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By: A little shift in direction « wonderwebby

A little shift in direction « wonderwebby — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:25:05 +0000

[...] my focus will be a little different, but I will continue to share some of the common threads between marketing and learning here on Wonderwebby, sharing random ramblings about interesting we [...]

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:44:19 +0000

Hi Matt! You bring in a very good point. I agree with you that perhaps Communication is a far too broader of a term, indeed. I am thinking though whether we need to keep pushing forward for the message that splits up the concepts of communication & collaboration. Far too many times people confuse both of them as being one and only same thing, but hardly ever are. I think that’s because of that broader sense of Communication. So I agree with you that perhaps we should be careful with it. It may not be as useful as I thought it would be, indeed. Good point.

Yet, it gets the message across quite nicely… Guess I’ll need to do further thinking on it and see whether it makes sense going further up that road…

By: innotecture

innotecture — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:32:14 +0000

Jazz – I think it’s a missing meshwork not necessarily just a link

Luis – I kinda agree with you but “Communications” is a very broad term. Pretty much everything we do in business as a communications aspect. Is it too broad to be useful?

By: wonderwebby

wonderwebby — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:27:33 +0000

Hi Matt and Luis – what an interesting discussion! Matt I’m looking forward to reading that article soon!
So the missing link appear to be: facilitation, complexity, networks, communications, capability building….
Interesting…

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:59:19 +0000

Hi Matt! Great commentary! I must say I am still digesting your article for an upcoming blog post I am putting together, but couldn’t resist commenting over here sharing how perhaps the missing link between L&K and Marketing would be Communications. In fact, if you associate Marketing & Communications, which is what some businesses are starting to do already, then it is much easier, imo, to connect L&K with Marketing, through Communications.

And this is where I feel that both Learning & Knowledge would benefit tremendously since through that communication they would be able to stay on top, specially on the capability building aspect.

But like I said, I need to finish up the draft post I am working on based on your article. Hope to have it up and running shortly… Thanks!

By: innotecture

innotecture — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:04:32 +0000

Hello – I wrote this a while ago and now it’s up – I’d like to get your opinion: http://innotecture.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/learning-knowledge/

The link between learning & knowledge is pretty clear for me. How these two link to marketing is trickier. I think it boils down to the exchange of intangibles – which is a fancier term for conversation. The web makes these exchanges more visible now than they have been in the past.

Pondering: The ultimate purposes of L&K and Marketing are different. One is about performance improvement / capability building and one is about selling stuff. But skills required have partly shifted from making stuff (TV ads, training courses) to facilitating others doing things – which is a different.

You need to know the technology but you also need to understand things around facilitation, complexity, networks, all that stuff (at least at a gut level).

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:14:51 +0000

Hi Jazz! Well, I don’t think it is silly. In fact, it sparked my comment as I made the connection with that blending of disciplines and having knowledge workers learning these new cross-pollinating skills is not going to be a nice thing to have, but an essential one! So spot on, Jazz! Like usual! )

See you online!

By: wonderwebby

wonderwebby — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:04:10 +0000

Hi Luis! Well thanks, I realise this proposition of a “personality transplant” or personality enhancement role might seem a bit silly (so thanks for your comment!) but I do agree with you that potentially “all of [these]disciplines will eventually have to blend to help accommodate the next generation of the workforce” Thanks for stopping by!

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:58:34 +0000

Hiya Jazz! What a great follow up blog post from the one I put together, as well as that one from James! After reading it I think it is becoming increasingly clearer that all of those disciplines will eventually have to blend to help accommodate the next generation of the workforce that is already in the corporate world where a mixture of cross skills is becoming more paramount than ever before. In this multi-disciplinary business world, more and more knowledge workers will need to learn about multiple job roles and acquire those skills while on the job, in order to become more productive than ever!

That’s also what Jay Cross has been saying as well with regards to Learning, that it needs to become more informal, more like a peer to peer process, that quote I mentioned on “Partners in Learning” in order to help accommodate the acquisition of those “new” skills. It would be important to see though whether HR would realise about these needs and adjust career paths accordingly. We shall see …