N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform. This information is delivered as a by-product of the work performed by employees.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 175

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. Immelt asked why production should be put in old factories in a union environment. We can have engineering work more closely with production. If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. They are shifts that need to be made at all levels of leadership.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations. What can be done to close that gap?

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 10, 2020

With the world on lockdown, organizations everywhere have had to rethink how they operate. But in the midst of the crisis, some have discovered something unexpected: productivity has gone up, not down. The result is an organization that’s not only fairer, but also more effective. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Organization Crisis Diversity Long-term 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9