Working Papers

Something odd is happening. While financial turmoil engulfs large organizations, intranets and related employee-facing technologies are experiencing a new injection of momentum. Budgets may have been slashed in many central services, but intranet services across multiple sectors are enjoying large-scale investment. Read more...

by Arindam Ghosh

In today’s world with most organizations going in for outsourcing their software projects, Project Procurement Management becomes a very important aspect in Project Management. This article discusses the concept in detail.

Blended learning is not simply the addition of ICT into traditional face-to-face subjects. It is about integrating the relative strengths of face-to-face teaching and online learning to provide a range of learning spaces where students can interact and construct knowledge. Read more...

By Steve Pavlina

Does it make any sense from a productivity standpoint to spend time on social networking sites, or is this just another form of online addiction? Read more...

By Tom Barr

The days of orchestrating corporate learning through special "events," such as classroom training and seminars, have given way to learning on-the-job. Indeed, working and learning are becoming so tightly integrated that it's often difficult to differentiate between them. Read more...

By Haitham A. El-Ghareeb

E-learning is the "learning" process revolution enabled by new technologies that, hopefully, will present an effective and efficient learning process that doesn't exist today. Learning management systems (LMSs) are responsible for "learning" activities, while university management information systems (UMISs) are responsible for handling University managerial activities.
Sociotechnical systems recognized many years ago that organizations functioned most effectively when their social and technological networks were compatible. This is the case exactly with e-learning systems. LMSs can't provide the managerial functions needed to support universities, and UMISs don't support the "learning" process. Both systems have to integrate and operate together to support educational institutions and e-learning.
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By C. Jennings

Real learning is the ability to acquire new ideas from experience and retain them as memories. Acquiring knowledge is not real learning. It's just the first easy step in the process. Formal learning can only give us 10 percent of our learning and feedback. Coaching and sharing—learning from others—can only give us 20 percent. The other 70 percent comes from experience. Read more... (.PDF)

By Forrest W. Breyfogle III

It is essential to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of training methods that lead to certification and implementation of Lean Six Sigma and related methodologies. This is necessary for any organization to ensure alignment not only with all operational processes, but equally important, the entire enterprise. Read more...

By Park, Sung Hee; Ertmer, Peggy A.

This article (.PDF) is concerned with changing teachers' beliefs regarding technology use. Although nowadays technology has become very common in everyday life, it yet has to be embedded in the teaching practice to unfold its full potential. While access and training are no longer considered significant barriers, teachers' beliefs about technology use are thought to be potentially impedimental for the integration of technology in the teaching practice.

By Neville Turbit

There are lots of articles and white papers on risk management on the web. This white paper (.PDF) on risk takes a different perspective. It looks at risk in three dimensions.
- Corporate Risk Maturity
- Project Riskiness
- Project Risks.
It will make your view of risk management more complete, by providing a context to assess the organisation's attitude to risk.

This study (.PDF) analyzes fourteen trends in three areas that will shape the future of technology parks and regions - society and economy, science and technology, and models and places for R&D. These trends inform three scenarios of research parks in 2030:
- Science and Technology Parks 3.0 - incremental change
- The Rise of Research Clouds - disruptive competition
- Dematerialized Innovation - research parks in decline

This report will be a valuable resource for park managers, economic developers, or any organization seeking to understand how and where to locate R&D to maximize innovative potential.
We hope to expand the paper over the summer into a full-length field guide to building future innovation spaces, so you can also wait for that.

The next 5 years will hold more change for the advertising industry than the previous 50 did. Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked. Read more... (.PDF)

By Neville Turbit

Timeboxing is a somewhat overlooked technique in project management. It has been around for decades and seems to go through periods of being fashionable, then unfashionable. This white paper (.PDF) on timeboxing explains what it is, when to use timeboxing, and how to run a timebox.

In this report (.PDF) you’ll find:
- The top social media marketing questions marketers want answered
- How much time marketers are investing in social media
- The benefits of social media
- How time invested impacts results
- The top social media tools

By Mohamed Amine Chatti

Organizational learning occurs when individuals within an organization experience a problem (error detection) and work on solving this problem (error correction). Error correction happens through a continuous process of organizational inquiry, where everyone in the organizational environment can inquire, test, and adjust his or her theory-in-use, which is a private image of the organizational theory-in-use. Effective organizational inquiry then leads to a reframing of one's theory-in-use, thereby changing the organizational theory-in-use. Interesting reconceptualization of the concept of LaaN (Learning as a Network - interesting acronym). Read more...