Learning Organisation

The concept of the learning organization is that the successful organization must — and does — continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in environment and to grow. This raises a range of scholarly and theoretical questions relating to what it means for an organization to learn, and practical questions around what organizations need to do in order to learn and adapt.
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learns from mistakes, encourages enterprise and responsibility and therefore allows mistakes. A company is not a learning organisation unless it does things differently; to do things differently it must see things differently. This is very hard for older managers who have grown up in the old economy. There will be tension and war with younger managers. Because of this need to see things differently there is no correlation between investment and productivity for IT investments.