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Bringing Design Thinking to schools - if kids can do it why not employees?

"Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D. is a leading consultant on gamification as a business model to increase customer engagement. She also holds a Ph.D. in behavioral psychology. In 2010, Kim reworked Bartle's Player Types Model. She replaced the "Killer" type with "Express" -- a much more business- and school-friendly descriptor! Completing the axis, "Compete" took the place of "Achiever," "Explore" replaced "Explorer," and "Collaborate" replaced "Cooperate.""

Article on senior managers' 'Personal Knowledge Infrastructure'. Davide Nicolini, Prof of Organizational Studies at Warwick Business School and Director of KIN

" "These days, more than ever, size matters in the innovation game," said John Kao, a former professor at the Harvard business school and an innovation consultant to governments and corporations.In its economic recovery package, the Obama administration is financing programs to generate innovation with technology in health care and energy....."

"Sloane MIT Review article"

"Prof Gary Hamel of Harvard Business School uses the metaphor of learning golf as a way of illustrating the futility of simply providing tools for innovation"

The KIN Autumn 2011 Workshop is on the Future of Work. Blog from Lynda Gratton from London Business School.

YouTube video showing the collaboration site developed for members of the Future of Work Consortium. This project is headed by Prof Lynda Gratton of London Business School

Learning to perform a job by watching others and copying their actions is not a great technique for corporate knowledge transfer. Christopher G. Myers suggests a better approach: Coactive vicarious learning.

" DIUS annual UK Innovation Report"

"Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors"

I wonder what plans Warwick Business School have for expansion into China. I must find out.

Every time I go to WBS, it feels like China!

Video from a series of events at British Council looking at 'How we learn' this video is one session where Sam Conniff looks at the difference in the world of learning and education. He talks about the 'sharing economy' bring the largest growing market in the works and then changes technology is having on what we teach in schools worldwide, including the fact that 70% of all on-one content is video, making the creation of content closer to the user. Highlighting the top things people learning on-line using the search 'how to...' Play in instrument, learn a language and write code.Sam also explores the notion of 'Learning how to learn', 'being connected to the internet everywhere', & 'transparency' and how these will change Education & how we will need to interact in a more ethical way (26:40 - 43:00)