https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/the-worst-of-best-practices-and-benchmarking/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/the-worst-of-best-practices-and-benchmarking/#comment-1355178 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:54:02 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1228#comment-1355178 […] practice alternative: look for emergent principles & infer what would on principle be best learnlets.com via […]

]]> https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/the-worst-of-best-practices-and-benchmarking/#comment-96715 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:06:32 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1228#comment-96715 […] I dug up the two following blog posts: What Is Scientifically Based Research? by Stephen Downes and The worst of best practices and benchmarking by Clark Quinn. […]

]]> https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/the-worst-of-best-practices-and-benchmarking/#comment-82142 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:41:49 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1228#comment-82142 […] practice alternative: look for emergent principles & infer what would on principle be best learnlets.com via […]

]]> https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/the-worst-of-best-practices-and-benchmarking/#comment-81955 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:18:52 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1228#comment-81955 Are you familiar with the concept of valorization? It is quite common in European Commission literature. The idea relates to the facilitating the appropriate adoption of innovation from successful projects in other contexts, something that in a multicultural context like the EU is vital. This might be a third way between the options you choose. I see it more as akin to the part of benchmarking that tends to get left out: the reflection on one’s own organization and how the practices identified in the benchmarking process may (or may not) be feasible in the new context.

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