Corporate Universities

Organizations constantly need to adapt themselves to stay aligned with an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment. Corporate Universities puts ‘smart learning’ in the forefront. Strategies to secure alignment between organization and environment need both speed of learning and learning in the right direction. Across the globe, corporate universities have emerged as vehicles of such strategy-driven learning.

This book bridges the gap between the strategic management and corporate learning disciplines, combining general strategy with the concept of corporate universities, which, to date, predominantly has been an HR topic.

In the book, readers will find new concepts to bring their strategic thinking capabilities to the next level. They will also find generic corporate university strategies to link corporate strategy to organizational learning. In-depth cases show how corporate universities are used to renew, transform and optimize strategy. The cases include important lessons learned by corporate university executives from global companies, governmental organizations and smaller companies across different industries.

Written for academics in strategy, HRD and organizational behaviour disciplines as well as practicing managers alike, thisis the first book that offers a consistent set of concepts, frameworks, and cases to integrate general strategy with organizational learning.