Strategic Learning - Why ?

Many hours of thought I invested in thinking and defining what's my offering to the corporate/business world.

I'll present it using the good old questions:

What? Why? To Whom? Where?

and we'll start with the : Why?

We are deep into the "Knowledge Era". All of us have read time and time again about the importance of the intangible assets in today's economy; about the importance of building processes and culture that will make easier the sharing and development of knowledge; about the constant change in the prevailing conditions, etc.

We witness an "avalanche" of new methodologies, that have 'deep down" much in common: Allowing for Performance Improvement of the organization's stake holders.

Among these methodologies, we count:

Different formats of Learning: Formal, Informal, eLearning, mLearning.

Knowledge Management

The Learning and Growth Perspective of the Balanced Scorecard.

Competencies Management

Talent Management

Performance Improvement

My specific point of view encompasses my business experience, my psychological and business education and my training background.

I look at all these disciplines/methodologies and it's almost funny to see people "attacking" separately the same needs with different "weaponry", with a great deal of belief that they have the ultimate solution. It's enough to read all the lengthy debate regarding Informal Learning sparked by Jay Cross' book or the thousands books on knowledge management, not to mention the millions of consultants implementing the BSC methodology.

Some of them have a strong bond with "Joe" or "Mary" in the corporate "trenches", others see them as an important "resource" and I've just read someone regarding the employees as "products"... Many ignore them placing the higher amount of importance in technological aspects. Almost all of them disregard the others. At the end of the day, they have to sell, don't they???...

The customers? Well they stand confused...

We are in need of a comprehensive point of view that will include all of the above.

I propose:

Strategic Learning

What's it? On the next post...