Deiser Designing the Smart Organization

How Breakthrough Corporate Learning Initiatives Drive Strategic Change and Innovation
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-53561-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Filling a gap in the literature, this book offers an innovativeinterdisciplinary approach to learning for corporate strategicdevelopment, linking the domains of strategy, organizationaldesign, and learning. To demonstrate how this process drives theboundaries of the practice way beyond the established notion ofsimple training and management education, the book is filled withdetailed case studies from leading global organizations, includingSiemens, ABB, BASF, the US Army, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EADS,Novartis, and more. These studies reveal how large-scalecorporations are using the power of dynamic corporate learningapproaches to drive innovation, enhance cultural values, masterpost-merger integration, transform business models, enhanceleadership culture, build technological expertise, foster strategicchange processes, and ultimately increase bottom line results.
For any company that wants to compete in the 21stcentury, Designing the Smart Organization offers inspiringperspectives for integrating corporate learning as a core businesspractice that will create sustainable strategic and organizationalcapabilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deiser, Roland

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Exhibits.
Introduction.
Part One: Conceptual Foundation.
1 The Corporate Learning Imperative.
2 Enlarging the Framework of Learning.
3 The Integration of Learning with Business Processes.
4 Implications for the Corporate Learning Industry.
5 The Convergence of Strategy and Corporate Learning.
Part Two: Case Studies.
1 Innovating Learning Through Design and Architecture(Unicredit).
2 Top Executive Leadership Learning (Siemens).
3 Phoenix from the Ashes: How a Corporate Learning InitiativeReinvented an Ailing Business (ABB).
4 Healing Post-Merger Chasms: Creating Corporate Values from theBottom Up (EnBW).
5 Designing Customer Centricity for Multiple Market Segments: Theperspectives Project (BASF).
6 Transforming the U.S. Army Through an Informal LeadershipLearning Network (U.S. Army).
7 The Executive Hero's Journey: Going Places Where CorporateLearning Never Went Before (PricewaterhouseCoopers).
8 Managing the Strategic Asset of Cutting-Edge TechnologicalExpertise (EADS).
9 Leadership Learning as Competitive Strategy in the Chinese Market(Novartis).
10 First Choice: The World's Largest Customer FocusInitiative (Deutsche Post DHL).
The Author.
Acknowledgments.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Deiser is the founder and executive chairman of the European Corporate Learning Forum (ECLF) and serves as a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication. He is an internationally recognized expert on strategy, organizational design, and innovation, with a focus on building strategic capabilities into large-scale systems. His professional work is strongly rooted both in both academia and practice.