I'm a student looking at organisational learning in virtual businesses for
British Telecom in the UK. A colleague recently pointed out to me the
growth in the market for "data warehousing", and suggested that the
development of this type of application would seem to provide at least a
partial answer to the question of how organisations learn. There is much
more to organisational learning than having a software application to
collect and distribute information, but having taken a look at this, it
seems to be a very valid technique for collecting and distributing
knowledge within an organisation - particularly, for a virtual
organisation which is based around electronic communications media.
Incorporating such tools into a business seems to be the way to go to
introduce learning at an organisational level; playing devils advocate for
a moment, if a business does communuicate a high level of its information
electronically then this information can be extracted much more easily
than having the people doing the work engaging in additional tasks. I'd
appreciate the groups thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Pete Hornsby (peter.hornsby@bt-sys.bt.co.uk)
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