In thinking about the benefits of adding social to formal learning for a presentation I’ll be giving, I realized that the main reason to extend social activities into formal learning is for the additional processing it provides.  While there is processing individually, social interaction provides more opportunities. MORE >>

Consultants Howard Smith and Peter Fingar shot back a month later with a paperback retort entitled  IT Doesn’t Matter – Business Processes Do. In 120 pages, Smith and Fingar skewer Carr, show why IT will matter more than ever, and explain how business process management creates riches. Activity-based certification. Peter Fingar. MORE >>

I reported a few days ago on a conversation with the authors , Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown, of the wonderful new book, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. So the children have their question honored and arrive at the proper answer by themselves. with our focus being more on scale and scope. MORE >>

But any advantage in costs or distinctiveness that companies gained in this way was usually short-lived, for their rivals adopted similar technologies and process improvements and thus quickly matched the leaders. Tacit activities are now a green pasture for improvement. Dont Count On It. The boss felt threatened. Posted by: steven e. MORE >>

Moderator (Clark Quinn): @marian embrace outliers: diversity breeds better outcomes (if you  manage the process right). Does anyone have examples of what they are doing? Holly MacDonald: ADDIE is a process, how it is applied can morph. Judy Muller: Intuit.great idea to implement active practice of it's core "customer focus". MORE >>