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Humans are biased, and the biases we encode into machines are then scaled and automated. This is not inherently bad (or good), but it raises the question: how do we operate in a world increasingly consumed with "personal analytics" that can predict race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, health status and much more.

Chris Collison explores some of the myths and realities of how organisations learn.

"This site provides KIN members with access to an online toolkit for Learning from Projects"

"'lessons learned' video from the national knowledge market held in in Liverpool late 2008 by Sellafield, on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority."

"summary of commercial and other reasons why it makes sense for organisaitons to leverage group learning."

"another useful pre-workhsop site - shows how neurological levels relate to how we learn."

"Daniel has written some Interesting articles and books looking at the future of learning and other KM related topics"

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time.\n\nEven so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time. Even so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

Not sure what a Workspace is? Cisco employee Mark Spencer faces his technology fears and learns how to work more effectively in the Web 2.0 world.

This technique is a way of gathering lessons learnt by encouraging project teams to talk about their experiences through stories. It builds and makes full use of this natural way in which we learn from each other and gain understanding about everyday life situations through storytelling

Excellent collection of articles and essays on the topic of knowledge and learning.

McKinsey have developed an approach to retention: to detect previously unobserved behavioural patterns, they combine various data sources with machine-learning algorithms. Workshops and interviews are used to generate ideas and a set of hypotheses. Over time they collected hundreds of data points to test. Then ran different algorithms to get insights at a broad organisational level, to identify specific employee clusters, and to make individual predictions. Finally they held a series of workshops and focus groups to validate the insights from our models and to develop a series of concrete interventions. The insights were surprising and at times counterintuitive. They expected factors such as an individual's performance rating or compensation to be the top predictors of unwanted attrition. But analysis revealed that a lack of mentoring and coaching and of "affiliation" with people who have similar interests were actually top of list. More specifically, "flight risk" across the firm fell by 20 to 40 percent when coaching and mentoring were deemed satisfying.

McKinsey have developed an approach to retention: to detect previously unobserved behavioural patterns, they combine various data sources with machine-learning algorithms. Workshops and interviews are used to generate ideas and a set of hypotheses. Over time they collected hundreds of data points to test. Then ran different algorithms to get insights at a broad organisational level, to identify specific employee clusters, and to make individual predictions. Finally they held a series of workshops and focus groups to validate the insights from our models and to develop a series of concrete interventions. The insights were surprising and at times counterintuitive. They expected factors such as an individual's performance rating or compensation to be the top predictors of unwanted attrition. But analysis revealed that a lack of mentoring and coaching and of "affiliation" with people who have similar interests were actually top of list. More specifically, "flight risk" across the firm fell by 20 to 40 percent when coaching and mentoring were deemed satisfying.

"As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field's researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know - or how they know it."

Crafty engineers leverage machine learning, graph theory, and AI to build smart solutions for growth-focused companies who want to use tomorrow's AI.

The application of AI to the development of smarter robo-advisers offers a dichotomy of hope or fear that it could yield 'intelligent' and cost-effective investment management advice.

What happens when we teach a computer how to learn?

"On this site you will find over 8000 pages of practical information, collected over the last 21 years. You can find anything from Gathering tree seeds to Gender and sanitation. Please tell us what you think of this site by emailing us. NEW: Quick off the blocks: UK adaptation finance and integrated planning report"

Mentioned at several KIN events including the Lessons Learned RoundTable