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Fast Company: Good to Great

Fast Company: Good to Great Here are the facts of life about these and other change myths. Companies that make the change from good to great have no name for their transformation -- and absolutely no program. They neither rant nor rave about a crisis -- and they don't manufacture one where none exists. They don't "motivate" people -- their people are self-motivated. There's no evidence of a connection between money and change mastery. And fear doesn't drive change -- but it does perpetuate mediocrity. Nor can acquisitions provide a stimulus for greatness: Two mediocrities never make one great company. Technology is certainly important -- but it comes into play only after change has already begun. And as for the final myth, dramatic results do not come from dramatic process -- not if you want them to last, anyway. A serious revolution, one that feels like a revolution to those going through it, is highly unlikely to bring about a sustainable leap from being good to being great.

Permalink | Saturday, September 15, 2001

NY Times: Better Networks: Look

NY Times: Better Networks: Look to Nature Over the ensuing decades, as the Internet turned from an academic and military tool into a mass medium, only the efficiencies of packet switching have enabled it to meet demand. Even so, as any Web user or e-mail correspondent can attest, traffic can still be congested and unpredictable. Now ideas for advances in data routing are beginning to emerge from a surprisingly simple model: the ant.

Permalink | Saturday, September 15, 2001

Honolulu Star: Ocean of Knowledge

Honolulu Star: Ocean of Knowledge
A novel combination of sea-schooling and e-schooling, the Ocean Learning Academy will expose 11 students to a high school curriculum in a maritime context...The students will mix ocean learning with online learning -- all were provided with laptop computers so they can log on to the Internet to study math, social studies, language arts and technology.

Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001

Nando Times: A disconnect in

Nando Times: A disconnect in online learning
Since the dawn of the Internet age, boosters have predicted the end of leafy college campuses as schools go virtual. The miracle of the Internet was supposed to let great teachers reach any student, any time, anywhere. And people all over the world would get the equivalent of a Harvard degree through a computer and a network connection... What a crock.

Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001

CIO: Thanks for the Memories

CIO: Thanks for the Memories
Perhaps the most insidious side of the layoff epidemic is the intellectual capital that is walking out the door. CIO's case study examines how Northrop Grumman conducted a knowledge "audit," polling nearly 5,000 employees with a 97-question survey to determine their knowledge needs, sharing practices and prejudices. The results confirmed that employees were eager to share their knowledge in an automated system, but that challenges, such as integrating the systems across lines of business, remained. Knowledge management expert Tom Davenport critiques Northrop's efforts and plans, which he says are mostly sound, and predicts that we'll see more such projects motivated by the loss of intellectual assets. But Davenport challenges the willingness of employees to participate in systems intended to minimize the impact of their own eventual layoff.

Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001

CIO: Stay Tuned for More

CIO: Stay Tuned for More Knowledge
Videoconferencing hasn't exactly fulfilled its promise in the corporate world, but a few universities are putting the put-upon technology to innovative uses.

Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001

Knowledge@Wharton: The Loneliness of the

Knowledge@Wharton: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Innovator
When companies look for new knowledge as a way to spark innovation, they tend to look in their immediate neighborhood � companies that may be located nearby physically or in their own industry. That local approach is too limiting. For companies that are willing to reach out to longer distances and broader contexts, the payoff could be worth it.

Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001

Darwin: Re-Learning E-Learning “There are

Darwin: Re-Learning E-Learning "There are times when you can�and should�unplug from the world. But most of the time, all hell is breaking loose; employees, clients and business partners are playing a game of musical chairs; and none of us can afford to walk away from the tasks at hand. Yet we still need to learn continuously in order to do the task�especially when the task changes from day to day. That's why I refer to e-learning as just-in-time learning." -- Interview with Thomas Koulopoulos.

Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001

Guardian Unlimited: Prime time for

Guardian Unlimited: Prime time for learning
Courses based on BBC1 programmes will be offered to UK undergraduates for the first time tonight. The producers of a David Attenborough programme about oceans, which starts this evening, asked the Open University to create a course for people interested in issues raised by the television series.

Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001

The Chronicle: San Diego Company

The Chronicle: San Diego Company Quietly Provides Online Courses to Nearly 1,000 Institutions
The company, Education to Go, offers not-for-credit courses in all 50 states and five countries. Company officials say it currently offers courses through 945 client institutions, including almost 700 community colleges and more than 200 universities and other four-year institutions. It has 135 courses in its catalog now, and has 200 more in development, with four new titles coming out each week for the next year.

Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001

Wired: Who Said the Web

Wired: Who Said the Web Fell Apart? Dave Winer: "We, collectively, got on it very quickly once it was clear that the the news sites were choked with flow and didn't have very much info.... There's power in the new communication and development medium we're mastering. Far from being dead, the Web is just getting started."

Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001

NY Times: Web Offers Both

NY Times: Web Offers Both News and Comfort
The major news Web sites were quickly overloaded. Many links to the not-so-major news Web sites stopped working. But more than news, what people all over the world craved in the wake of yesterday's terrorist attacks was connection to each other, and many of them found that most easily achieved by going online.

Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001

eLearn Magazine: Share and Share

eLearn Magazine: Share and Share Alike Several years ago, Harvard law professor Arthur Miller sold videos of his lectures to an online law school called the Concord School of Law. Not at all pleased when it discovered what he had done, Harvard accused him of violating University policy. Miller retorted he had violated no such policy, and the lectures were his intellectual property. And so the two parties began a lengthy debate over who owns what, and what rights that ownership bestows.