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Building Learning Communities (part 1)

For past couple of months I've been working on my latest book on Agile Learning and Knowledge Sharing - and have found a very close association of coaching with building a learning community within an organization. As someone said - "It is hapless without the hopeless, and the worthy for the just cause", needless to say it is important to look beyond the obvious and dig deep into the realms rather just the facts in order to attain the knowledge required by each individual or a group as a whole. I'm deeply inspired by the book "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge. Though the book has a total different meaning, cause and inspiration, but it fairly well talks about the elements for building learning communities and where they stems from. As the culture within the organizations develops overtime, and the breed of experience cogs starts to accumulate and a plethora of structure of work is built around the masses - it becomes known where all the knowledge is getting piled up and built. Knowledge creation is a key element for building the learning community, and Peter and his group talks about following key critical elements within knowledge creation:

Challenges in managing IT Operations

It can be a real challenge for a large organization to manage its IT operations when it doesn't have the right fusion of people, an effective delegation of leadership, the appropriate set of tools and processes in place, and the correct type of environment and resources in place. As the organization grows, so does its needs, which introduces complexities in almost every area of IT operations, whether applications, infrastructure or the new project work itself.

Changing faces of Outsourcing from Enterprises to Individual Developer

Imagine your work; a software module, assigned to you with a timeline of 1.5 weeks. And you tell your boss - that you are telecommuting. As you need to concentrate and all for this piece of work. Instead of working yourself, you delegate it to a software developer in India or Philippines or China. And check on and off with the progress and complete your task with in a week including testing. Sure, you are on your way to somewhere. Your boss is happy and you are happy and the software developer getting pennies for his work is happy as well.

DEFINE. MARKET. SOFTWARE. INTEGRATION. TODAY.

In the far competing market today we are crowded by thousands of small and medium sized companies. Things are pretty tough with the investment-hungry-crowds scattered around the various networks of business circles. The software industry is tighter than ever. The so-called-high-technology professionals are lying down low, accepting the challenge. The market today is not driven by mere h-o-o-p-l-a-h-s-a-n-d-u-h-s-a-n-d-a-h-s-o-f-t-e-c-h-n-o-l-o-g-y. Its driven by t-h-e-f-a-c-t-s. The reality is bitter than what it was couple of years ago. Things have changed. People have become more sane in accepting and knowing technology. They have become more realistic in knowing what's that which stands in their way in knowing the exact implementation of a certain technology. And most of all concerns about high ROI and low TCO.

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