"What scientists face today is “almost disgraceful … The bureaucrats want to get a hold of the money and ask for business plans. Now do you think that George Smith and I ever wrote a business plan? Not at all,” Dr. Boyle, now 85 and retired, told a reporter Tuesday. “You don't have time to do that kind of baloney.”"
Harold Jarche lists fees paid for various e-learning roles
So You Want to Be an E-learning Consultant...
By Harold Jarche, Principal, Jarche Consulting
This program includes and on demand recorded webcast, 90 minutes long and available for access any time. Accompanying presentation and program resources are provided for download.
In every community there are certain individuals (the "Positive Deviants") whose special practices, strategies, or behaviors enable them to find better solutions to prevalent problems than their colleagues who have access to the same resources. Positive deviance is a culturally appropriate change approach that is tailored to the specific community in which it is used.
Soft systems analysis (SSA) is a technique for understanding complex human activity systems (i.e., systems that include people) from multiple perspectives (Checkland and Scholes 1990). “Soft” refers to the flexible nature of human activity systems, the fact that they change depending on the observer. Soft systems analysis allows people to set objectives and means by which to accomplish objectives with respect to a particular system despite the soft nature of a system. It works by compartmentalizing a system, whittling it down to its essential components, those that drive, allow, or constrain the workings of the system. Using SSA involves a methodical examination of the roles and values of the people involved in a collaborative effort, the outcomes desired by those people, and the constraints on change exerted from outside the system. These factors are used to create visual and verbal models of the system that enable the user to understand the system from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders (Appendix 1). The main strength of SSA is its ability to include, and limit the analysis to, those factors relevant to enacting change.
WHAT The only organization
HOW that develops and supports a community
WHO for information architects
WHERE anywhere in the world
WHY who want to design information spaces
WHEN in a world of ubiquitous data, access, and connection
Dan Pink examines some of the causes of the rise of the creative class.
This past spring, about 90 Philadelphia Company of Friends members gathered at the Charter High School for Architecture & Design with Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind (Riverhead, 2005), to discuss further how business leaders can learn to embrace design, creativity, and innovation. During the talk, Pink outlined why the future will belong to creators and empathizers, and the three forces that have tilted the scales away from rational and sequential thought.
This past spring, about 90 Philadelphia Company of Friends members gathered at the Charter High School for Architecture & Design with Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind (Riverhead, 2005), to discuss further how business leaders can learn to embrace design, creativity, and innovation. During the talk, Pink outlined why the future will belong to creators and empathizers, and the three forces that have tilted the scales away from rational and sequential thought.