Learning Organizations Article Review
Dustin Buckner
MGT 426
December 21, 2015
Glorieta Robinson

Learning Organizations Article Review
I read “Strategies for Creating a Learning Organization” written by William King. This was a good article that gave a definition of learning organizations and talked about six different strategies for creating a learning organization: Knowledge management, intellectual property management, innovation, organizational learning, individual learning, and information systems.
Information systems was talked about first. It is the collection of data and the process of turning that data into useful and valuable information. Almost all companies use this type of learning organization strategy. We definitely use this where I work. I work for a small business that sells window coverings. Being in sales we take all types of data and use it. We find out how many appointments we have had and sales we have made to determine our closing ratio which helps us see how successful we are. This is a tool all companies should be using.
Next the author talked about the intellectual property management strategy. This strategy is where a company will use their intellectual property as leverage to create additional value. This strategy is made more usable along side of the information sysytems strategy. The concept of this strategy is to the companies knowledge can be thought of as an asset with which they want to maximize the return on that asset.
The third strategy discussed was the individual learning strategy. This strategy focuses on enhancing the value of the organizations individuals working for them. This strategy uses both formal and informal learning by using things like; corporate universities, on the job training, apprenticeship programs, and self pace online learning programs. A company implementing or using this strategy is essentially