Recent article on Execution as Learning
You may want to read the recent HBR article by Amy Edmondson on Execution as Learning, which is building on elements of the thinking of Argyris c.s....
Value of Learning Culture
What is the value to organizations in creating a learning organizational culture?
How can organizations work towards creating this culture through its HRM/HRD strategies?...
Learning Organization & TQM
The relationship between learning organization and Total Quality Management (TQM) is cause-and-effect. Learning is an intended outcome of TQM, TQM can be a vehicle for organizational learning and the ...
Organizational Learning from Failures: The Return on Failure Ratio
Over the last decades, innovation and creativity have become critical skills for achieving success. A 2015 Boston Consulting Group survey indicated that a key obstacle to business innovation and growt...
Informed Decisions in Rapid Change
If organizations have to make informed decisions in rapid change, then what kind of organizational learning process should we use?...
The Value of Contextual Awareness in Organisation Learning
I think that even though learning by experience, though execution of similar projects, will be a valuable asset in solving problems of our current project under execution, it boils down to learning ab...
Implementing Organizational Learning
I appreciate the concept of organizational learning. Its operationalization has been a problem. Many times it has been reduced to the training function in the organization.
Indeed people have que...
Imperatives of Organisation Learning Types
Kurt Lewin's model of unfreezing, moving & refreezing would further reinforce the points put forward by Prahalad, Hamel & Dodgson above.
Single loop learning has managerial imperatives; Double loop ...
Best Practices to Sustain the Impact of Learning in Organisations
Training and development are a critical factor in organizational development. However, how can we sustain the impact of learning within organizations; in other words, what best practices exist to ensu...
The Focus of Organizational Learning Departments Has to Change
Organizations have to change and have to become better at changing.
As a result, the way of working of the Organizational Learning Department (OLD) should no longer be to just take requests and p...
Applications and Usages of Organisational Learning
In what forms is organisation learning applied in the various organisations? I'm trying to create a list of the main ways how organizational learning can be applied. Thanks......
Why Apply Organizational Learning in Organizations?
Organizational learning is a social process, involving interactions among many individuals leading to well-informed decision making.
An organization must learn so that it can adapt to a changing ...
The Goals of Organization Learning are Changing
Organizations have to change and not only that - they have to become better at it. This means the goals of organizational learning must also change.
How do You Measure Organizational Learning?
In a learning organization, how do you go about measuring organizational learning?
Or is the learning organization just a myth or a brand?
I would like to get feedback from you all. Thanks!...
Effective Knowledge Sharing, Pitfalls to Avoid, Knowledge Management Implementation According to Chris Collison, there are seven common barriers or syndromes that hinder effective knowledge sharing and se...
Positive Effects of Age Diversity on Company Productivity and (Tacit) Knowledge Sharing
Tacit Knowledge Transfer, Organizational Learning, Incentive Management Backes-Gellner and Veen (2013) outlined the main advantages of having a diverse workforce within a company. The followin...
How to Identify and Map Knowledge
Knowledge Identification, Knowledge Capturing, Knowledge Storage In his article Knowledge Mapping: The Essentials for Success, Wesley Vestal provides following six tips to identify an...
Capturing Learned Lessons
How to Capture Organizational Learning? Best Practices Knowledge from bad and good experiences will lead you and your organization to better future performance. You can improv...
Critical Activities to Build a Learning Organization
Implementing Organizational Learning, Best Practices Learning organizations are distinguished because they are undertaking certain activities to foster the internal learning...
The Relationship between Organizational Learning and Performance
Tensions and Remedies In a paper by Sara J. Singer and Amy C. Edmondson of HBS, the complexities of the relationship between learning and perf...
Key Behaviors of Innovative Organizations
Innovation Management, Culture Change, Organizational Change, Innovative Culture, Organizational Culture Many large-scale attempts to make organizations more innovative are experiencing organizational inertia, barriers and/or...
How to Become a Self-tuning Enterprise: Advanced Experimenters
Organizational Agility, Strategic Agility, Real Options, Emergent Strategy In an HBR article of June 2015, Reeves, Zeng and Venjara argue there's a new way to apply algorithmic principles that en...
