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The selfish teamwork created by buffers
I have done a number of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) implementations in my Theory of Constraints practice, and I am always amazed at both the results and the business world in which these implementations happen. For example, IndustryWeek has a short piece on Tata Steel using CCPM in their scheduled maintenance, Bargain Machine Maintenance by Jonathan Katz.
What I mean is that the specifics of CCPM are the same, but each business has different underlying issues that come out in a variety of ways. And it is often in the resolution of these underlying issues that
Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Saturday, March 20, 2010
The problem of incentives in knowledge work
Spend any time digesting the insights in such work as Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational or Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , to pick two recent examples, and you conclude that most organizational incentive systems are naively designed at best and actively harmful at worst. Project teams experimenting with and adopting new practices such as After Action Reviews as part of their standard project plans
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I’m struggling with the issue of incentives in organizations trying
The FASTForward Blog
- Thursday, March 18, 2010
Using Social Media to Predict the Strength of Personal Ties
They offer some practical applications. For example, a “system that prioritizes via tie strength, or allows users to tune parameters that incorporate tie strength, might provide more useful, timely and enjoyable activity streams.”
Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently published an interesting paper on Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media . Building on the theoretical work on strong and weak ties started by the classic Mark Granovetter 1973 paper “The Strength of Weak Ties,” they looked at whether social media behavior
The FASTForward Blog
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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CoP Series #5: Is my community a community of practice?
In our first post on Communities of Practice (CoPs) we disabused ourselves of the confusion between a community and the platform that allows a community to interact together online. An example might be to have the learners apply their learnings “out in the world” then come back and report on what they learned, questions they had and, if relevant, how application changed their understanding of the material. This is the fifth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I
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Communities of Practice
practice communities of practice The idea that learning involves a deepening process of participation in a community of practice has gained significant ground in recent years. Communities of practice have also become an important focus within organizational development and have considerable value when thinking about working with groups. In this article ideas ? thinkers ? Furthermore, we often assume that learning 'has a beginning and an end; that it is best separated from the rest of our activities; and that it is the result of teaching'
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- Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Red-Tails in Love: Birdwatchers as a community of practice
you have ever hankered to read a “real life” story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. Identifying a new practice and refining it.)
listserv or web forum, Twitter, etc.)
Spidergram examples of the Central Park Birdwatchers - click for larger image
My friend Sue Wolff generously lent me two books recently. The first, Marie Winn’s “ Red-Tails in Love ” captured my heart and mind.
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Share Best Practices - Patterns
Interesting post by Jane Bozarth - The Myth of "Best Practices" . A "best practice" is best only in the precise, specific context in which it exists. … What works in my marriage won't necessarily work in -- and may even damage -- yours. Even if moved from one situation to another very close one, the odds of transfer being made with practice intact is nil. How do we address those who pressure us to produce a list of, or abide by, "best" practices? The comments are also interesting but focus primarily on the word "best" vs. "leading"
elearning Technology
- Monday, March 23, 2009
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Sample Action Plan for Business Blogging
In this post I will share a sample high-level action plan from these efforts.
Listed below are a set of sample suggested steps and a sequence. Sample initial action steps are listed under each main step. These steps are covered in detail in the customized best practice blogging guides that I provide to clients. My day job is to help companies with their market facing blogs. I
Portals and KM
- Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Examples of eLearning 2.0
approaches used in corporate learning settings: Alongside Formal Learning Blog as writing tool Wiki as a collaborative learning tool Editable reference materials (Wiki) Internal / External Product information Process information Sales scenarios Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / support information Online reference / glossary Experience Capture New-hire blog Maintaining a “lab or project notebook� RSS Reader, Podcasts - Steady Drip Then I ask the group for examples of how they are using eLearning 2.0 Here are some of the things that people mentioned:
Learnlets
- Monday, September 22, 2008
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CoP Series #6: Community Leadership in Learning
Lets take a look at some possible roles in learning communities or communities of practice. These are examples, and they are in my language. Here are some examples. Tutor - tutors help learners achieve the course objectives and support the individual’s learning objectives and practices. Community Leadership in Learning - bees, mentors, coaches, experts and friends
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick .
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socialstrategy:start [Practical Participation]
[[ socialstrategy:start ]] Practical Participation Trace: » socialstrategy You are here: start » socialstrategy:start Table of Contents Overcoming the Hurdles Internet Access Office Technology Systems and Procedures Policy and Guidance Organisational Culture Technical Skills Leadership and Management
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Best practice - or good examples
Mark Gould has a discussion of "best practice" in his Transplanting practices between organisations , which is itself a comment on a post from Tom Young of Knoco. There is the familiar watch-out on the idea of best practice:
The problem that I have with much of the ‘best practice’ discourse is that it often strays into assertions or assumptions that such practices can readily be However, like the law, such transplants will often be rejected.
Mark's discussion covers a number of topics, but I enjoyed his deeper thinking about what a best practice
Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Howard Rheingold on the Social Media Classroom
As part of CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop exploring the use of web technologies in the service of communities of practice, we (John Smith and I!) We were interested to hear about the development both because we are using a hosted version of the SMC as our “home base” this iteration of the workshop, and because Howard’s project is a nice example of community technology stewardship. asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically).
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