Organizations constantly need to adapt themselves to stay aligned with an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment. Corporate Universities puts "smart learning" at the forefront, with strategies to secure alignment between organization and environment, which need both speed of learning and learning in the right direction. Across the globe, corporate universities have emerged as vehicles of such strategy-driven learning.
Corporate Universities bridges the gap between the disciplines of strategic management and corporate learning, combining general strategy with the concept of corporate universities, which, to date, has predominantly been an HR topic. Readers will find new concepts, as well as generic corporate university strategies to link corporate strategy to organizational learning. In-depth cases show how corporate universities are used to renew, transform, and optimize strategy and include important lessons learned by corporate university executives, from both small and global companies, as well as governmental organizations across different industries.
Written for academics in strategy, HRD, and organizational behaviour disciplines, as well as practicing managers alike, Corporate Universities is the first book that offers a consistent set of concepts, frameworks, and cases to integrate general strategy with organizational learning.
List of Illustrations
About the Author and the Co-Authors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 : Introduction : Corporate Universities
Chapter 2 : Strategy Development for Continuous Learning
Chapter 3 : Corporate University Strategy
Chapter 4 : Corporate University Value Creation and Learning Formats
Chapter 5 : Mars University : Raising the Bar
Chapter 6 : Deloitte University : Developing as One
Chapter 7 : Shell Project Academy : Developing a Learning Community
Chapter 8 : Canon Academy : Accelerating Transformation
Chapter 9 : Corporate University Strategy Renewal at ING
Chapter 10 : Bringing Speed to Knowledge : A Dean’s Journey
Chapter 11 : Corporate University Definitions, Literature, and Lessons Learned
Index
