How Organizations Learn

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.

A STRATEGIC LOOK AT ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING. Developing Learning in Organizations: A Matter of Perspective. 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 the Impact of Learning on Performance.