Learning in organisations

Concurrent Learning in Virtual Organisations

Learning is a continuous process that does not come to an end when one leaves school or university. In case of virtual organisations, it is important that the personnel from different local entities that are linked together shares the same knowledge, at the same level, and updates the knowledge consistently and permanently. The paper presents a cooperative distributed learning system and shows ...

E-Learning Readiness in Organisations - Case Healthcare

e-Learning is a good opportunity for companies to up-skill their employees and to meet the demands of lifelong learning but the implementation of it needs to be well prepared and managed because it takes often high investment costs both on the financial and the organisational side. That is why it is important for a company to know if it is e-learning ready. E-readiness and e-learning readiness ...

Aligning Business And Learning: Competency Based Learning Management In Organisations

The value of human capital strongly influences competitiveness, making the alignment of training and business objectives a key priority for organisations in today’s turbulent markets. This entails integrating learning into daily working tasks and putting in place mechanisms for the effective management of business processes, organisational roles, competencies and learning processes, to reduce t...

‘learnsafe’ Learning Organisations for Nuclear Safety

Developing Systems to Support Organisational Learning in Product Development Organisations

There are aspects of New Product Development (NPD) business processes that pose particularly difficult challenges to Organizational Learning systems. Short product and process life cycles compress the available time window for recouping the expenses associated with product development. Cross-functional collaboration in product development organizations requires the merging of knowledge from div...