Designing the smart organization
Subtitle: how breakthrough corporate learning initiatives drive strategic change and innovation
By: Roland Deiser
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780470490679; 9780470535592
Subjects: Organizational change; Organizational learning
Description: "Increased competition in the international marketplace and the volatile and ever-changing economic landscape have put the spotlight on corporate learning as a business function that can help determine and sustain long-term business success." "Written by Roland Deiser - an internationally acclaimed expert on building strategic capabilities into large-scale systems - Designing the Smart Organization outlines an innovative paradigm of corporate learning that can help any organization achieve remarkable results. In this groundbreaking book, Deiser abandons the traditional thinking about corporate learning and redefines it as the core engine for building sustainable "strategic competence" into the DNA of a firm. Thus corporate learning becomes an indispensable enabler of continuous strategic innovation and change." "Designing the Smart Organization provides a framework for a more comprehensive and strategic perspective of the corporate learning agenda that puts special emphasis on integrating learning interventions with the strategic process of the firm. To demonstrate how this process drives the boundaries of the practice way beyond the established notion of simple training and management education, the book is filled with case studies from leading companies and organizations including ABB, EADS, Siemens, Novartis, BASF, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the U.S. Army. These studies reveal how leading large-scale and cutting-edge global corporations are using the power of dynamic corporate learning approaches to drive innovation, enhance cultural values, master post-merger integration, transform business models, build technological expertise, foster strategic change processes, and ultimately increase bottom-line results." "For any company that wants to compete in the twenty-first century, Designing the Smart Organization offers inspiring perspectives for integrating corporate learning as a core business practice that will create sustainable strategic and organizational capabilities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The corporate learning imperative; title: Enlarging the framework of learning; title: The integration of learning with business processes; title: Implications for the corporate learning industry; title: The convergence of strategy and corporate learning; title: Innovating learning through design and architecture (Unicredit); title: Top executive leadership learning (Siemens); title: Phoenix from the ashes: how a corporate learning initiative reinvented an ailing business (ABB); title: Healing post-merger chasms: creating corporate values from the bottom up (EnBW); title: Designing customer centricity for multiple market segments: the perspectives project (BASF); title: - Transforming of the U.S. Army through an informal leadership learning network (U.S. Army); title: The executive hero's journey: going places where corporate learning never went before (PricewaterhouseCoopers); title: Managing the strategic asset of cutting-edge technological expertise (EADS); title: Leadership learning as competitive strategy in the Chinese market (Novartis); title: First Choice: the world's largest customer focus initiative (Deutsche Post DHL).