Einstein said, "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
Providing the right environment for learning is critical for the implementation and adoption success of any technology—including project management technology. That being said, creating the right environment requires that we consider how it is that people learn. In David Wrick’s book, The Project Management Imperative: Mastering the Key Survival Skill for the 21st Century, he suggests that effective learning requires both explicit and tacit mechanisms for transferring knowledge.
- Explicit Knowledge is transmitted in formal, systematic language. It’s what we learn in training programs, manuals, and by reading books.
- Tacit Learning is personal, context-specific, and hard to formalize and communicate. In most cases, it requires face-to-face interaction and is very dependent on the context where the knowledge is to be applied.
Because there are some things you can’t learn from reading a book (explicit knowledge), @task has developed an implementation and adoption plan that creates a framework of experience, collaboration, and the time for tacit learning to take place. This type of knowledge (tacit learning) is best obtained by exposure to working project management professionals. "Tacit knowledge transfer requires … contract and a willingness to share information," writes Wrick.
@task’s approach takes both explicit and tacit learning into account with three proven keys to help your organization successfully implement @task’s project management software in your organization.
- People: People-focused consulting and training services are a critical component to successful @task implementation and adoption success.
- Process: @task helps identify and implement business processes and best practices that will enable any company to focus on the projects that best align with corporate strategic and financial goals.
- Technology: Implementing @task to best meet the needs of an organization is crucial to success. A one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t work. From setup, to evaluation, and validation—a work management expert helps optimize @task’s state-of-the-art project management technology to meet customer needs.
By addressing the way people process information and learn, @task’s focus on people, process, and technology facilitates a quick and successful implementation so the workforce can focus on those activities that will provide the most value. Project management expert and author Harvey Levine calls it, "Bringing the organization to a desired future state."
@task Professional Services can help your organization:
- Achieve successful adoption
- Streamline implementation
- Incorporate project management best practices
- Get up and running quickly
- Facilitate a focused workforce
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Nice to be quoted. Yes, focusing on using resources to move toward a desired future state is the ticket. I must acknowledge, however, that the “future state” idea came to me from something that I read by Demian Entekin. Best wishes, Harvey Levine
Harvey, thanks for contributing to the conversation. Keeping everyone in the organization focused on those things that provide the most value is the key to successful project-based work.