The Learning Layer – Review
The Learning Layer: Building the next level of intellect in your organization , begins with some solid insights on how learning is the key to performing in the networked workplace. Learning has been the traditional realm of HR while most systems are supported by IT. This means that HR supports the people who produce the tacit knowledge while IT supports the systems that store the explicit knowledge . Steve Flinn, the author, uses the analogy of knowledge as stock and learning as flow . An organization’s intellectual capital is a factor of both, which “makes it really clear just how inseparable the management of a business’s knowledge is from the learning processes”. The proliferation of current web technologies now presents us with two major opportunities: The knowledge and …

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Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Some thoughts: As we learn in digital networks, stock (content) gets smaller, while flow (conversation) gets longer – the challenge becomes how to continously weave the many bits of information and knowledge that pass by us each day. The challenge for educators and organizations...
I became interested in knowledge management (KM) as I was introduced to it in the mid 1990’s while practising instructional systems design (ISD) and human performance technology (HPT) in the military. In the late 1990’s knowledge management was part of our solution suite at the Centre for Learning Technologies ( CLT via The Wayback Machine)....
Paul makes an excellent comment to my article on social learning in the enterprise that Jon Husband kindly posted for me on the FASTForward Blog: I see the critical aspect to social learning to be ‘diffusion’. Knowledge ‘flows’ at specific speeds, and complex, technical details have high viscosity. Some nodes are efficient at in-flow (fast...
Scott Leslie and I agree on many things, so when he posted the following, I wanted to make sure I had not missed something in my own thinking: With Canada’s GDP at 69% services and stock indexes like the S&P at over 80% intangible valuation, I would say that much of our economy is no longer based on physical capital. The means of production...
Tim Kastelle (a great source of knowledge on innovation) discusses how it’s better to have a good idea than a large network to fire off any old idea. Good ideas have better acceleration. This is an important innovation lesson as well. We don’t need more ideas, we need better ideas. In many ways this is a stock and flow problem …
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In knowledge work (2004) I commented on how Lilia Efimova described the main uses of blogs for knowledge work: personal knowledge repositories, learning journals, or networking instruments. Another point in Lilia’s paper is that knowledge work is “discretionary behavior”, in that knowledge workers have to be motivated to do knowledge...
In yestserday’s New York Times, Gretchen Morgenstern explained one reason Why All Earnings Are Not Equal . Corporate managers have lots of elbow room as to whether an item is an expense or an investment, and some push the limits of discretion. More puzzling to me is why businesses are not permitted to account for social capital (such as...
Not only is e-mail where knowledge goes to die (according to Luis Suarez ) but PDF’s are where entire articles go to die. This is a re-publication of an article I wrote that was originally published in April 2006 for ADETA , but is no longer available on their website. Considering the subject matter, and my comment that was published with the...
Trust Agents by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith could also be called the Miss Manners Guide to Social Media . For long-time bloggers and heavy social media users there is not a lot that’s new here but it’s still an interesting read. What I really like about the book are the various recommendations on how to behave online. Not …
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I have to admit that I enjoyed reading through Create your own blog by Tris Hussey . The subtitle, 6 easy projects to start blogging like a pro, did not attract me initially but the book is well written, covers a lot of ground and is quite helpful. The first three chapters cover the basics and then there are sections on personal blogs, business...
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