Anthony Dibella, Edwin C Nevis

How Organizations Learn

An Integrated Strategy for Building Learning Capability

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Empower Your Business to Succeed by Learning ?How Organizations Learn gets to the practicalities and realities of organizational learning. This is not a fad; it's the outline of effectiveness for organzations of the future.??Parick Canavan, corporate vice president and director of global leadership & organization development, Motorola In this essential volume, authors DiBella and Nevis outline exactly what it means to be a learning organization. And they offer sound advice on how to increase the learning capabilties of your own company. Here you will discover a powerful array of tools and techniques for leveraging your organization's unique learning style, as well as a productive framework that will help your company learn more fully and adapt more quickly in today's volatile marketplace. A practical fusion of theory, original research, and real-world methodology, How Organizations Learn is the most comprehensive work to date concerning this all-important competitive advantage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780787911072
• ISBN-10: 0787911070
• Artikelnr.: 21430601

Autorenporträt

ANTHONY DIBELLA and EDWIN C. NEVIS are among the nation's leading organization development consultants. DiBella is a former visiting scholar at MIT, where he received his Ph.D. Nevis, a former professor at MIT's Sloan School and one of the founders of Cleveland's Gestalt Institute, is also coauthor of Intentional Revolutions (1996) and author of Organizational Consulting: A Gestalt Approach (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

A STRATEGIC LOOK AT ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING.

Developing Learning in Organizations: A Matter ofPerspective.

Foundations of an Integrated Strategy.

HOW ORGANIZATIONS LEARN.

Recognizing Your Organization's Learning Portfolio.

Developing a Learning Strategy.

Improving Organizational Learning Capability.

Enhancing Effectiveness at Each Phase of the Learning Cycle.

Assessing Learning Capability Over Time.

ADAPTING AND ASSESSING THE LEARNING STRATEGY.

Using an Integrated Strategy in Different Contexts.

Conclusion: What is the Good of All This Learning? Assessing theImpact of Learning on Performance.

Rezensionen

?This work is a rare find in business literature: simultaneouslyhighly readable, practical, and academic. For the involved managerwho wants to help increase the long-term viability of his/herorganization, this book will prove to be highly important andvaluable.? (Herbert Rau, strategic marketing manager, FairchildSemiconductor)

?The authors accomplish an amazing feat in providing an insightfulsynthesis of numerous theories of the learning organization,ranging from Argyris to Senge and then moving rapidly beyond themthrough case studies to identify a set of how-to tools for leadersand change managers. For those interested in transformation, a mostvalued addition.? (James J. Gannon, senior vice president, HumanResource Development, Royal Bank of Canada)

?How Organizations Learn gets to the practicalities and realitiesof organizational learning. This is not a fad, it's the outline ofeffectiveness for organizations of the future.? (Patrick Canavan,corporate vice president and director of global leadership andorganization development, Motorola)

?This book should appeal to anyone looking for a single resourceabout the practice of assessing the learning capabilities oforganizations. The authors provide an elegant and comprehensiveapproach that is based on theory yet grounded in actual learningorganizations.? (Mark Van Buren, senior research officer, AmericanSociety for Training & Development)

?DiBella and Nevis provide a highly insightful framework foranalyzing and transforming a company's learning style. Provocativeand pragmatic!? (John Seely Brown, chief research scientist, XeroxPalo Alto Research Center)

?To understand and drive changes is difficult for everyone, bothindividuals and organizations. DiBella and Nevis supply CEOs andmanagers with a set of very useful tools to analyze and increasethe learning capability of their organizations and to balanceday-to-day decisions with the implementation of long-termstrategies.? (Mauro Mastrogiacomo, manager of human resources andorganizational development, Fiat Auto)