entitled Under the radar great technologies that you could be using. Articles: The future is people, not technology. Management.