Evaluating Statebuilding Support: Learning from Experience or Judging from Assumptions?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörn Grävingholt ◽  
Julia Leininger
Keyword(s):  
Learning From Experience

Learning from experience: A structured methodology based on TOC

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Eli Schragenheim ◽  
Avner Passal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Theory Of Constraints ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
The Right

This paper presents a structured methodology for learning from experience. It uses the Thinking Processes of the Theory of Constraints with some changes. The objective of the methodology is to learn from single events to identify flawed mental models, update them and fix the processes and norms that have been based on the flawed model. The methodology as such could be used as a managerial control mechanism, especially at times of change, to keep the organization on the right direction pointed by the top management.

Learning from experience: The value of analysing Avalon

Religion ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Learning From Experience

Mandatory urban rainwater harvesting: learning from experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 1200-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Gabe ◽  
Sam Trowsdale ◽  
Diveshkumar Mistry
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Rainwater harvesting is effectively mandated in several urban areas of New Zealand. To understand the costs and benefits of rainwater harvesting from an end-user perspective, semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 homeowners in northern Auckland affected by these regulations. Residents report differences in four aspects of urban rainwater infrastructure – security of supply, water quality, the learning process and financial costs – that could represent key values for public acceptance. When responses are examined from the perspective of experience that has built empirical knowledge, participants explained how their satisfaction with rainwater harvesting increased over time. We hypothesise that for those lacking experience, urban rainwater consumption is a function of empirical knowledge and has initially rising marginal utility. Regulation that recognises the costs of social learning is likely to be a more effective pathway towards maximising the social benefits associated with integrated urban water management.

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