10.2 NATURE OF LEARNING ENTERPRISES

Learning organisations are “knowledge-creating companies.” They are places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialised activity…it is a way of behaving, indeed, a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker.”

Learning organisations are effective not only in creating and/or acquiring new knowledge, but also in applying that knowledge to their tasks and activities. Rapid realisation of new technology into products is a core competency of a learning enterprise.

In a learning organisation, the nature of one's job at any time is defined by problems and challenges facing the organisation as a whole. Every member of such an organisation is involved in discovering problems and suggesting solutions. ...

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