a relationship between a supplier and a customer in which the supplier modifies or customizes a product as it learns more about the customer's requirements
This paper explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. Paper starts with the general proposition that learning promotes performance, and then describes several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in support of performance improvement. Psychological and interpersonal risks of learning behavior are...
In nowadays knowledge economy, the work environment is becoming the primary source for learning. This implies a fundamental change in the relationship between working and learning. We were used to view learning as a preparation for work: learning preceded working. Now, learning can be viewed as a direct consequence of...
In present scenario the companies aim to learn new ways of doing business to gain insights into everything from specific market segment needs, to new technologies and innovative production processes, to completely new business models. The concept of alliance learning proves it as a key to improving the current dissatisfaction...
This article is about learning to ask for what you need in a way that doesn’t create a war or more tension. In this article there is a list of four suggestions that must be kept in mind in order to avoid any conflict. Like, back away from the problem...
CHICAGO -- Managed learning services or vendor assistance in the learning and development space is not new, but in the past five years increasing numbers of technological advances and widespread use of the Internet to augment learning activities have made formal efforts to outsource learning more popular. This Learning Solutions...
Over the past decade a tremendous increase in alliance formations have been observed. Many of these alliances are established with the purpose of facilitating learning, which in this paper has been divided into exploration or exploitation learning. The objective of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework to analyse...
From its inception, e-learning hubs have been closely linked to learning activities and resources. However, there is hardly any research in examining the impact of e-learning hubs on learning outcomes, specifically how to design online learning activities to attain the desired learning outcomes. This paper first shows how to use...
The Accenture Learning 2004 Survey of Learning Executives has delivered a set of compelling insights into today's learning organizations, both in business and in government. The learning functions at most of the organizations participating in the Accenture Learning survey clearly face heightened expectations to deliver value, prove the business impact...
A good deal of learning (eg. from training) is wasted because the goals are ill- defined, and the workplace supports to apply the learning are missing or absent. Therefore, Learning contracts are designed to help develop shared expectations about the purpose, process and results that are to come from any...
An article in the 8/1 New York Times profiled a study on the relationship between learning and alcohol. The study, recently completed by two Duke University professors, asserts that alcohol has a detrimental effect on learning, and offers a remedy: higher beer taxes.
Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. At any point in time, organizations can...
The purpose of this paper is to understand how communication behaviours influence new product development NPD speed and organisational learning. Through the use of structural equation modelling, this research tests a model examining the effects of communication behaviours (i.e. communication quality, bi-directional communication, and communication frequency) on NPD speed and...
Learning time management is not as difficult as many believe. In fact, when a person first starts school he is in the process of learning new strategies that help him to obtain goals. When parents teach children who they are, also learning skills needed in time management. The advantage of...
From the executive summary: ‘Economists have well established that learning-by-doing influences product proliferation, international trade, and economic growth. The economists have also revealed that potential productivity gains from learning-by-doing decline as products or industries mature. Together the findings suggest that embedding the learning-by-doing process into the product life-cycle can be...
Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. An additional possibility is investigated. At any...
Establishing an E-learning ProgramE-Learning - An Insider's PerspectiveThis article lives up to its billing as a basic overview for establishing an E-Learning Program. It fulfills its mission. In future discussions of E-Learning, I would like there to be more devoted to the various learning management systems that are available in...
Many organizations now recognize that on-demand answer finding is a primary source of employees' daily learning, and are searching for ways to support this informal learning in tandem with their more formalized blended training programs. This paper provides a structure for combining formal and informal learning resources within a blended...
Learning and knowledge sharing software company OutStart has formed a partnership with UK based, New Wave Learning, in response to the increased demand for workplace learning solutions. New Wave Learning specialises in the provision of informal learning solutions and will offer OutStart's suite of learning and knowledge products.
Thinq Learning Solutions Inc., of Baltimore, a provider of learning management software, said it has been selected as a subcontractor for the U.S. government's FasTrac program, a contracting vehicle for e-learning and technology training, enabling Thinq to provide its Total Learning Solution suite of learning technologies to government agencies.
This paper considers whether there is any relationship between a firm's learning style and the way it chooses to appropriate its innovation profits. It argues that there two potential connections: first, a firm's absorptive capacity, its ability to generate new innovations and its subsequent ability to appropriate the returns from...
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