
The Future of Corporate Universities
How Your Company Can Benefit from Value and Performance-Driven Organisational Development
Richard Dealtry(Author)
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 27. September 2017
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-78743-346-5 (ISBN)
Description
The corporate university is a whole-organisation endeavour for today, tomorrow and for the future, raising questions about the size and shape of your business and where you aim to reach. This book introduces you to the major areas of corporate university performance and value management, examining the evolution of the corporate university alongside emergent business challenges. It provides the pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle for you to assemble using the key disciplines and skills within your organisation.
Change is an integral part of business life, and it can seriously affect your company's value. Gaining a good understanding of how all business processes add value to your company is vital. The aim of this book is to help you to access new ways to create a widespread culture of people and organisational development. You will discover effective management practices that will help you and your colleagues to become the leading agents of continuous change and development in all parts of your organisation. With the help of the corporate university model, your company can develop business solutions to resolve the challenges ahead in a changing world.
Change is an integral part of business life, and it can seriously affect your company's value. Gaining a good understanding of how all business processes add value to your company is vital. The aim of this book is to help you to access new ways to create a widespread culture of people and organisational development. You will discover effective management practices that will help you and your colleagues to become the leading agents of continuous change and development in all parts of your organisation. With the help of the corporate university model, your company can develop business solutions to resolve the challenges ahead in a changing world.
Reviews / Votes
Dealtry, who works in the design and performance management of business-inspired new learning, has held senior management roles in restructuring and development, and has been a consultant specializing in top management processes for real-time development, explains how to manage the corporate university development process, detailing the key areas of performance and value management. Using case examples and projects throughout for illustration, he covers managing research reporting, including a research methodology for reviewing the effectiveness of corporate university development, the dynamics at the midpoint of the development of the corporate university paradigm in a large public company, the formation and forward planning of a transnational best practice networking development project (ECUANET - The European Corporate Universities and Academies Network), and quality management of demand-led learning and development. He addresses design parameters, including managing the learning curve, establishing a methodology for appraising the strategic potential of the university, configuring the university, and learning accreditation; strategic considerations, including managing intellectual leadership, self-directed learning, and optimizing the strategic management of demand-led learning; and enhancing management in practice, with discussion of managing the issue of learning relevance, the evolving character of the corporate university and the emergent nature of its real-time development practices, the university's role in managing learning organization innovation, the design and management of a lifelong learning curriculum, and concepts and ideas for senior executives and management teams related to the development of the intrinsic value of their companies, such as goodwill value and intellectual equity. Chapters have been adapted from previously published material. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78743-346-5 (9781787433465)
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Richard Dealtry
The Future of Corporate Universities
How Your Company Can Benefit from Value and Performance-Driven Organisational Development
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Person
Richard is the founder of the Global Association of Corporate Universities and Academies (G-ACUA). He has held senior management roles in restructuring and development in organisations such as GKN, the Scottish Office, the Arabian Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting and the Battelle Memorial Institute. He was the lead partner in an independent consulting group specialising in top management processes for real time development and became the co-ordinating partner in the European Commission's ECUANET Programme. He is widely published and is a key adviser on performance matters to companies in many countries.
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Chief Executive of the Global Association of Corporate Universities and Academies, UK
Content
Frequently Asked Questions with Reference to the Corporate UniversityCase Research into Corporate University Developments
Case Research into the Evolution of a Corporate University Development Process
ECUANET - European Corporate Academies Transnational Best Practice Network
Moving Towards Optimising Demand-led Learning
Managing the Corporate University Learning Curve
Establishing a Methodology for Appraising the Strategic Potential of the Corporate University
Configuring the Corporate University: Managing a Portfolio of Thinking Schools
Issues Relating to Learning Accreditation in Corporate University Management
Strategic Directions in the Management of the Corporate University Paradigm
Managing Intellectual Leadership in Corporate Value
The Savvy Learner
Global Corporate Priorities and Demand-led Learning Strategies
Managing the Issue of Learning Relevance in the Formulation of Corporate Learning Strategies
The Real Time Corporate University Becomes a Reality
The Corporate University's Role in Managing an Epoch in Learning Organisation Innovation
Design and Management of an Organisation's Lifelong Learning Curriculum
Hunting Goodwill Along the Intellectual Equity Trail
Case Research into the Evolution of a Corporate University Development Process
ECUANET - European Corporate Academies Transnational Best Practice Network
Moving Towards Optimising Demand-led Learning
Managing the Corporate University Learning Curve
Establishing a Methodology for Appraising the Strategic Potential of the Corporate University
Configuring the Corporate University: Managing a Portfolio of Thinking Schools
Issues Relating to Learning Accreditation in Corporate University Management
Strategic Directions in the Management of the Corporate University Paradigm
Managing Intellectual Leadership in Corporate Value
The Savvy Learner
Global Corporate Priorities and Demand-led Learning Strategies
Managing the Issue of Learning Relevance in the Formulation of Corporate Learning Strategies
The Real Time Corporate University Becomes a Reality
The Corporate University's Role in Managing an Epoch in Learning Organisation Innovation
Design and Management of an Organisation's Lifelong Learning Curriculum
Hunting Goodwill Along the Intellectual Equity Trail