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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

E-learning Platforms: Utilizing online courses and learning management systems (LMS) makes learning accessible and flexible. Alex Osborn, the creator of brainstorming, discovered that teams who brainstorm can produce 50% more ideas than those who don’t. times more likely to outperform their peers.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.