Learning Development Update in Corporate Learning and Development

Here is a good question for us all:

How long is a piece of string?

You may then ask: What weight does it have to carry? Is it easy to use? Will the weather rot it? How long does it have to last? Will it be used again in other areas? What is its unit strength? What will happen if it fails to cope with the demands we place on it? Who is to blame?

These are typical of the issues and demands that we face in designing a corporate university. We do not know how long a corporate university will run. We do know that what we have designed in the past is quite different to what we envisage for the future. We are in a moving scenario. We are looking for tomorrow’s right answers today.

So who has the responsibility for answering these questions? Is it HR, operations, accountants, logistics. R+D specialist consultants, IT, marketing, sales? Or will the CEO keep or delegate the task?

For further reading on this subject please see:

the savvy learner

The Savvy Learner

From the Chronology of Corporate University Thinking

Richard Dealtry
Chairman, G-ACUA

You need a good corporate university champion with all the right skills, attributes and scope to get what is needed in a network of people who can work together. We all know that to be successful the corporate university needs the right people to undertake this work.

So what do you think about solving this scenario? I would be interested to hear from you.

how long is a piece of string

By richard.dealtry|2018-06-22T10:55:00+01:00May 17th, 2016|Blog|0 Comments

About the Author: richard.dealtry

Richard trained as a professional chartered status engineer CEng, with follow-on qualifications at MSc and MBA at Cranfield University, School of Management. Subsequently he participated in the development of qualification-based programmes for the Ministry of Defence. In the following period he specialised in private sector mergers & acquisitions at group corporate level with GKN and in the redevelopment management of four product divisions in the Tube Investments Group. Following the successful completion of phased development of an international leisure marine manufacturing and distribution company. Through a growing interest in government financial support for business growth and regeneration he was appointed Under Secretary Industry Adviser for Scotland. Later he became Regional Director for the seven Middle East Gulf States in the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting, an organization specialising in down-stream oil and gas business development projects. On his return to the UK he continued his interest in strategic organizational development for business as an independent top management consultant, developing further world-class experience in the design and delivery of innovative in-company learning organization management processes in both the private and public sectors. Richard's work is widely published and it is true to say that he has pioneered a number of major demand-led management and business value-enhancing process innovations including the international Corporate University Blueprint. Richard is a leading authority on the nature of the management dynamics that contribute to a successful outcome and is retained as visiting Professor by three university business schools to give advice on the design and delivery of high business value executive management programmes. Find out more about Richard Dealtry here: https://www.corporateuniversity.org.uk/richard-dealtry-biography/