Businesses that fail to address the critical need for Professional Learning Communities in the new economy will fall by the wayside. Professional Learning Communities in cyberspace will be the new foundation on which successful companies are based. As computers and communications unloose a million bits of information in every dimension, we see peerages form in every dimension. Top organizations know that richer experiences for the workers lead to richer results for the company, in profits, performance, and productivity. At Shell, deepwater engineers form to pass ideas and assistance around the world in record time.
Some communities focus upon innovation, others imply upon problem solving.
Their communities have already saved Shell millions. They are quickly beginning to create global policies such as removing the value added tax on medicines in Madagascar, and a central fuel fund in China.