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Boeing – a case study example of enterprise project management from a learning organisation perspective

Szymczak, Conrad C.; Walker, Derek H.T. - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 3, pp. 125-137

This paper helps explain the impact and potential for companies to better leverage knowledge and organisational learning from their portfolio of projects. It offers a model based on analysis of the development of the Boeing Company and from change management theory of a way to achieve an...

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An empirical study about the effect of cultural problematic on organizational learning in alliances

Dasí Rodríguez, Sonia; Martínez Pérez, Juan Francisco; … - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 3, pp. 138-148

In an environment where favoring organizational learning is imperative, the option of business cooperation is considered an optimal means to transmit knowledge between companies and to encourage the generation of new ones. But differences in organizational cultures of the cooperation partners...

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Diversity and learning in groups

Driver, Michaela - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 3, pp. 149-166

This paper examines how groups respond to diversity. Specifically, a framework is developed that integrates prior research on diversity in groups within a learning perspective. The value of the framework is that it seeks to integrate various dimensions of group diversity with the intent of...

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Organizational learning and product design management: towards a theoretical model

Chiva‐Gómez, Ricardo; Camisón‐Zornoza, César; … - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 3, pp. 167-184

Examines the relationship between organizational learning and product design management while, at the same time, analysing the repercussions they may have on performance, in the Spanish ceramic tile sector. A comparative case study of four companies from this sector enabled the construction of a...

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Learning in the workplace – an instrument for competence assessment

Lantz, Annika; Friedrich, Peter - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 3, pp. 185-194

The presented instrument for competence assessment is used in an attempt to make a systematic assessment of what and how much has been learned by an individual employee at a certain point of time in his/her career within an enterprise. Competencies in different work areas are treated: handling...

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Project management as a knowledge management primer: the learning infrastructure in knowledge‐intensive organizations: projects as knowledge transformations and beyond

Lytras, Miltiadis D.; Pouloudi, Athanasia - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 4, pp. 237-250

learning management infrastructure is required in order to realize every knowledge organization as a learning organization …

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Exploring the divide – organizational learning and learning organization

Sun, Peter Y.T.; Scott, John L. - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 4, pp. 202-215

The terminologies organizational learning and learning organization were once used interchangeably. However, in the mid … academic focus. Learning organization became the prescriptive stream with a strong practical focus. A broad theoretical … framework is presented that links the two streams. In the implementation of learning organization prescriptions, enormous …

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Improving organizational learning capability: lessons from two case studies

Goh, Swee C. - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 4, pp. 216-227

This paper describes a diagnostic tool to benchmark improvements in an organization’s learning capability over time. This diagnostic tool was used by two different organizations that embarked on a change program to improve their learning capability. Access to these two organizations has...

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Examining the linkages between team learning behaviors and team performance

Chan, Christopher C.A.; Lim, Lynn; Kuan Keasberry, Siew - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 4, pp. 228-236

Despite a plethora of studies purporting that learning could occur at the individual, team and organizational levels, there is still a lack of reported empirical evidence on these linkages. Accordingly, these theoretical assumptions will be tested with empirical evidences in this study....

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Towards better qualitative performance measurement in organizations

Yih‐Tong Sun, Peter; Scott, John L. - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 5, pp. 258-271

framework was applied to measurement in learning organization contexts and ten models were reviewed. Conclusions cover …

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