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“To succeed now, we have to continually refresh our stocks of knowledge by participating in relevant “flows” of knowledge – interactions that create knowledge or transfer it across individuals. These flows occur in any social, fluid environment that allows firms and individuals to get better faster by working with others.
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To get a sense of the difference between stocks of knowledge and knowledge flows, imagine a car mechanic trying to keep up with the rapidly changing technologies embedded in today’s cars. A mechanic falling back on the training she received at the outset of her work life would be hopelessly lost with today’s computer systems. Even attending additional training programs or reading manuals would not be sufficient to keep up. There would likely be a need to connect with other mechanics and perhaps even the manufacturer to problem-solve unanticipated issues with the cars coming for repairs. Without access to these flows of knowledge, the mechanic would soon be out of a job. And a good mechanic would not just wait until a specific problem arose. In one way or another, we all are becoming more active in professional gatherings where we can pick up knowledge through discussions with others that will ultimately prove useful in our work.
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Refreshing the stocks of what we know by participating in flows of new knowledge is fundamental to performance improvement, no matter the endeavor, both for individuals and, more broadly, for institutions.
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Unfortunately, this represents a significant challenge for our existing institutions, since they have been organized around the proposition that economic value comes from protecting existing stocks of knowledge and efficiently extracting the value that these stocks of knowledge represent.”
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Quais eram as instituições no mundo pré-internet que representavam o conhecimento, a fonte do conhecimento?
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As universidades!!!
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O que se passa com as universidades em todo o mundo?
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Falta de financiamento e falta de alunos.
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Por cá, a título de exemplo “O facto que o comprova está nas excepções de que vão beneficiar as universidades nos cortes orçamentais previstos para este ano”. Ou seja, cortes no orçamento, mais tarde ou mais cedo.
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“"Universidades privadas perdem 3000 alunos por ano" de onde retiro as seguintes afirmações: "Universidades culpam a demografia e a “concorrência desleal” do Estado. e "cada “cabeça” que rola do lado do Estado é uma potencial oportunidade que surge do lado dos privados."” ()
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Sexta-feira encontrei este artigo “Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation” e ao pensar no futuro das universidades não consigo deixar de pensar na forma como termina o artigo “Real innovations threatens cash cows, and one of the most difficult things for any company to do is undermine their own cash cows. So stop worrying about some big, successful company copying your idea. If it's really innovative, they probably won't even notice it... until it's too late.”
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As universidades e as escolas profissionais vão pelo mesmo caminho... num mundo em que o conhecimento é cada vez mais importante, num mundo em que é cada vez mais importante participar no fluxo de conhecimento em vez de o deter e guardar a sete chaves, onde estão as universidades?
“To succeed now, we have to continually refresh our stocks of knowledge by participating in relevant “flows” of knowledge – interactions that create knowledge or transfer it across individuals. These flows occur in any social, fluid environment that allows firms and individuals to get better faster by working with others.
.
To get a sense of the difference between stocks of knowledge and knowledge flows, imagine a car mechanic trying to keep up with the rapidly changing technologies embedded in today’s cars. A mechanic falling back on the training she received at the outset of her work life would be hopelessly lost with today’s computer systems. Even attending additional training programs or reading manuals would not be sufficient to keep up. There would likely be a need to connect with other mechanics and perhaps even the manufacturer to problem-solve unanticipated issues with the cars coming for repairs. Without access to these flows of knowledge, the mechanic would soon be out of a job. And a good mechanic would not just wait until a specific problem arose. In one way or another, we all are becoming more active in professional gatherings where we can pick up knowledge through discussions with others that will ultimately prove useful in our work.
…
Refreshing the stocks of what we know by participating in flows of new knowledge is fundamental to performance improvement, no matter the endeavor, both for individuals and, more broadly, for institutions.
.
Unfortunately, this represents a significant challenge for our existing institutions, since they have been organized around the proposition that economic value comes from protecting existing stocks of knowledge and efficiently extracting the value that these stocks of knowledge represent.”
.
Quais eram as instituições no mundo pré-internet que representavam o conhecimento, a fonte do conhecimento?
.
.
.
.
As universidades!!!
.
O que se passa com as universidades em todo o mundo?
.
Falta de financiamento e falta de alunos.
.
Por cá, a título de exemplo “O facto que o comprova está nas excepções de que vão beneficiar as universidades nos cortes orçamentais previstos para este ano”. Ou seja, cortes no orçamento, mais tarde ou mais cedo.
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“"Universidades privadas perdem 3000 alunos por ano" de onde retiro as seguintes afirmações: "Universidades culpam a demografia e a “concorrência desleal” do Estado. e "cada “cabeça” que rola do lado do Estado é uma potencial oportunidade que surge do lado dos privados."” ()
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Sexta-feira encontrei este artigo “Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation” e ao pensar no futuro das universidades não consigo deixar de pensar na forma como termina o artigo “Real innovations threatens cash cows, and one of the most difficult things for any company to do is undermine their own cash cows. So stop worrying about some big, successful company copying your idea. If it's really innovative, they probably won't even notice it... until it's too late.”
.
As universidades e as escolas profissionais vão pelo mesmo caminho... num mundo em que o conhecimento é cada vez mais importante, num mundo em que é cada vez mais importante participar no fluxo de conhecimento em vez de o deter e guardar a sete chaves, onde estão as universidades?
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O que estão a fazer para participar nesta corrida? Como podem integrar-se nesta necessidade crescente dos profissionais apaixonados precisarem de estar no fluxo? Que tribos estão a alimentar?
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Será que as cash cows de hoje, e aqui não me refiro só ao dinheiro mas também aos instalados do sistema, estão tão preocupados com a defesa do status quo que só vão perguntar, daqui a alguns anos "O que aconteceu?"
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Para participar nesta corrida teriam de fazer uma mudança de paradigma mental... teriam de deixar de olhar para o umbigo e pensar em algo que lhes é completamente estranho... a noção de cliente.
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Uma desculpa será "Não tinhamos dinheiro e, uma mudança destas não se faz sem dinheiro".
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Não passará de uma desculpa:
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“Ironically, one thing that many promising startup companies suffer from is having too much capital. Once a company gets burdened with too much investor capital, it starts to think that it needs to grow very quickly. Almost always, a startup’s first strategy is wrong. Once they get out into the marketplace and try to sell things, they find that many of the things that they had assumed are untrue, and that their strategy needs recalibrating. But when a company is overcapitalized, the founders can assume that they’re right for quite a while before they start to need to depend on peoples’ willingness to pay. The more capital, the longer a company can go without testing its fundamental assumptions. Tough economic circumstances tend to keep capitalizations lower, so in general, in the long term, I think that lean economic times can foster a proliferation of disruptive companies.” (Moi ici: Tal como Tony Hsieh conta no seu livro acerca da história da Zappos, os primeiros anos foram de crónica falta de dinheiro o que os obrigou a fazer vários testes no modelo de negócio porque estavam sempre a olhar para o dinheiro em caixa.)
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Basta olhar para os cadernos especiais dos semanários com a lista dos mestrados nas instituições de ensino superior em Portugal... qual a relação dos nomes com os desafios concretos que os profissionais sentem na vida real?
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