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Mark K Clare

Adjunct Faculty, MSLOC

Biography

Mark Clare has 20 years of experience in knowledge management, technology and business strategy with leading Fortune 500 companies that include 3M, Allstate and a Silicon Valley start-up. He is also active as an independent researcher, teacher, writer and consultant. Mark is author or co-author of many publications including the book Knowledge Assets (Harcourt, 2000) and holds a patent, with several others pending, for innovations in the cognitive design of financial products. Currently, Mark is the Vice President of Knowledge and Informatics Management at Parkview Health, a five-hospital non-profit health system serving northeastern Indiana.

Teaching/Advising
Courses

MSLOC 452 MSLOC Elective - Cognitive Design This course will introduce students to the methods and tools needed to design organizational improvements and generate new product ideas that support and enhance the cognition of employees and customers. Cognitive design is devoted to understanding how people perceive, think, remember, feel and relate in real world situations and using that understanding to drive innovations in products, processes, HR programs, change initiatives and other organizational improvements. Students will learn how to design organizational artifacts (e.g. new products, improved workflows, behavior change programs) that fit how the human mind works along both the intellectual and emotional dimensions. This is a project-based course where students work in teams to model cognition, identify unmet needs and apply leading ideas of applied cognitive science to pressing design challenges in business.

MSLOC 410-1 Foundations I This course will introduce students to foundational concepts and frameworks that can be used to anchor and integrate their learning throughout the MSLOC program. The course will cover methods and tools applied in multiple organizational settings to solve problems and increase individual, group and organizational effectiveness. Through class meetings and an action learning project that extends through three quarters, students will begin to apply organizational theory to the practice of organizational transformation.

This course counts as one half credit. Taken before Foundations II, the two courses together count as one credit.

MSLOC 410-2 Foundations II Foundations II is a continuation of the action learning project that was started in the Fall Foundations I course. Students will continue to meet with their project team members and action learning coach throughout the Winter and Spring quarters, resulting in the implementation of the initiative that the team chose to design. In addition to designing and implementing a solution to a real organizational challenge, applying the concepts and methods introduced through their MSLOC courses, students will practice reflection, critical thinking, project management, and leadership skills to achieve the professional development goals they selected for their individual learning plans.

This course counts for one half credit. Taken after Foundations I, the two of them together count for one full credit.

Last Updated: 2007-07-27 16:27:20

MSLOC 452		MSLOC Elective - Cognitive Design This course will introduce students to the methods and tools needed to design organizational improvements and generate new product ideas that support and enhance the cognition of employees and customers. Cognitive design is devoted to understanding how people perceive, think, remember, feel and relate in real world situations and using that understanding to drive innovations in products, processes, HR programs, change initiatives and other organizational improvements. Students will learn how to design organizational artifacts (e.g. new products, improved workflows, behavior change programs) that fit how the human mind works along both the intellectual and emotional dimensions. This is a project-based course where students work in teams to model cognition, identify unmet needs and apply leading ideas of applied cognitive science to pressing design challenges in business.



MSLOC 410-1		Foundations I This course will introduce students to foundational concepts and frameworks that can be used to anchor and integrate their learning throughout the MSLOC program. The course will cover methods and tools applied in multiple organizational settings to solve problems and increase individual, group and organizational effectiveness. Through class meetings and an action learning project that extends through three quarters, students will begin to apply organizational theory to the practice of organizational transformation. This course counts as one half credit. Taken before Foundations II, the two courses together count as one credit.

MSLOC 410-2		Foundations II Foundations II is a continuation of the action learning project that was started in the Fall Foundations I course. Students will continue to meet with their project team members and action learning coach throughout the Winter and Spring quarters, resulting in the implementation of the initiative that the team chose to design. In addition to designing and implementing a solution to a real organizational challenge, applying the concepts and methods introduced through their MSLOC courses, students will practice reflection, critical thinking, project management, and leadership skills to achieve the professional development goals they selected for their individual learning plans. This course counts for one half credit. Taken after Foundations I, the two of them together count for one full credit.