An important way organizations can learn is to ensure that every project has a learning outcome. In setting up a project team, some leading organizations eg. Toyota require team members to keep learning diaries to record what they have learnt. At the end of the project, the team is required to report on what they have learnt and how this learning will be used to ensure improvement in future projects. The team members are recognised and rewarded for the learning outcomes of the project.
Teams are critical to organisational learning and unlearning.
Therefore they need to develop learning cultures that support knowledge sharing, skill formation and innovation. This is a major challenge where it involves cross-cultural learning. That is shared learning between people who have different values, beliefs, behaviours and histories. Cultural differences occur between people from different occupations, professions, industries, organizations, networks and nations. These culturally diverse experiences need to be openly shared.