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Virtual Corporate Universities

A Matrix of Knowledge and Learning for the New Digital Dawn

verfasst von: Walter R. J. Baets, Gert Van der Linden

Verlag: Springer US

Buchreihe : Integrated Series in Information Systems

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Over the past years, business schools have been experimenting with distance learning and online education. In many cases this new technology has not brought the anticipated results. Questions raised by online education can be linked to the fundamental problem of education and teaching, and more specifically to the models and philosophy of education and teaching.

Virtual Corporate Universities: A Matrix of Knowledge and Learning for the New Digital Dawn offers a source for new thoughts about those processes in view of the use of new technologies. Learning is considered as a key-strategic tool for new strategies, innovation, and significantly improving organizational effectiveness. The book blends the elements of knowledge management, as well as organizational and individual learning. The book is not just a treatment of technology, but a fusion of a novel dynamic learner (student)-driven learning concept, the management and creation of dynamic knowledge, and next-generation technologies to generic business, organizational and managerial processes, and the development of human capital. Obviously, the implications of online learning go far beyond the field of business as presented in this book.

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Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Economic Environment and Drivers of Change

Abstract

The workplace, the company, and the world are not even remotely what they were ten years ago. There has never been a time in history when changes have evolved so rapidly, discontinuously, and nonlinearly while affecting so many aspects of everyday and corporate life. Sure, changes are not novel to history, yet the quantitative and qualitative leaps (flux), and the increasing complexity has never been experienced in such a way. As a result, corporate life has become and is becoming more complex, complicated, and paradoxical.

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Chapter 2. The Corporate Environment

Abstract

This chapter discusses the impact of new economic realities, the technological revolution and other drivers of change on organizations, organizational processes, and how this impact is consequently translated into the role of managers, managerial processes, and management in general. Further more, we will look into the issue of management competencies. What are management competencies, how are they defined, and what are the important management competencies that can be identified in the context of changing corporate and business environments?

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Chapter 3. The Business Education Environment

Abstract

As we have established in the previous chapters, managerial roles have changed and are changing in nature. Logically, therefore, relevant managerial competencies must also change over time, and it is necessary to discuss changing managerial competencies. Not surprisingly, managerial competencies and/ or the lack thereof, are a main topic of criticism from the business as well as the business school communities.

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Chapter 4. Information and Knowledge Technologies for Virtual Education

Abstract

Throughout the previous chapters, we have given some insight in the processes of learning and knowledge transfer. Figure 2-7, re-introduced below as figure 4-1, shows a schematic and therefore somewhat reduced view on the processes of learning and knowledge management.

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Chapter 5. The Concept of the Hybrid Business School

Abstract

In this chapter, we will develop in more detail the concept of the Hybrid Business School. When we talk of the Hybrid Business School, we mainly relate to the single-loop learning cycle, depicted in the right hand side of the now well-knowwn figure below. At the same time, the Hybrid Business School also plays an important role as enabler for organizational double-loop learning.

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Chapter 6. Illustrations and Examples of Hybrid Business Schools

Abstract

Since we have explained the building blocks and the concept of the Hybrid Business School, it would be beneficial to discuss some concrete examples. We have chosen the term Hybrid, because the Hybrid Business School blends the corporation’s knowledge management approach with strategy, performance, individual development, business, management, and organizational processes, and it also merges a virtual (on-line) delivery with face-to-face workshops. The need for the latter not only stems from experiences with virtual delivery, but is also a direct consequence of the learning and the educational competency-based approach we have advocated in this book.

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Chapter 7. The Learning Mindset Scan: a Methodology for Developing Corporate Learning Ventures

Abstract

As we stressed earlier, the knowledge-creating and learning organization perspectives bring about a strong and complex process that has an important impact on every aspect of the organization and its members. Knowledge and learning touch all of the assumptions underlying the organization’s structures and processes, and changes the roles, responsibilities, competencies and activities of all involved.

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Backmatter

Titel: Virtual Corporate Universities
verfasst von: Walter R. J. Baets
Gert Van der Linden
Copyright-Jahr: 2003
Verlag: Springer US
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4615-0300-2
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-5011-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0300-2