Business-driven action learning: global best practices

"Business-driven action learning is changing the competitive landscape. It has helped companies like DuPont, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens and others to achieve breakthrough business results and develop their best people." "This volume is the first to show just how this has been accomplished through detailed descriptions of some global 'best practices' among multinationals. The authors themselves have been intimately involved in designing, facilitating and implementing business-driven action learning and so they speak from the vantage point of direct experience. For those wishing to embark on starting business-driven action learning in their organizations, or for those wishing to learn more about how to enhance business results through this approach, this book offers many examples of lessons learned and much practical advice."--BOOK JACKET.

The majority of articles included were originally presentations made at the first Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, held in June 1996, and at subsequent annual Forums.

DaimlerChrysler : global leadership development using action-oriented and distance-learning techniques / Wolfgang Braun -- Dow : sustaining change and accelerating growth through business focused learning / Pierre Guillon, Robert Kasprzyk and Jeannine Sorge -- DuPont : business driven action learning to shift company direction / Victoria M. LeGros and Paula S. Topolosky -- General Electric's executive action learning programmes / Stephen Mercer -- Heineken, Shell et al : twenty years of consortium action learning / Gordon L. Lackie -- Hoffman La Roche and Boehringer Mannheim : mission impossible? -- executive development during a takeover / Wolfgang Kissel -- IBM : using business driven action learning in a turnaround / Ron Hosta -- Johnson & Johnson : executive development and strategic business solutions through action learning / Ron Bossert -- Motorola : combining business projects with learning projects / Kenneth H. Hansen -- Philips and action learning : from training to transformation / Nigel J. Freedman -- Scancem : 'what did we earn and learn?' Emerging markets and business driven action learning / Miko Weidemanis and Yury Boshyk -- Siemens management learning : a highly i…