Complexity, Innovation, Knowledge and Learning: A quantum interpretation of management

A next semester of holistic management courses

Since the semester has started again, happy to announce the re-start of the Euromedian Management Approach, a course that attempts to give the students a more holistic view on management.  You can follow their work in the discussion section of this blog, via the wiki-page link.  In groups of 5, they have to create a wiki reflecting their learning during the course.

We also start a course on knowledge management: the biology of business, in which we confront the students with the whole scala of knowledge forms: from rational to non-rational. More difficult to follow, but the best final assignments will be posted on the blog.

Re-inventing the e-learning wheel

Crossknowledge, a respected e-learning company, has published a "white book" (in French), on "Distance learning, for a more strategic HR management". The author is Steve Fiehl. I have the impression to go back a decade ago.

The study gives three conclusions. First, managers will take a growing role in the competency development of their co-workers. Wasn't that the definition of a manager in the first place ? Secondly, educators and pedagogical engineers should re-think their attitude.  They should understand that what they tell in the classroom is often perfectly readable in other sources. Wasn't that where we started 15 years ago ? The report announces the emergence of blended learning forms, that at least in my understanding is an issue dealt with already by many people (I just refer to my own book: The Hybrid Business School, 2000). The third conclusion I give you for free.

What eventually should not surprise us, is that the white book identifies as one of the "innovative practices" (with some case illustration) the industrialisation of "education" in all possible forms.  I hope that pedagogues will share my doubt about this good "commercial" wish. I am sure that experienced knowledge managers in companies have experienced differently.

Anyway, could we move on ?

Flamenco as an organisational metaphor

Within the framework of a "Theory of Flamenco" course, I made a contribution on "Flamenco as an organisational metaphor". It might give some ideas.  The original (Spanish) version will be published as a Euromed Marseille Working paper, shortly available on the SSRN site.

A holistic management course

In two weeks time, my course on our Euromedian Management Approach starts again. The students need to create in small groups a Wiki (just as last year). You can follow the emergence of these Wikis via the Discussion page of this blog (in the drop down menu).  On the reading page of this blog (in the drop down menu also) you can find the powerpoint presentations that we are going to use, as well as two example Wikis of last year's group.