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Corporate Universities building absorptive capacity

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Recently I wrote a working paper for the International HRD Conference that will be held on June 2-4, 2010 in Pecs, Hungary. This working paper will be presented in the conference stream: business strategy, organizational learning and knowledge management. The paper tries to establish a connection between the fields of Human Resource Development (HRD) and Strategic Management [...]

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Tags: business strategy · corporate academy · corporate learning · human resource development · innovation · knowledge management · learning research

Knowledge blocks innovation

August 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments

My respected former colleague Wilfred Rubens pointed me to an interesting posting on the HBR innovation blog of Scott Anthony. It is about the danger of knowledge blocking innovation. The central issue: people who have deep knowledge about a topic sometimes assume other people have that same knowledge. That in itself can be problematic for [...]

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Tags: e-learning · innovation · knowledge management · rapid e-learning