Putting the Learning Organization to Work (3 Parts)

Synopsis: Shows companies how to become ‘learning organisations’ to better manage the risks of creating new products and entering new markets, teach real-time problem solving skills, and ensure that learning is shared and systematically acted upon throughout the organisation. Shows case studies from General Electric, the US Army and the Timken Company.
1: Dividing problems into component parts and using a rigorous simulation process to learn as much as possible before committing resources to unproven solutions.
2: Shows how one organisation connects learning with the practical and immediate needs of the workplace.
3: Shows an organisation under extreme pressure improving performance through implementing a simple yet powerful review process, rapidly transforming each unit’s best practices into organisation-wide procedures.
Series: Harvard Best Practice, Series
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video; 3 videocassettes. VHS. col. 60 min.
Year of production: 1997
Availability: Sale; 1997 sale: £375.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1997 sale: £995.00 (+VAT +p&p) set
Subjects: Business studies
Keywords: management skills; risk management

Title: Learning before doing
Synopsis: 1: Dividing problems into component parts and using a rigorous simulation process to learn as much as possible before committing resources to unproven solutions.
Title: Learning while doing
Synopsis: 2: Shows how one organisation connects learning with the practical and immediate needs of the workplace.
Title: Learning after doing
Synopsis: 3: Shows an organisation under extreme pressure improving performance through implementing a simple yet powerful review process, rapidly transforming each unit's best practices into organisation-wide procedures.

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