How Culture Levels Explain Failures in Organizational Learning and Innovation
Improving Organizational Learning, Organizational Innovation, Changing Organization Cultures Schein (as cited by Bertagni et al., 2010) tries to elaborate on the question why organizational innovations often fail ...
Additional Definitions of Organizational Learning
Organizational Learning There is still a great deal of disagreement on what constitutes organizational learning. Most scholars view organization...
What are Smart Creatives? Traits
R&D, Product Development, Service Development, Strategy, Innovation, HR, Career Management To accommodate the strategic demands of the internet age, clever, creative knowledge workers are needed in product/servi...
Generating New and Useful Ideas in Innovation: Avoiding the Primal Mark
Innovation, Creativity, Organizational Innovativeness, Lateral Thinking, Out of the Box Thinking, Avoiding Anchoring In today's dynamic environment, to stay competitive continuous innovations and new ideas are important. For a creative i...
Knowledge Management Scope
Knowledge Management, Level of Know-how Research by Deishin Lee (HBS) and Eric Van den Steen (MIT) shows that recording mediocre know-how can actually be counte...
Components of Learning Agility
Organizational Agility, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management One of the critical factors for achieving organizational agility is learning agility, which refers to the ability and ea...
Knowledge Management Focal Point
Knowledge Management Focus Research by Deishin Lee (HBS) and Eric Van den Steen (MIT) shows that information about successes is typically more usef...
Models, Implementation, Overview, Examples An extensive presentation explaining both the concept of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning by H. Gundogan...
How to Improve Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge-intensive Organizations
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing Motivation, Knowledge Sharing Platform. Tacit Knowledge This presentation elaborates on the concept of knowledge sharing, thereby focusin on a knowledge-intensive organization ...
Learning Agility and Enterprise Agility
Organizational Agility This presentation provides insights into the usage of organizational agility in your organization. The presentation incl...
Knowledge Management Systems Architecture
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Systems, Knowledge Architecture This presentation is about knowledge development and management, including the following sections:
1. Overview
2. Know...
Introduction to Knowledge Management: Foundation Principles and Building Concepts
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Learning Organization 1. What is Knowledge?
1. What is Knowledge Management? Definition
2. Knowledge Foundation Principles and Building Conc...
Learning from Rare Experiences
Organizational Learning Paper by Charles E. Eesley and Edward B. Roberts explores the conditions under which learning occurs from small samples ...
Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital
Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning Presentation about organizational knowledge, learning and intellectual capital. The presentation includes the following ...
Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm
Organizational Learning Paper by Bart Nooteboom presents elements of a cognitive theory of the firm, from the perspective of embodied cognition....
Organizational Learning: Single Loop Learning, Double Loop Learning and Triple Loop Learning
Organizational Learning - Single loop new learning is about following the rules while trying to correct a problem.
- Double loop learning could...
Professor Evans Explains Why Fast Change Requires New Ways of Learning and Thinking
Action Learning, Coping with Change, The Need of Change, The Need for New Ways of Learning In this historic video Action Learning Professor Reg Evans shows that it is very important to understand that today's ra...
How to Integrate Internal Organizational Knowledge with External Online Communities
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Interaction, Knowledge in Organizations Due to many online and web-based technological developments in todays digital economy, sharing knowledge in online comm...
Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Learning through Communities of Practices
Knowledge Sharing, Organizational Learning, Communities of Practices, Special Interest Groups Knowledge management in Communities of Practice (CoPs)
This presentation is about organizational learning and knowledge...
Three Levels of Knowledge Management
Initial Understanding Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning According to Jury (2007), knowledge management can be categorized into three different levels, and organized in a pyrami...
Introduction to Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations
Organizational Learning, Learning Organizations Presentation that gives a clear overview to the concept of Organizational Learning (OL). The following sections are incl...
Introduction of Organizational Learning
Initial Understanding of Organizational Learning Peter Senge explains that Organizational Learning is about how organizations work at their bests. It comes down to how p...
The Difference Between Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
Initial Understanding of the Difference Between OL en KM Dr. Edward Rogers puts forth that organizational learning and knowledge management are often considered to be synonyms a...
How Single and Double Loop Learning Help Operational Managers Become Leaders
Initial Understanding of Single and Double Loop Learning A great way for managers to get out of their operational mode and become leaders is to help them to stand back from day ...