This is a test to see how it publishes

I am conducting research for a book and several magazine articles about the state of internet-driven organisational learning in Australia, and I'd like to ask if you'd be an interviewee or participant this research, on or off the record. I'm hosting a discussion page about it on LinkedIn called The Learning Economy: http://bit.ly/SA_LE.

For the purpose of driving this conversation, I link here (http://bit.ly/SA_HT) to a short "how-to" describing a learning methodology I've just "open sourced" that I call "Investigative Learning". Its purpose is to give businesses a way to use the internet to get better use out of the intelligence most organisations already contain.

In an age of profound technological advance that may see many jobs simply wiped out (see beneath), I believe this will be a necessity of competitive survival.

There is a more detailed FAQ here: http://bit.ly/SA_IL

Aside from being a former Fairfax Media business journalist with postgraduate qualifications in this subject, I am also a director in Shiro Architects (hence the address of this email), through which one theme of my writing concerns not just organisational learning practices but the built spaces in which they occur, and the implications for those who provide them. (I have just had a piece on this subject published on the property industry web site, The Urban Developer: bit.ly/1DElDgA)

The hypothesis I wish to test through the opinions of interviewees, is whether by failing to explore the full range of intellectual capacities their people possess, companies routinely squander the value of the possible knowledge and insight available to them. In so doing, do they also fail to understand the opportunities to reconfigure their businesses around that potential knowledge?

I hope you will agree to participate in this research, and look forward to the prospect of discussing it with you.

Kind regards

Graham Lauren

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0416 171724 learning.shiroarchitects.com

Investigative Learning will put to work knowledge your business didn't know it had.