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Could the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers have been avoided? What about the control failures in the recent global financial crisis? Behind these apparently very different events, it is possible to identify a common element of organizational myopia - a syndrome that severely limits the capacity of organizations to foresee the effects of their own decisions and to recognize signs of danger or opportunity. Organizational Myopia explores the barriers that impede organizations from identifying an effective response to the problems that they have to confront. Using real-world cases, the author investigates the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations at the individual, organizational, and interorganizational level in contexts that are complex, uncertain, ambiguous, and changeable. This book will help readers understand how to limit the origins of myopia and therefore increase the capacity of organizations to anticipate and contain unexpected events.

Organizational learning. --- Organizational behavior. --- Behavior in organizations --- Management --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Learning organizations --- Learning --- Communities of practice --- Knowledge management --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management --- Organizational learning --- Organizational behavior --- E-books --- Apprentissage organisationnel --- Comportement organisationnel

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The ability of a business to learn is becoming increasingly important for success. In Making Sense of Organisational Learning, Cyril Kirwan examines the wide range of factors necessary to create and sustain organisational learning and knowledge at all levels. The book shows how to best exploit the knowledge that already exists within the organisation while at the same time develop the capability of the people that work there, highlighting in particular the role of the HR function and of line managers. Each chapter provides theoretical background and real-world examples. Diagnostic questionnair

Organizational learning. --- Employees --- Training of. --- Employee development --- Employee training --- Employees, Training of --- In-service training --- Inservice training --- On-the-job training --- Training of employees --- Training within industry --- Vestibule schools --- Learning organizations --- Occupational training --- Employer-supported education --- Learning --- Communities of practice --- Knowledge management --- Organizational learning --- Training of --- E-books

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Corporate learning functions are now an established part of many of the world's leading multinational firms. In this book, Shlomo Ben-Hur demonstrates how corporate learning can and should have an integral, strategic, role in a company. Based on firsthand experience, Ben-Hur provides a practical guide to setting up or restructuring a corporate learning function within a company, covering its seven key activities. He identifies and elucidates the key decision points in this process. But The Business of Corporate Learning is much more than a 'how-to' guide. For the first time, this book sheds light on the reasons for success or failure in the strategic deployment of corporate learning. Real-world case studies are used to illustrate the potential pitfalls and demonstrate how - when successfully integrated into the company's strategic management system - corporate learning is able to deliver tangible business results.

Organizational learning. --- Corporations. --- Apprentissage organisationnel --- Sociétés --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Management. --- Mentoring & Coaching. --- Training. --- Business & economics --- Mentoring & coaching. --- Sociétés --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Learning organizations --- Learning --- Communities of practice --- Knowledge management --- Apprentissage organisationnel. --- Sociétés. --- Organizational learning --- Corporations --- E-books

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This book presents an in-depth perspective of knowledge as a fundamental process of any organization rather than just another resource to be managed. The author presents a process-oriented theory of creating and applying knowledge directed towards both researchers and practitioners. In this book the author develops normative knowledge management guidelines which draw from a unique view on knowledge, discussed in the field of philosophy since Plato but neglected by most knowledge management authors – by applying a philosophically grounded ‘social epistemology’ to organizations. The guidelines in this book call for an open and reflective space of knowledge creation, aligned with goals and structures of the organization. Numerous examples, field studies, and an application to the main case study on Seven-Eleven Japan complement both the descriptive view on knowledge as well as the normative guidelines presented in this book.

Business -- Philosophy. --- Knowledge management. --- Organizational learning. --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Commerce - General --- Business --- Philosophy. --- Management of knowledge assets --- Learning organizations --- Trade --- Business. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Information technology. --- Epistemology. --- Economic sociology. --- Business and Management. --- IT in Business. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Data processing. --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Learning --- Communities of practice --- Knowledge management --- Economics --- Industrial management --- Genetic epistemology. --- Organisation --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Business—Data processing. --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Social aspects

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“Co-creative meetings” foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects. This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view. It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of “co-creative meetings”, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.

Architects -- Biography. --- Architects and engineers -- Biography. --- Architectural design -- History. --- Communities of practice --- Organizational learning --- Creative ability in business --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Theory --- Management Styles & Communication --- Business meetings. --- Meetings. --- Conferences --- Business. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Leadership. --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- Business ethics. --- Business and Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Business Ethics. --- Congresses and conventions --- Discussion --- Meetings --- Business --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Wealth --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Industrial organization