You might find it useful to listen to Boss tapes I recorded on teams and on the need for organizations to develop a culture of continuous learning. First let me emphasise that organisational learning represents a significant conceptual shift away from the narrow traditions of training and development. Organisational learning requires rethinking the social architecture, information architecture and the physical architecture to enhance learning. For instance, offices and factories in the past were never designed around notions of learning. However it is not only possible but absolutely necessary to have physical design of space in organizations support notions of continuous learning.
Office design is too important to be left to traditional property people.
Similarly the information architecture is too important to be left to I.T. specialists and the social architecture too important to be left to staff functionaries. Physical, social and information design and development must be capable of responding to user experience and their learning. One successful way of doing this is selecting in house concept teams who are made responsible for the design, integration and delivery of new systems. The supporting Capex approvals must include organisational learning as one of the deliverables. The concept teams themselves have proved to be important learning opportunities and have been important in developing new organisational leaders.