The Future of Corporate Universities

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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) *