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Knowledge & Learning
01/18/2000
10/21/2003
Value generation continues to shift from hard, physical assets to intangible assets making it ever more imperative to lead in managing learning and knowledge processes. Practically all of business strategy in the innovation economy involves learning and knowledge, making it a diverse and challenging discipline. Those who succeed in understanding and integrating this assortment will be able to adapt faster, make decisions more systematically, confidently, and creatively, exploit markets before others recognize them, attract and retain customers more effectively, sustain existing lines of business while creating new options for growth.

Whether or not it makes sense for an organization to have a Chief Learning Officer (or a CKO), learning is now everyone’s responsibility. Fortunately, few executives need master every aspect of the subject but neither can anyone but themselves decide which aspects are relevant to them. In light of this, ManyWorlds gathers here an array of perspectives on learning and knowledge. You will find our evaluations of content on innovative technologies (“e-learning”, “executive dashboards”, analytics, “sensemaking”, simulations, decision-support tools, visualization of information), critiques of technocentric approaches (The Social Life of Information), novel channels for information delivery and learning, the role of cultural dynamics and organizational form (such as communities of practice, smart pilots, the role of leaders), input from best practice in negotiation and persuasion, and the cognitive and psychological aspects (individual and cultural biases and obstacles and how they might be managed).

We aim to assist you to grasp the context and vital connections between these complementary aspects of learning and knowledge through the combination of our editors’ expertise and the unique software infrastructure of this site which allows you to enlarge or narrow the context or to jump between pieces of content related to varying degrees of relevance. You might move from content on learning pioneers to cultural dynamics to psychological and communication factors; or from competitive intelligence to analytics to game theory or simulations.

ManyWorlds believes that effective learning and knowledge processes need to be strategically integrated across business processes and units. This can involve strategically innovative ways of leveraging intellectual capital, or the development of real-time learning (RTL) processes. (See the article Real-Time Learning: Revitalize Your Business through Everyday Work) Real-time learning enables learners to pull in current, analyzed, critiqued, filtered, relevant knowledge as they need it. We invite you to investigate our own value-generating ideas while exploring the knowledge network.

The Power of Pull
How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Basic Books published on 04/13/2010, rated by our experts.
The singular power of The Power of Pull is its ability draw together for us a whole array of recent trends and changes in perspectives into one cohesive metaphor. Hagel, Brown, and Davison help us more precisely tune into the signal emanating from the noise of what might otherwise remain for us... [read more...]
Using Knowledge Brokering to Improve Business Processes
McKinsey Quarterly published on 01/15/2010, rated by our experts.
Open-innovation principles can be applied not only to improve product innovation but also to enhance crucial internal business processes. The same Web-based technology that has facilitated the pairing internal “seekers” with external “solvers” is being used by some leading companies to boost process... [read more...]
How to Design Smart Business Experiments
Harvard Business Review published on 02/01/2009, rated by our experts.
You may have read something about evidence-based management (for instance, the 2006 article of that title by Pfeffer and Sutton). Thomas Davenport isn’t concerned here with challenging or validating fundamental concepts of business strategy, but his promotion of experimental tests in business could be... [read more...]
The Making of an Expert
Harvard Business Review published on 07/01/2007, rated by our experts.
Some people support their belief that genius-level expertise is more a matter of nature than of nurture by citing a few favored examples. The most common example, as the authors note, may be that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Upheld as a child prodigy with exceptional innate musical genius, the truth is... [read more...]
Crowd Sourcing – The new marketing paradigm
A viewpoint on it’s applicability within a corporate framework
Raj Chary published on 05/17/2007, rated by our experts.
We have seen many instances of “crowd sourcing” with companies such as Home Depot, Nikon – allowing consumers or potential consumers to participate in using company products and showcasing their experiences – a trend to better understand how a consumer reacts or acknowledges the viability of the product... [read more...]
Organization and Information Equilibrium
A tangent to information availability and applicability
Raj Chary published on 04/25/2007, rated by our experts.
Organizations are created within a company or enterprise to drive the focus of attention on attaining the business purpose. Business units are aligned with the goals and objectives of the company to address components such as: Finance, Audit and Taxation, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Information... [read more...]
Organizational Learning
A Center of Excellence perspective using Exploration and Exploitation techniques
Raj Chary published on 04/12/2007, rated by our experts.
One of the predominant ways we tend to seek knowledge is through exploiting resources (by hiring consultants, new technologies, corporate training and such). But we tend to forget that organizations are complex organisms. For an organization in this information age to grow and prosper, it must become... [read more...]
Engineering Principles for Rapid E-Learning
Chief Learning Officer published on 04/01/2007, rated by our experts.
Pat Alvarado has similar concerns to those informing another article in the same issue of Chief Learning Officer, “Running a Lean Learning Function.” That article considered the application of lean principles to learning, whereas Alvarado discusses the application of software engineering principles to... [read more...]
Capturing Tacit Knowledge
Line56 published on 02/14/2007, rated by our experts.
For organizations in the knowledge economy one of the major challenges must be to capture knowledge and experience and then convert them into tangible results. The ability to leverage knowledge depends on first o collecting it, understanding it, and clarifying it. As Michael Reingruber notes, we most... [read more...]
Senge’s Five Disciplines
The Deep Learning Cycle and the Architecture of the Learning Organization
ManyWorlds published on 10/05/2005, rated by our experts.
In order to learn, you have to change, and in changing you will learn. In the knowledge economy, companies and the individuals that comprise them must master the process of learning and changing. Companies and other institutions that succeed in this central challenge are “learning organizations”, which... [read more...]
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