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Learning organization
This document discusses learning organizations (LOs). It defines LOs as organizations that can learn and adapt to create new futures. Key characteristics of LOs include system thinking, team learning, shared vision, mental models, and personal mastery. LOs acquire and share knowledge to modify their behaviors. While converting all organizations to LOs seems ideal, failure rates for large change initiatives are high due to issues like top management intervention, politics, and resistance to change. Some examples are given of companies that have adopted practices similar to LOs and have seen great success, including improved market share and valuation. These new generation companies differ from traditional organizations in their structures and cultures.
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- 2. Scope • What is a Learning Organization (LO)? • Why bother with LOs? • “Old order changes yielding place to new” • Examples of Learning Organizations • What do they look like? – Organizational Structure • What do they feel like? – Organizational culture • Why are they needed?
- 3. What is aLearning Organization? • The concept of Learning Organizations (LOs) has existed for decades. • Drucker (1959) called such organizations knowledge based organizations.
- 4. What is aLearning Organization? Senge (1990) of MIT, defined the learning organization as a system that exhibits the capability to learn and adapt to create alternate futures.
- 5. Characteristics of LOs •There are five characteristics of LOs identified by Senge (1990): – System Thinking, which is the ability to think through problems, while considering the enterprise-wide impact. – Team Learning, – Shared Vision, – Mental Models, – Personal Mastery,
- 6. What is aLearning Organization? Garvin, of the Harvard Business School : "an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights” (1993, p 3). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUP4WcfNyAA
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- 10. Findings: some indicatorsfor our future 1000 900 873 800 Total Revenue of top 20 700 600 1972 500 400 1992 339 300 2012 200 161 100 0 Revenue ($ BN)
- 11. Findings: some indicatorsfor our future 16 14 14 No. of new entrants into the Top 20 12 10 8 1972 8 1992 6 2012 4 2 0 New entrant/ drop out
- 12. “Old order must change,yielding place to new”
- 13. “Old order must change,yielding place to new”
- 14. “Old order must change,yielding place to new”
- 15. New = ??? Hasthe time for Learning Organizations arrived?
- 16. Is it timefor the LOs? Traditional Hierarchical Traditional Matrix Modern
- 21. Why is thishappening? How things change (4:22) How American workforce is changing (3:40) World in 2020 (5:20) Future of our world (5:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1sPWiywJ5U&feature=related
- 22. So why notconvert all Traditional Organizations to LOs?
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- 25. Common reasons forfailure • Top management intervention • Existing power structures • Internal politics • Covert resistance to change • Existing “comfort” levels • Too much time needed • No immediate gains to be seen (Sheaff & Pilgrim, 2006)
- 26. Failure rates inChange management initiatives of large organization is close to 70% (Senge, 1999)
- 27. An exception, didthey borrow from LOs ?
- 28. An exception, didthey borrow from LOs ?
- 29. Question : ifall of that is true, why will investors wait ?
- 30. Question : wherewill you put your money?
- 32. The story sofar….. • Business world is extremely volatile • Large companies are losing money and investors • A different genre of companies are emerging and beginning to lead • These types of companies have not been classified as yet • Their business practices maybe close to those of Learning Organization
- 33. What do thesecompanies look like?
- 34. What is theimpact of these companies? COMPANY LISTING MARKET CAP INDUSTRY Intel 1986 (26 years) 134 Billion IT GE 1962 (50 years) 222 Billion Manufacturing/ Services/Finance Google 2004 (8 years) 210 Billion Internet/ Information Amazon 1998 (14 years) 106 Billion Internet/ Retail Face book 2012 (< 1 year) 45 Billion Internet/ Socialization
- 35. Fundamental differences between these companies? COMPANY Intel Traditional GE Organization Google Structure Organization Amazon Culture New generation Face book
- 36. Fundamental differences between these companies? Organization COMPANY Structure Intel GE Google Amazon Face book
- 37. Fundamental differences between these companies? Organization COMPANY Culture Intel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMZaKTUfWo GE Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F- zUPTxMEw&feature=related Amazon Face book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdh 1BaZgXSI&feature=related
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