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Toward Organizational Learning in the Singapore Police Force
Over the past two years, organizational learning has grown from a buzzword into an integral feature of the Singapore Police Force. It has been…
Using Learning Histories to Design Management Innovation
The field of organizational learning has long offered a rich selection of tools — from devices such as the Ladder of Inference to causal…
Change as Challenge: Taking Stock of Organizational Learning
W ith the publication of The Fifth Discipline in 1990, Peter Senge added significant momentum to the growing field of organizational learning (OL). The…
Step-By-Step Stocks and Flows: Improving the Rigor of Your Thinking
The systems thinking community has always considered stock and flow diagrams to be important tools, and recognition of their key place in the…
Steps Toward Organizational Learning: The Swiss Post
In 1992 the Swiss Post started to transform itself from part of a public institution into an autonomous, efficient, and competitive public enterprise. With…
Double-Loop Knowledge Management
These are trying times for the field of knowledge management. Shunned by many as little more than yesterday’s information technology trotted out in today’s…
Organizational Learning at Philips Display Components
What are the potential gains and pitfalls of launching an organizational learning initiative in a company whose governance model has historically been “top-down”? The…
Drifting Goals: The Challenge of Conflicting Priorities
It’s 7:30 a.m., and you are hurriedly getting your children ready for the day. You finally buckle everyone into the car, rush across town,…
Moonlighting in Germany
Imagine taking on a grueling second job in order to make ends meet—and then finding out that new tax laws will slash almost in…
The Ladder of Inference
How we act depends on how we understand the situation we are in. Our understandings often seem obvious to us, as if they were…