Category Archives: organisational learning
Using participatory design for redesigning organisations
I awoke to a beautiful morning in Melbourne today – perhaps Spring is finally on our doorstep and realised that in fact I was supposed to be in beautiful Spain today instead delivering a paper at the Information Seeking in … Continue reading
Choose your own adventure or sometimes adventure creeping up and choosing you
Over the past year I have been greatly inspired and in some cases quite envious of several people I have crossed paths or tweets with who have had the courage to quit their jobs to discover or rediscover that ‘thing’ … Continue reading
Enterprise microblogging (part 3): the benefit of hindsight
Let’s do a quick recap: In Part 1 CPA Australia fell in love with Yammer (our chosen enterprise microblogging platform). Part 2 saw us identifying benefits we’ve experienced and in this final instalment, almost 18 months after implementation I share … Continue reading
Filed under enterprise 2.0, organisational learning, web 2.0
Enterprise microblogging (part 2): ‘all of us are smarter than any of us’
Quick recap: CPA Australia has approximately 450 employees in 16 offices across 11 countries serving upwards of 130 000 members. In part 1 we focused on my workplace love story of introducing the enterprise microblogging platform Yammer. This middle child … Continue reading
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Enterprise microblogging (part 1): A love story
Motivated by presenting our story at VALA2010 on Thursday (so this is a preview teaser!) – this post forms Part 1 in a 3 part series on the implementation of enterprise microblogging within my workplace. Part 2 and 3 will … Continue reading
Filed under enterprise 2.0, organisational learning, twitter, web 2.0
Do you trust me? Play in the workplace
This evening I attended KMLF in Melbourne and had the privilege of listening to Stuart French discuss corporate culture and choosing appropriate collaboration tools based on application rather than on the actual tool (amongst other things). On his blog, Stuart … Continue reading
Filed under organisational culture, organisational learning
Organisational re-learning: the five R’s
Today I presented the ideas of organisational re-learning to a group of librarians at the University of Colorado, Denver. It is perhaps the most unattractive powerpoint presentation I have ever developed however shortness of time did not allow the usual … Continue reading
Zaana Howard = PhD student, design thinking, service design, social learning, knowledge management, social innovation, sometime artist, (ex?) librarian = generalist
