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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.

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Mobile as Main Mode

Clark Quinn

As I was booking my travel to San Diego for the eLearning Guild’s mLearning conference, mLearnCon (June 15-17), I thought about a conference focusing on mobile learning versus the regular, full, elearning conference or even a full training conference (congrats to Training magazine pulling a phoenix). And that’s the point.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

We'll break them down below: Training and development Internal mobility Employee assignments Succession planning Recruitment Staff retention. It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. So, how does an employee skills database benefit your business?

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

Internal mobility. Internal mobility. It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. The way a skills catalogue benefits internal mobility is similar to how it benefits your employee assignments. Internal mobility. Recruitment.

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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?

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M-learning: What's the big deal?

Clive on Learning

Just released is the eLearning Guild’s new report, Mobile Learning: The Time Is Now , put together by Clark Quinn, who really knows his stuff on this topic. Before that, the very idea of mobile learning was a bit bizarre. Their jobs are inherently mobile. If Clark says the time is now, it probably is. Now you can.

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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.

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