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How social technologies are extending the organization - McKinsey Quarterly - High Tech - Strategy & Analysis

How social technologies are extending the organization - McKinsey Quarterly - High Tech - Strategy & Analysis
Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities—key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer. When adopted at scale across an emerging type of networked enterprise and integrated into the work processes of employees, social technologies can boost a company’s financial performance and market share, respondents say, confirming last year’s survey results. But this is a very dynamic environment, where the gains from using social technologies sometimes do not persist, perhaps because it takes so much effort to achieve them at scale. Some companies, respondents indicate, reaped fewer benefits and thus became less networked, while a smaller percentage learned how to deploy these technologies to become even more networked. Usage at scale and continued benefits Looking ahead

Business and Web 2.0 An interactive feature - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy For the past seven years, thousands of executives from around the world—across a range of industries and functional areas—have responded to a McKinsey survey on how organizations are using social (or Web 2.0) technologies. In 2009 we created an interactive tool that links the data from these survey results and charts it to the emerging trends in Web 2.0 adoption. This interactive focuses on several of the survey’s core questions—from what technologies and tools companies view as most important to what kind of investments, if any, organizations plan to make in Web 2.0 in the future. Our most recent survey examines the business use of 13 social technologies and tools: blogs, collaborative document editing, mash-ups (a Web application that combines multiple sources of data into a single tool), microblogging, online videoconferencing, podcasts, prediction markets, rating, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social networking, tagging, video sharing, and wikis. Interactive

workplace learning Back in May 2010 I posted a diagram that I had created that showed what I considered to be the 5 stages of Workplace Learning. My ITA colleague, Jay Cross, re-worked it so that I looked like this. Back in May 2010 I also wrote: ”In my opinion most organisations are in Stage 3, but as the L&D conversation circles around the concepts of social and informal learning, I’m getting the impression that many are drifting into, what I would consider an interim stage, 4 ; which is simply adding-on social (and even informal) functionality to the traditional model of learning. Today, in December 2011 it is clear that although many organisations have now moved into Stage 4, some have also taken the leap into Stage 5. So what does it take to move to Stage 5? working=learning; learning=workinginformal learning needs to be enabled, supported and encouraged – not designed or managedautonomous, independent and inter-dependent, self-directed learners are essential in an agile organisation

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Kiira, The Ugandan Electric Car That Could Africa can claim a simple formula for its recent economic success: falling costs, a rising middle class and tenacious faith in its own future. Uganda, one of the continent’s poorer countries, has little to show for that success, except one thing: a new, homegrown electric car. The plug-in Kiira electric vehicle (EV) was designed, manufactured, and assembled in Uganda by students and faculty at Makerere University. The two-seater can maintain speeds of more than 60 mph and operate for about 4 to 5 hours before its lithium ion batteries need to be recharged. The bright green vehicle took its first official test run in November, inspiring government and university officials to proclaim it a symbol of Uganda’s ability to start solving its social and economic problems. For Paul Isaac Musasizi, the university engineering professor who oversaw the project, the experience of Kiira’s first test drive was nothing like the thousand of similar events that happen in the developed world each day.

schema informeel leren Recently I’ve been reading more and more blog posts and articles that talk of how to “manage informal learning”, so I thought it was time for another post of my own that tries to explain how this is actually misleading, and in fact misses the big picture in terms of the importance of informal learning in the workplace, and L&D’s role in supporting it. Here’s a graphic which summarises this posting. Although the two terms “Formal Learning” and “Informal Learning are now quite commonplace, they still seem to be causing some confusion. So let’s look at some definitions from CEDEFOP – the European Centre for Vocation and Training. Formal learning is defined by the CEDEFOP Glossary as “Learning typically provided by an education or training institution, structured (in terms of learning objectives, learning time or learning support) and leading to certification. “Informal learning” is usually taken to mean all learning that takes place outside formal learning. Informal learning is therefore:

Are Socially Savvy Employees Underutilized? Two papers this week got me thinking about the revolutionary power of technology in the workplace. One paper, “Capitalism Goes Social, or How Technology Will Enable the 99% to Change Your Business Forever” published by analyst house Gartner predicts that social media will cause the top-down hierarchical model of management to be replaced by a “social capitalist” model within the next decade. Another paper from Info-Tech describes the competitive advantages for businesses to encourage employees to champion tools from outside of the IT infrastructure. Despite the unrealistic notion that social media will change the workplace into a egalitarian body, as I thought about the Gartner paper I couldn’t help feeling that there is a sliver of truth in their conclusion. And the Info-Tech paper articulates how a social-media enabled corporate culture could happen. Ponder not the Pinterest workplace The Gartner paper is a Utopian fantasy. A matter of resource What do you think? Photo Credit

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