Agile Business Change Blog Thoughts on Agile Strategic Business Change and Agile Delivery

The book I'm reading at the moment is "The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age". The book links to a number of themes I'm interested in, particularly developing knowledge content and user generated content (and also a number of the drivers identified in the recent NCVO future of membership report).

The book looks at how new technology such as social networks and virtual environments will change how people learn. And although the book is aimed mainly at higher education, there is plenty of read across into the membership organisations as many are knowledge-based and/or educational.

I've just finished the chapter titled "Institutions as Mobilising Networks" which contrasts how institutions are often viewed - as rule-driven, centralised, old fashioned and slow moving - with how they could be - trend setting, dynamic, agile and innovative.

The key opportunity (or challenge, depending on how you look at it) is: to use social media and learning environments to aggregate, coordinate and disseminate knowledge and facilitate learning - to mobilise the network of members and other potential participants.

Taking up this challenge could dramatically improve engagement and knowledge development in an institution's area of interest.