Corporate universities : drivers of the learning organization

"Organizations constantly need to adapt themselves to stay aligned with an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment. Corporate Universities puts 'smart learning' in 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 strategic management and corporate learning disciplines, combining general strategy with the concept of corporate universities, which, to date, predominantly has 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 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"--