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Some technologies eventually become like air... For a business that is looking at how it can use social software, it really boils down to two things... I always like Oscar Berg's work and this short piece adheres to that rule.
ARIE DE GEUS, former Corporate Planning Director, Royal Dutch Shell:
"The rate at which organisations learn may become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage."
AGILE ORGANISATIONS LEARN FASTER
than competitors and quicker than the environment around them is changing.
An optimal message for stakeholders is of how a workforce of committed human beings is being guided and motivated to pool wisdom, using the best tools available to learn from each other, about how to build a sustainable business that generates new value for all stakeholders.
Strategic learning focuses all knowledge-building efforts across a business on understanding what drives strategy, and on what improves its execution. Its purpose is that the learning should become integral and indistinguishable from strategy itself. It is an eternally iterative challenge, and it will become a core future competency of all successful organisations, to the detriment of those that are not.
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CHARLES DARWIN:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
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