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In today's Knowledge-Based Economies, the capacity to acquire and implement knowledge is crucial for both personal and economic success.

Knowledge acquisition and application can be divided into 4 basic categories.  Each category of knowledge represents a distinct aspect of knowledge: Know-what, Know-why, Know-who, and Know-how.

The importance of knowledge work to the success of an organization has grown in recent years.  The struggle between competing organizations has shifted from tangible to in

Improving Product Development competencies in designers and developers is a concern for senior leaders in the Manufacturing sector.

The approach most organizations take in developing Human Resources does not go beyond staffing the cream of the crop from leading global educational institutes.  Talent Development to them is, typically, sending their people to attend workshops and keeping up with employee annual training hours’ goals, and that’s it.  Companies usually spend more on acquiring latest

Since the beginning of time, human beings have been utilizing various types of tools to accomplish numerous tasks. The imagination of the human brain led to the invention of various machines. Life becomes easy with these machines as they empower and enable humans to fulfill various needs, including traveling, industries, constructions, and computing.

Despite rapid advancement in the machine industry, intelligence remains the significant difference between humans and machines in doing their tasks.

Large manufacturers are often reluctant to share knowledge with suppliers.  However, supplier networks are considered a great source of gaining competitive edge by Learning Organizations.

A Learning Organization is founded on innovation, free flow of ideas, and a consistent focus on transforming the ways of doing business in order to achieve the desired results.  For instance, Toyota out-performed its competitors in the 2000s era by incorporating the principles of Learning Organization in its cul

Ever since the invention of machines or computers, their ability to do difficult tasks grew significantly. The recent growth in computer and machine algorithms has changed the face of engineering and science. The growth is so tangible that it is significantly rebuilding relationships among people, organizations, intelligent behavior, and engineered systems.

The computer systems have been developed to increase the speed and reduce size in terms of time. The curiosity of humans has pushed them to w

Survival of a business in this digital age largely depends on its ability to timely embrace Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation entails using Digital Technologies to streamline business processes, culture, and customer experiences.

In order to compete today—and in future—and to enable Digital Transformation, organizations should work towards fostering a culture of continuous learning, since Digital Transformation depends on learning and innovation.  The organizations that holistically

When things like ticket booking, watching TV shows, ordering food are being digital, education is still lagging in terms of digital education. The number of Internet users is growing increasingly with an increase in the number of smartphones. It provided a good chance to provide education online.

Online education is slowly and steadily becoming popular with the interest of working professionals to learn new things, technology. Digital education is an academic practice that ultimately helps studen

Transformation of an organization into a Next-generation Learning Organization (NLO) is a challenging endeavor.  The main hurdles include convoluted hierarchies, bureaucratic red tape, delayed decision making, and complicated organizational systems and processes.

To develop a learning organization, leadership needs to trim down bureaucracy and complexities.  They should make the best use of technology to gather holistic real-time data, deploy Artificial Intelligence at scale, and develop data-dri

In this era of rapid change only organizations that are evolving and continuously learning can flourish. Successful organizations discover how to tap their people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels.

A Learning Organization is a place where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new ideas and thinking are nurtured, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together. A Learning Organization is established on the princip

Organizations need to persistently improve the way they do business to stay ahead of the curve. New ideas trigger organizational improvement and build the foundation of a Learning Organization.

Scholars have defined a Learning Organization in many different ways. Some suggest it as an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. Marlene Fiol and Marjorie A. Lyles describe organizational learning as “t

marcus evans will host the Innovation in Insurance Pricing Conference on May 23-24, 2018 in New York. This conference will give insurance firms a critical insight and the practical expertise to innovate their pricing techniques within their personal lines. Delegates will understand how to enhance their data analytics and leverage big data to augment the quality and efficiency of current pricing strategies, in order to out price their competitors. You will develop your strategy to align insurance

10 Must-have’s from 2016’s Online Learning Students

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Large-scale survey recognizes often-contradictory demands from students; offers recommendations for programs.

Higher ed online learning students expect a lot from their programs; but with every student’s unique expectations and desires, how can institutions not only rise above the competition, but offer the best online learning options for their students?

Those are the questions a joint survey–conducted by Learning House and Asl

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The State of Education in the United States: Cornerstones for a More Effective Education

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MIT Professor Jay Wright Forrester’s Work on System Dynamics

During the last twenty years, Jay Forrester's attention has been focused primarily in two areas: 1) the creation of a system dynamics model of the United States economy, and 2) the extension of system dynamics training to kindergarten through high school education. Forrester sees the former project as leading to a new approach to