Today's overloaded worker has too much busy work and not enough time to focus on value creation. Complex work needs simplified design. I agree that systems will have to be agile but they will not "deliver" knowledge.

As Dave Jonassen says:

"Every amateur epistemologist knows that knowledge cannot be managed. Education has always assumed that knowledge can be transferred and that we can carefully control the process through education. That is a grand illusion."

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