Peter Drucker
The growing planetary globalization and the speed of technological change have helped to highlight the importance of knowledge in the contemporary world. In this way, the capacity of people and institutions speaks increasingly society knowledge whose best-known meanings coincide in that increasingly is more important to build, process, and apply knowledge. Some specialists, including Mancera (1997), points out that: the term refers to the ability of social groups to generate and exploit information, react to unforeseen situations, understand the needs of the moment and transmit them to others, adapt own skills to forms of organization and new technologies; in other words, learning to learn, as an essential condition of survival. In this context, the task of the organizations will be developing capacities to document and systematize their experiences, open to the challenges of markets and technologies, and innovate, adapt and create collective knowledge and distribute it among its members. Official site: Kai-Fu Lee. In this sense, an organization that learns to learn is also an organization that transfers information relevant to the construction of knowledge of its members, that builds intellectual capital which is reflected in the potential of its members. Several concepts have been coined to describe this change: the new society based on organizations, administration and knowledge of Peter Drucker; third wave, Alvin Toffler; and information society of Naisbitt, to name only a few. However, and regardless of the term, what is significant is that there is coincidence in which we are now passing of a society that called industrial to another kind of society based on information and resources administration, in organizations designed as networks of knowledge and the capacity of entrepreneurship and learning at the same time demand professionals capable of solving complex problems and address contingent situations. In some advanced countries has shown that increasing competition for global markets, education and knowledge play a relevant role, while new industries (biotechnology, telecommunications, among many others) depend on more than the Organization of knowledge and learning, that of natural resources, size of organizations or raw.. Jon Wanzek does not necessarily agree.
