The Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference

Time: June 18, 2009 all day
Location: Online
Website or Map: http://bit.ly/learntrends
Event Type: online, mini, conference
Organized By: Tony Karrer
Latest Activity: Jun 18
George Siemens has organized the following event:
Launch Session
Social. Networks. Learning. Organizations
Social learning and social networks continue to grow in prominence in corporations, organizations, and universities. The impact of networks, however, remains somewhat misunderstood. How should organizations “restructure” on network principles? How can ROI be calculated? Are networks a superior method of organization learning and development? How can professionals re-create wholeness of understanding in fragmentary conversations and information shared through social networks? What lessons can learning professionals apply from Facebook, Twitter, iPhone applications, and other software and technology trends?
Join LearnTrends on June 18th for presentation and discussion on the social, networked learning and organizations. Topics include: ROI of networks, Value Networks, fragmented conversations and sensemaking, and the next stages of social and learning networks in organizations.
All sessions will be held online and recordings will be made available after the event.
Sessions:
What is Social and Network Learning
George Siemens, Tony Karrer
9:30 AM Pacific Time
ROI and Social and Network Learning
Tony Karrer and Will Thalheimer
10 AM Pacific Time
Organizational Challenges in a World of Networks
Verna Allee
11 AM Pacific Time
Now What? Moving Beyond Networks
George Siemens
Noon Pacific Time
Fragmentation and Coherence
Dave Snowden
2:30 PM Pacific Time
Session Descriptions:
Organizational Challenges in a World of Networks
Verna Allee
For decades we have designed organizations using organizational charts, and bureaucratic job structures. We have treated the world of human interactions and business transactions as two separate universes. Even the transactional world of business process has worked against networks by its focus on driving out variation – which also drives out innovation. Achieving the benefits of network and building network competencies is an enormous organizational challenge. Complicated processes break down when there is misalignment between human interactions, which operate as networks, and formal structures and systems. How can we meet these challenges. The dynamic network orientation of Value Network Analysis provides systemic insights that "fill the gap" between formal processes, the organization chart, human networks and asset management. A human-centric emphasis on “roles” can open up a whole new approach to organizational design.
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