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Assessing Values in Online Technology Part 4

HR Examiner

Assessing Values in Online Technology. Ten Things We Learned. In part one in this series we revealed the abstract and methodology of the study and then the ten things we learned in part two. In part one in this series we revealed the abstract and methodology of the study and then the ten things we learned in part two.

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What is Organizational Learning (And Why is it Important?)

Zenefits

The sophisticated ideas and processes that you need to inject some life into your business can be summed up in two words: organizational learning. But what is organizational learning, and why does your business need to do it? But what is organizational learning, and why does your business need to do it? Individual Learning.

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What is an intranet? The definitive explanation

ThoughtFarmer

It’s a website, communications channel, knowledge management tool, culture tool, and collaboration platform. It helps people work better by combining the best features of wikis, blogs, document and content management systems. Ready to learn more about intranets? An intranet wears many hats inside an organization.

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Most Important Developments for 1/22

GetFive

Since 2004, Google engineers get to spend 20% of their time pursuing projects of their own creation. Movement of talented employees across firms is inevitable, but if you’re in a leadership role, there are things you can do when a star employee leaves to prevent their departure from becoming a stampede to the exits. Fast Company.

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Part II “We Know More Than We Can Say: How to Use Tacit Knowledge

Conversation Matters

. In Part I, I explained why “we know more than we can say” including, 1) how our brains store knowledge, 2) how we create knowledge 3) the values and relationships that are involved in tacit knowledge. The first is to draw on someone’s tacit knowledge for an answer to a pressing question or problem.

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4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively

Conversation Matters

In an earlier blog post I described a framework for Knowledge Transfer and explained that the choice of knowledge transfer process differs depending upon 1) what transfer problem the organization is trying to solve, and 2) the type of knowledge (e.g. The site is located in deep water in the North Sea.

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Leveraging Collective Knowledge: NASA’s Constellation Program

Conversation Matters

Every organization has the problem of how to save the knowledge it has created, but after the cancelation of the Constellation program (CxP), NASA has that problem in spades. NASA learned its lesson about losing knowledge early in 1990. David Delong wrote about NASA' loss in Lost Knowledge , Oxford Press 2004.