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CONCLUSION – BECOMING A LEARNING ORGANISATION
This anthology has sought to explore how housing organisations can navigate the
dramatic and continuous changes affecting the industry; and how they can best prepare
for the future by taking a strategic approach to learning and skills development.
This anthology is far from the last word in our conversation about skills and learning for
the future. At CIH we want you to join us in this conversation. The writer Isaac Asimov
once wrote ‘It is change, continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant
factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into
account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be’. 73 The housing industry
is collectively learning to embrace the inevitability of change; and key to surviving and
thriving in this new world will be a strategic commitment to skills and learning aligned
to business and social value. This will involve new ways of working and it will require
corporate commitment to and investment in new ways of learning. But as former US
President Bill Clinton once observed ‘the price of doing the same old thing is far higher
than the price of change’.
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