Learning from Experience
Systematically turning one's own experience into knowledge usable in the future.
What it means
Learning from experience requires reflection: what happened, why, and what it means going forward. Without recording it, the insight stays with the individual.
Why it matters
Experience without reflection doesn't repeat as knowledge — it repeats as luck.
A real-world example
After every major project, a short retrospective is held and its conclusions feed into the standards.
Insights gathered from past projects, incidents, or deviations and turned into usable knowledge.
The process by which an organization changes its practices based on experience gained.
The systematic improvement of processes based on experience and data from operations.
Experience gained from long-term work with a specific operation and its deviations.
An organization that systematically learns from its own experience and adapts its practices accordingly.