Should diversity of workforce be reflected in diversity on working practices, or is it valid for company to say some practices are non-negotiable.
Noting a 2009 study coauthored by Sherbin and the Center's founder Sylvia Ann-Hewlett titled Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited, she said, "Over 89 percent of women are desperate to come back to work but cannot because of lack of flex work options."
The importance of social networks is highlighted by
Rob Cross, Andrew Parker,
Laurence Prusak, and Stephen P. Borgatti, who recently found that
“despite easy access to a world class knowledge management system and
other accessible information sources, 85% of the managers [they studied]
indicated [they got] information that had an impact on the success of a
project from their personal network.”
Estee Solomon Gray, formerly of Xerox, and John Seely Brown, director of
the Palo Alto Research Center and chief scientist for Xerox, note that
“the real genius of organizations is the informal, impromptu, often
inspired ways that real people solve real problems in ways that formal
processes can’t anticipate. When you’re competing on knowledge, the name
of the game is improvisation, not standardization.”
Ed Schein at MIT defines culture as the sum of solutions
to yesterday’s problems.
Middle section discusses "data, information, knowledge, wisdom".
Next section discusses how we get data from sensors and turn that into knowledge. But it doesn't translate into wisdom, which is an entirely different order of attribute.