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Organizational learning is now high on the
corporate agenda. Leveraging Knowledge provides a
17 day program which teaches companies how to identify critical
know-how and how to capture, share and leverage it for competitive
advantage. It offers clear guidelines for setting up a learning
organization and includes examples of how major international
companies are projecting this vital asset.
Your business can become a learning organization
by:
- learning to develop better products
- learning to improve services and processes
- learning to spread new ideas and practices
- learning to leverage the vital asset;
knowledge
and by treating every activity as a learning
experience.
Leveraging Knowledge: The 17 Day Program
for a Learning Organization gives you everything you
need to turn your business into a smarter organization.
Patrick J. Thurbin is currently Director
of the Management and Business Development Research Unit
and Principal Business Consultant at the Business School,
Kingston University in the UK.
He combines a wide range of consulting
assignments in national and multinational organizations
with research and lecturing at the University. His particular
teaching areas include corporate strategy, creative management
and information systems design. He is a Visiting Professor
in Management at Grand Valley State University, Michigan,
where he teaches on the MBA programme.
His consulting and research on ways in
which business growth can be supported by learning and leveraging
organizational knowledge is extensive. Ranging over industries
as diverse as aerospace, retail distribution, software development
and the health care services.
Before becoming an academic he spent
some 20 years working in the UK, Europe and the United States,
gaining practical management experience in production, research
and systems development.
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