Great take by Umair Haque on the necessary paradigm shift that companies must in order to be agents of change rather than simply agents of opportunity. Author Umair Haque writes that the 21st century demands from firms of all stripes: a paradigm shift in the nature of advantage.
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Continue Reading →I’ve been looking at ethnographical studies to determine how researchers and experts collaborate. Of course, this proposes that ethnographic analysis can inform design. This leads me to reflect further on the impact of the research results on the way that online environements in which researchers and experts collaborate are designed.
Ethnography is a research method [...]
Continue Reading →Leave it to Andy Wibbels to explain everything in a well designed diagram.
You’re not crazy: Facebook’s interface is hard to learn. Sure posting things and sharing is pretty straighforward, but if you want to figure out what goes where and who can see it, that is a bit more of a challenge. I [...]
Continue Reading →Mostly focussed on new graduates, the Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts: Issue 2: e-Portfolio Edition has some great applications for professional communities of practice, collective expertise and talent management.
From the Editorial:
This issue of Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts focuses on the use of digital [...]
Continue Reading →Radical innovation is a proposal or idea and not a product. It is user-centered and focussed on meaning.
What is your innovation strategy?
In his book, “Design-Driven Innovation“, author Roberto Verganti outlines a framework for mapping strategy for innovation as a radical change in meanings. Check out his thinking in the diagram below:
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Kristina Schneider is organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management.
Her book Edublogging: a qualitative study of training and development bloggers investigates the value of edublogging as a form of self-directed learning and its potential contribution to communities of practice.
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