This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice.
Author: Raanan Lipshitz
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781452236544
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 296
View: 902
This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor Friedman and Micha Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions.
Based on both empirical research and practice experience, this book gives managers the tools to do just that. Organizational learning capability is the capacity to generate and generalize ideas with impact.
Author: Arthur K. Yeung
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195356268
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 232
View: 866
Organizational learning matters now more than ever. In today's hypercompetitive business environment, successful executives must be able to discover opportunities, face problems, and pursue innovative ideas, then turn those ideas into action throughout an organization. Based on both empirical research and practice experience, this book gives managers the tools to do just that. Organizational learning capability is the capacity to generate and generalize ideas with impact. Managers generate new ideas in four basic ways: experimentation, in which organizations learn by trying many new products and processes; continuous improvement, in which they learn by constantly improving what they have done before and mastering each step in a process before moving on to other processes; knowledge acquisition, in which they learn by encouraging individuals and teams to acquire new knowledge continuously; and benchmarking, in which they learn by studying how other groups do things and trying to adapt their techniques. Each learning types leads to different performance consequences. Managers must also be able to generalize information through technology, movement of people, incentives, and learning processes. By both generating and generalizing ideas with impact, managers have a blueprint for making learning happen. Learning may not be sustained, however, unless it is congruent with the larger business context--the organization's strategy and culture and the industry's characteristics. Unfortunately, just as organizations develop learning capabilities, they also suffer from certain learning disabilities. This book outlines common disabilities and the means to overcome them. The authors assist practicing managers by providing several examples of successful and unsuccessful organizations and describing the ways in which they have helped organizations improve learning capability in their consulting practices. Based on detailed case studies, a review of past literature, and data gleaned from a worldwide survey of companies,Organizational Learning Capability is an accessible and useful guide for managers competing in the information economy. This book turns abstract ideas into practice, offers tools that managers can use, and presents a simple yet profound road map for making learning a reality.
David Garvin helps managers make the leap from theoretical ideal to actual practice.
Author: David A. Garvin
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1578512514
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 256
View: 828
David Garvin helps managers make the leap from theoretical ideal to actual practice. In addition to describing the basic steps in any learning cycle, he examines the critical challenges facing managers at each of these stages. Garvin delineates three modes of learning and illustrates these learning modes in complete, richly detailed case studies of organizations.
Huberman, B. A. (2001). The dynamics of organizational learning. ... Opportunity
and constraint: Organizations' learning from the operating and competitive
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Author: Linda Argote
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781461452515
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 218
View: 493
Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations "forget"? Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another? These are among the questions addressed in Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge. Since its original publication in 1999, this book has set the standard for research and analysis in the field. This fully updated and expanded edition showcases the most current research and insights, featuring a new chapter that provides a theoretical framework for analyzing organizational learning and presents evidence about how the organizational context affects learning processes and outcomes. Drawing from a wide array of studies across the spectrum of management, economics, sociology, and psychology, Organizational Learning explores the dynamics of learning curves in organizations, with particular emphasis on how individuals and groups generate, share, reinforce, and sometimes forget knowledge. With an increased emphasis on service organizations, including healthcare, Linda Argote demonstrates that organizations vary dramatically in the rates at which they learn—with profound implications for productivity, performance, and managerial and strategic decision making.
Organizational learning. Annual Review of Sociology, 14, 319–340. Lipshitz, R.,
Friedman, V.J., & Popper, M. (2007). Demystifying organizational learning.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Lipshitz, R., Popper, M., Friedman, V.J. (
2002) ...
Author: Ryan Smerek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190648374
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 200
View: 914
Acknowledgments -- Organizational learning and performance -- Learning as an individual -- Three metaphors of learning as an individual -- Thinking dispositions that foster learning -- Building a learning culture -- Transparency and pursuing truth -- Big picture thinking and learning -- Learning from failure -- Learning and innovation -- Leadership and building a learning culture -- References -- Appendix: learning culture survey
This book advances a design-based approach for the investigation and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning-by-design framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful companies in different industries and national settings and provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in organizations. Investigates learning-by-design in successful companies. Focuses on the choices organizations make about the design of learning mechanisms. Built around six detailed case studies taken from different industries and national settings. Provides a framework for improving the conditions for systematic and sustainable learning in organizations. Offers a clear process model for action and change.
Author: Kristine Kiefer HippPublish On: 2010-02-16
The purpose of this book is to clearly define an approach to school improvement that uses professional learning community (PLC) practices to achieve school improvement and success for every student.
Author: Kristine Kiefer Hipp
Publisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 9781607090519
Category: Education
Page: 166
View: 653
The purpose of this book is to clearly define an approach to school improvement that uses professional learning community (PLC) practices to achieve school improvement and success for every student. This book offers information, examples and case studies to clarify the concept of a PLC, to respond to critical issues in schools, and to support educational leaders in addressing the important mandates of accountability and school improvement. As school leaders proactively lead efforts to create learning communities, their schools, districts, and staff will incorporate knowledge, skills, and practices that focus on teaching and learning for all. The authors' findings will assist leaders, change agents, policy makers, and university faculty in guiding schools toward creating and maintaining PLCs as they sustain school improvement for student learning.
For organizations to take this journey , they have to identify the key features of organizational learning and , more importantly to shift their paradigm from
business to learning . DEMYSTIFYING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION Garvin (
1993 ) ...
This book will address the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them.
