by Team BE | May 29, 2012 | All entries, Reflections
We were at the conference dinner of the psychotherapy network in DC earlier in March, where we had been invited to create some side conversations at the conference on social learning … It’s a massive conference (around 3000 people) and the dinner was a big...
by Team BE | May 29, 2012 | All entries, Reflections
In March Etienne went to Singapore for his fourth annual visit with the initiative to cultivating communities of practice across the Public Service. Is this going to be a model for the Public Service in other countries? Four years ago, I became involved as an advisor...
by Team BE | May 29, 2012 | All entries, Reflections
We’re trying to get more disciplined about blog posts, which is why you might get a bunch of them all at once. No promises – but the idea is that once we’ve caught up they’ll appear more routinely. We are also trying to find that shared voice....
by Team BE | Mar 1, 2012 | All entries, Reflections, Social learning in organizations
We have just spent two days with the social learning team at Deutsche Bank. A dynamic project Banks have had a bad rap of late, so it was a really pleasant surprise to see the work they are doing. It did not seem an obvious home for an ambitious social learning...
by Team BE | Jan 30, 2012 | All entries, Publications, Theory
Communities of practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept This article was written by Etienne in 2009 for a textbook co-published by the Open University and Springer. It does two things. It relates the conceptual framework of...
by Team BE | Jan 1, 2012 | All entries, Resources, Social learning capability, Theory
We may know what we need to know to deal with many of the world’s complex problems; what we don’t have as a system is the learning capability to deal with them. After a talk on the subject of social learning capability at the WHO, a doctor shared the following...
