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Continuous Learning Culture The Continuous Learning Culture competency describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals—and the enterprise as a whole—to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation. This is achieved by becoming a learning organization, committing to relentless improvement, and promoting a culture of innovation.

It is one of the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. Each core competency is supported by a specific assessment, which enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency.

Why Continuous Learning Culture? Organizations today face an onslaught of forces that create both uncertainty and opportunity. The pace of technology innovation is beyond exponential. Startup companies challenge the status quo by transforming, disrupting, and in some cases eliminating entire markets. Juggernaut companies like Amazon and Google are entering entirely new markets such as banking and healthcare. At any moment, political, economic, and environmental turmoil threaten to change the rules. Expectations from new generations of workers, customers, and society as a whole challenges companies to think and act beyond balance sheets and quarterly earnings reports. Due to all of these factors and more, one thing is certain: organizations in the digital age must be able to adapt rapidly and continuously or face decline—and ultimately extinction.

What’s the solution? In order to thrive in the current climate, organizations must evolve into adaptive engines of change, powered by a culture of fast and effective learning at all levels.

Learning organizations leverage the collective knowledge, experience, and creativity of their workforce, customers, supply chain, and the broader ecosystem.

They harness the forces of change to their advantage. In these enterprises, curiosity, exploration, invention, entrepreneurship, and informed risk-taking replace commitment to the status quo while providing stability and predictability.

Rigid, siloed top-down structures give way to fluid organizational constructs that can shift as needed to optimize the flow of value.

Decentralized decision-making becomes the norm as leaders focus on vision and strategy along with enabling organization members to achieve their fullest potential.

Any organization can begin the journey to a continuous learning culture by focusing its transformation along three critical dimensions

The three dimensions are:

1. Learning Organization – Employees at every level are learning and growing so that the organization can transform and adapt to an ever-changing world.

2. Innovation Culture – Employees are encouraged and empowered to explore and implement creative ideas that enable future value delivery.

3. Relentless Improvement – Every part of the enterprise focuses on continuously improving its solutions, products, and processes.

This video utilizes some parts of information from the scaled agile website, for more details please visit www.scaledagileframework.com