Posterous seems a good spot for this. I will link later to
Experimentality and Cloudworks but from email mode the audience is
anonymous or at least not specific in this case.
I have done the slides about Plan Do Check/Study Act and also a text
on the "dark side" of Mode 2 Knowledge. Some feedback that they are
coherent enough to make some sort of point, but I could be more
explicit on where I am going with this.
So far Experimentality project has not connected much with
organisation and learning. As far as I can tell. What I think is that
there are blocks on this and once you get round them some things could
be fairly obvious.
I tried to get on the Management Learning course at Lancaster but it
appeared that working as a Quality Manager was not within the scope.
The question remains how people learn from quality systems or why this
is rare. Learning seems to be distinct from quality as a subject, if
quality is a subject. Maybe there is a company thing also about the HR
Department and Quality somewhere else. For most small business this is
not the case but the national organisations may assume it.
So the Institute for Advanced Studies is an advance in not being
restricted to one subject. However there is still some reluctance to
engage with practice. Not sure what this is but looking at the
supposed "dark side" of Mode Two could reveal the issues.
But maybe academics are just not concerned with Mode Two as a
priority. That would be something to clarify.
"University teaching is traditionally distant from professional
knowledge: pure research vs applied research. #communia"
antoesp just states this. more tweets needed as evidence.
So, assume there is some readiness to look at a Mode Two project on a temp basis
Assume the slides have shown some link between experimentality and learning
In the ten minutes left, look at web sites as cases.
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But first, the original idea was to look at "check" and "study" as two
different words. What is the difference and how can it work in Japan
but not in US / UK . ( I have gone fully into blog mode now,
unsupported generalisations will continue)
Maybe translation. "Study" from Deming but Ishakawa has more emphasis
on training. "Check" may not mean the same in Japanese as "good enough
to get on with".
I have managed to read the Knowledge-Creating Company once through but
usually get stuck very early on with the sections on the Japanese
Intellectual Tradition and comparisons with Descartes etc,
Kosaku Yoshida in ASQC Quality Management Journal "Revisiting Demings
14 points in light of Japanese business practice" volume 3 issue 1
1996
pages 16 and 17 on Analytic and Holistic Approaches : Desirability
and Acceptability concepts
holistic..even if each part is perfect, the whole may not be perfect
Japanese....establish what is most desirable. Americans tend to
specify what is acceptable
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/blog/check-study-web-sites-cases
if you log on you get my comments so changes since the post. it may
change a lot till the actual occasion.
What sort of review cycle is behind each site? What difference is made?
The Experimentality website may continue or publishing of various content
I cannot disguise my take that the Critical Management site is not
working at all. Almost no conversation as there is no content. Hey,
this is just a blog. The design is awful, it is really hard to use.
http://www.criticalmanagement.org/ Cloudworks is already working well and they are working on a redesign
with something on offer as open source. I have started a few clouds
already and will update after the conference.
http://www.cloudworks.ac.uk Networked Learning Conference has had very useful hotseat discussions
but no obvious way to post graphics (that is how I shifted into
Cloudworks) However they have now linked to video on another site.
Also the entire set of papers is there in PDF. Book follows.
http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ The CQI will have a Deming related site later in the year. More on
this later. Meanwhile, the blog
http://thecqi.info/ Stringbag is not yet open to the public. So this section will continue
as a blog or set of blogs. My own sites are a mess but this will
change.