Author: Prashant Natarajan
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781315389318
Category: Medical
Page: 210
View: 941
Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights – both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization’s day-to-day operations is becoming vital to hospitals and health systems ability to survive and prosper. One of the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics has been the ability to deal with the sheer variety and volume of disparate healthcare data and the increasing need to derive veracity and value out of it. Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare investigates how healthcare organizations can leverage this tapestry of big data to discover new business value, use cases, and knowledge as well as how big data can be woven into pre-existing business intelligence and analytics efforts. This book focuses on teaching you how to: Develop skills needed to identify and demolish big-data myths Become an expert in separating hype from reality Understand the V’s that matter in healthcare and why Harmonize the 4 C’s across little and big data Choose data fi delity over data quality Learn how to apply the NRF Framework Master applied machine learning for healthcare Conduct a guided tour of learning algorithms Recognize and be prepared for the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare via best practices, feedback loops, and contextually intelligent agents (CIAs) The variety of data in healthcare spans multiple business workflows, formats (structured, un-, and semi-structured), integration at point of care/need, and integration with existing knowledge. In order to deal with these realities, the authors propose new approaches to creating a knowledge-driven learning organization-based on new and existing strategies, methods and technologies. This book will address the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them.
In 2004 , he was a postdoctoral scholar in Organizational Learning for Homeland
Security with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford
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In The Organizational Learning Cycle : How We Can Learn Collectively ( 1994 ) ,
Nancy Dixon does an effective job of demystifying organizational learning and
putting it in an operational context for the working leader . She makes the ...
Author: David M. Noer
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 0787902675
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 288
View: 269
Explore the spiritual side of business The best-selling author of Healing the Wounds writes another prescription for our transition-induced ailments. Here he addresses the self-defeating ways people and organizations react to rapid, seemingly relentless change, and advocates a steady diet of learning as the surest way to break free. Associating various responses to change with four character types -- The Overwhelmed, The Entrenched, The BSers, and The Learners -- the author holds up The Learners as the attainable ideal...and shows how to help those in the other categories pursue the learning path. The ultimate goal: to facilitate transition to a more flexible, self-directed workplace.
In the first analytic book about Hewlett-Packard, Deone Zell also offers an ethnography of corporate redesign, documenting Hewlett-Packard's radical reorganization of both a manufacturing and a research division.
Author: Deone Zell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801432987
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 180
View: 294
How do corporations achieve change? In the first analytic book about Hewlett-Packard, Deone Zell also offers an ethnography of corporate redesign, documenting Hewlett-Packard's radical reorganization of both a manufacturing and a research division. Because she writes from within the process as it unfolds, Zell is able to demonstrate how the inclusion of employees in every step of redesign can inspire the knowledge and commitment to transform an organization. Hewlett-Packard is among a growing number of companies in the United States exploring what is called sociotechnical systems (STS) redesign. As competitive pressures have grown, interest in STS has increased because it has the potential to catalyze comprehensive organizational change and avoid the pitfalls of a piecemeal or small-scale approach. STS works from the ground up, involving front-line employees in analysis and redesign of the entire organization and in explicit examination of an organization's culture. In Hewlett-Packard's California Personal Computer Division, production operators worked alongside managers to redesign their printed circuit assembly line into self-managing teams of employees. In the Santa Clara Division, a very different workforce of engineers, initially unwilling to standardize their creativity, had to develop commercial applications and become more responsive to customers in order to survive. On the basis of Hewlett-Packard's success, Zell concludes that, with top-level support and a high investment of resources at the outset, redesign can inspire relatively rapid change, especially suitable for organizations in fast-paced environments. As one H-P manager commented, Empowerment is no longer a nice thing to do. It is now a business imperative. --Arthur B. Shostak "Labor Studies Journal"
Organizational learning: The contributing processes and the literatures.
Organization Science, 2(1), ... Dynamic core competences through meta-learning
and strategic context. Journal of ... Demystifying organizational learning.
Thousand Oaks ...
Author: William A. Pasmore
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1780520220
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 296
View: 135
In this diverse volume new methodologies are introduced, such as the strategic fitness process for engaging leaders in better understanding the reactions of employees to strategic change efforts (Beer); Jazz as a metaphor for organizational improvisation (Bernstein & Barrett); and new theories for understanding change processes (Gomez & Ballard).
Sebastian Raisch establishes three models to address these limitations and validates them in a field study of global media enterprises.
Author: Sebastian Raisch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783322818836
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 290
View: 241
While significant insights have been gained, the field of factors underlying firm success is still highly fragmented, often oversimplifies the interrelation between success factors, and remains inherently static in its approach. Sebastian Raisch establishes three models to address these limitations and validates them in a field study of global media enterprises.
The book also considers the social process of shifting from present organisational structures and practices to new ones.
Author: W.J. Orlikowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0412640104
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 441
View: 630
Many organisations are using an increased range of information technologies to support a variety of new organisational practices and organisational forms. The book aims to investigate the integration of information technologies into work places and their effect on work and work-life. Issues include changes in: the nature, quantity and quality of work; power relations; privacy; and aspects of organisational culture. The book also considers the social process of shifting from present organisational structures and practices to new ones.
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Demystifying the alchemy of strategic innovation : The role of organizational and
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Author: Michael D. Cohen
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN: UOM:39015037857417
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 611
View: 231
How do organizations learn, change and adapt? The chapters in this book contribute to the development of organizational learning theory in three ways. They delineate its scope, differentiating it from organizational ecology, choice and individual learning; demonstrate the explanatory power of a learning perspective; and illustrate the application of research tools useful for the study of learning.
