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internalising evidence from evaluations: three perspectives on learning.
Development agencies are consistently required to improve their performance, in terms not only of project outcomes, but also of the quality of their programming and their institutional capacity. In a very practical sense, evaluations are now perceived as learning opportunities. It only seems logical, therefore, to try and improve the internalisation of evaluation results at different levels.
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship — HBS Working Knowledge
producing and disseminating knowledge within a multidisciplinary community of practice is enhanced when knowledge workers hold compatible assumptions, even when the form and content of knowledge generation across those workers varies
HBS Working Knowledge: Incompatible assumptions: barriers to proeducing multidisciplinary knowledge in communities of scholarship
pdf doc. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge
HBS Working Knowledge: Embracing commitment and performance: CEOs and practices used to manage paradox
Instead of choosing between conflicting outcomes such as long-term strategy or short-term performance drivers, top-tier managers argue that their role is to embrace such paradoxes to make both things happen simultaneously
ChangeThis Newsletter: 42.05 Ideaicide: How To Avoid It And Get What You Want by Alan Parr and Karen Ansbaugh
Corporate forces act to eliminate risk and make an idea conform to the company's existing business model, not to the needs of the marketplace. The edginess of the idea is gone, replaced by cold, calculated efficiency and predictability. We will show you h
ChangeThis Newsletter: 40.01 Change the Way You Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant
manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and individual
Capturing workplace knowledge with Drupal | StressFree
Web-based tech such as wikis & blogs enable people to quickly publicise knowledge within peer gps as a means of collaborative knowledge capture. This article explores how Drupal can be used to facilitate this process in a community centric manner.
WeAreTeachers IMAGINE Community
"Building the first teachers' knowledge marketplace." Online community hosted by Ning.
Organizational Development / Action Science / Chris Argyris
In the field of Organizational Development, action science is also known as action inquiry, action research, or organizational learning. Based on work of Chris Argyris
ePortConsortium.org - Electronic Portfolio Consortium
assn of individuals -- from 57 countries and more than 675 higher education schools or IT commercial institutions -- interested in development of academic ePortfolio software systems & establishment of interoperability standards for such systems.
The Johns Hopkins Digital Portfolio
tool for individuals to compile evidence of professional development in multiple media; allows for evaluation by a teacher or mentor, and a separate public interface
Visible Thinking
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.
Accenture Newsroom: Managers Say the Majority of Information Obtained for Their Work Is Useless, Accenture Survey Finds
Middle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong,
What’s Your Project Mentality? :: Reforming Project Management
Adrian Savage writing as "Carmine Coyote" offers this simple 2×2 view of management behavior in organizations. Take a close look. Where do you find your management?
ChangeThis Newsletter: 21.03 Thinking Through Problem Solving
Problems begin simply, but often spiral out of control, costing your organization time and money. Valarie Washington will show you a new way of thinking about problem solving to root out problems before they grow unhindered.
The New Yorker : fact : content
on experts in the revision of anti-terrorist strategy, using lessons from organizational learning
An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
"There are two ways to go about encouraging adoption of social software: fostering grassroots behaviours which develop organically from the bottom-up; or via top-down instruction."
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
Good case study of an enterprise wiki. "You need to add interesting content to engage people and show them how it is relevant to their team. Then they'll start experimenting. If you give them a blank wiki it will never take off b/c they'll never find time
Knowledge Discovery
latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for knowledge discovery research. "blog" but with extremely rare updates
Taxonomy of tagging systems (Atomiq)
adjunct reference to the author's paper on tagging and taxonomy.
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