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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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LearnTrends 2009 – Free Online Conference

Tony Karrer

George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce our third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. Some ideas: Post about it on your blog.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Yet innovative pedagogy in higher education is not prevalent, and academics are generally reluctant to change their methods. The guardians of this knowledge are the academics.

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Myths, Questioning, Implementation 2.0, Literacy, & Innovation

Big Dog, Little Dog

Though an alluring idea, the "ten percent myth" is so wrong it is almost laughable, says neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Today's collaborative technologies can knit together an enterprise and facilitate knowledge work in ways that were simply not possible previously. Fact or Fiction?:

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

Vitalyst

For that, he argued, organizations must view and treat knowledge workers as “assets” rather than “costs.” One of the ideas Drucker was talking about in that piece, and in his many previous published works, was empowerment as a management strategy. Knowledge Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge,” by Peter F.

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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. A lot of people who are concept workers use Google every day and have no idea that the ~ operator even exists.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

We complain that we don’t have enough time or can’t find the right talent within realistic travel of the office, and yet we’re not taking advantage of how technology continues to shrink the virtual space separating us. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D. Scalable/targeted workforce.