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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should. A lot like Jack.

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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information. The aggregate of “time saved” rapidly dilutes as a function of what happens after the distributions are sent/posted and received by knowledge workers.

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Workplace Productivity

Tony Karrer

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. It's easy to look at something like blogging and fail to see how it can increase quality / quantity of output in exchange for the time involved.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

In complex and chaotic environments (where most knowledge workers reside) traditional training and development approaches that are carried out away from the context of the workplace have little or no impact. Best practice exists only in simple working environments. None of the recommendations include formal training.

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Reduce Searching Start Talking

Tony Karrer

In a study of 182 sales teams that were bidding for new client contracts in a management consulting company, Haas and Hansen found that using personal advice from experienced colleagues can improve work quality. But our findings dispute the claim that different types of knowledge are substitutes for each other.

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The reskilling roadmap: Navigating evolving human, AI roles in the workplace

CLO Magazine

Human experience is the total knowledge workers pick up over time. Not only is it difficult to express in words, but this complex and priceless body of knowledge is context-specific and cannot be codified into a mechanism. The intention is to use group knowledge for mutual development.

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Search

Tony Karrer

My intent here is to possibly expand the options for the average knowledge worker to be able to search a bit better than they do today. In all honesty, my bigger switch has been to leverage Networks and Communities (i.e., This is by no means comprehensive and I welcome suggestions. Obviously, we do this a lot.

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