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The Learning Layer
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The Learning Layer

Building the Next Level of Intellect in Your Organization

Steven D. Flinn
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Adaptive systems innovator Steven D. Flinn focuses on the way “system thinking applications” can improve organizational learning and knowledge management. He explains how companies can create a “learning layer” within their information technology systems to educate employees and boost productivity and performance. getAbstract recommends Flinn’s book – despite its occasional opacity and some heavy-going circumlocutions – to business leaders who want to make the most forward-looking use of adaptable corporate learning. He offers a solid take on the learning layer as a way to foster organizational education, manage knowledge and make the most of information technology. The book also will intrigue futurists who focus on technology and business. Flinn makes it clear that the learning layer’s infinite capacity exactly fits Sir Arthur Clark’s contention, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Take-Aways

  • Information technology (IT) systems – if planned, built and implemented correctly – now have the unprecedented ability to become “adaptive learning networks” for corporate education.
  • This “learning layer” seamlessly merges systems, knowledge, information and people.
  • Such learning structures are modeled on the brain’s adaptive, evolving neural networks.

About the Author

Steven D. Flinn, former CIO of Royal Dutch Shell, is CEO and founder of ManyWorlds, Inc., an R&D firm. He also writes on music and on the ties between evolution and information theory.

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