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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Making Sense of Knowledge Transfer and Social Capital Generation for a Pacific Island Aid Infrastructure Project
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Manu, Christopher; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate how lessons learned from a case study of a construction project undertaken in the Pacific Islands relates to the interaction between social capital and knowledge transfer. The paper is reflective in nature focusing upon the experiences of one of the authors, being a Pacific Islander and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Capital, Construction Programs, Program Administration
Knowledge Wisdom and Networks: A Project Management Centre of Excellence Example
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Walker, Derek H. T.; Christenson, Dale – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: This conceptual paper aims to explain how "project management centres of excellence (CoEs)", a particular class of knowledge network, can be viewed as providing great potential for assisting project management (PM) teams to make wise decisions. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a range of knowledge network types and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Decision Making Skills, Social Capital, Knowledge Level
Advancing Project Management in Learning Organizations
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Bourne, Lynda; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2004
Effective project managers are required to have both "hard" technical skills to help control the iron triangle of time, cost and functional scope as well as relationship management skills to work effectively with people and get the best out of them. This paper argues that project managers also need a third skill: we refer to it as tapping into the…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Learning Processes, Stakeholders, Administrator Attitudes
Preparing for Organisational Learning by HK Infrastructure Project Joint Ventures Organizations.
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Walker, Derek H. T.; Johannes, Derick S. – Learning Organization, 2003
Interviews with nine Hong Kong managers involved in joint ventures with other organizations focused on the organizational learning aspects of collaboration: attitudes toward interorganizational learning, acquisition of knowledge assets, and learning motivation. An important motivation for developing alliances was to learn from each other, fill…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Organizational Culture
Boeing--A Case Study Example of Enterprise Project Management from a Learning Organization Perspective.
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Szymczak, Conrad C.; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2003
The evolution of the Boeing Company illustrates how to achieve an enterprise project management culture through organizational learning. Project management can be a survival technique for adapting to change as well as a proactive mechanism. An organizational culture that supports commitment and enthusiasm and a knowledge management infrastructure…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture