Session B.5: Going Global – The People Dimension of Organizational Transformation
*Speaker:
-Dick Kleinert, Principal, Deloitte
-Kent Lockhart, Director, Executive Development, The Walt Disney Company
-Young-Soon Kim, CEO, Credu
*Description:
New business and work force challenges are making HR and people issues more visible and important than ever. People-related challenges not technology, processes or strategy are often the most significant barriers to effective organizational transformation. This session will discuss global trends in structural transformation, related people and organizational challenges and some practical, proactive solutions to enhance organizational performance. Specific topics will include: Current global marketplace pressures (e.g., globalization, talent trends, increasing consumer power, and changing regulatory pressures), Related organizational transformation strategies (e.g., outsourcing, M&A, shared services), Associated human capital challenges and Pragmatic approaches to solving select challenges.
Duration : 1:33:21
Across the globe, many learning organizations view themselves as overhead or manage themselves against a set of metrics that are about volume and activity levels. Ed Trolley, author of Running Learning like a Business, recognized that businesses were having trouble interacting with training organizations because the language, behaviors and measures of success were drastically different. His proposed solution is simple: run training like any other business.
Tracy Huston argues that training is comfortable but that it does not change behavior very much. If this is true, this leads to the question of why we do we continue to do it? A group of CEOs came together through the Society for Organizational Learning to discuss this as well as how to develop and sustain a learning organization culture.
Human Resources
The OD Network Conference 2008 is October 18 – 21, 2009 in Seattle, Washington. There’s a great line up this year of speakers. Keynote Speakers include Peter Block, Denise Caruso, Leng Lim, Carolyn Lukensmeyer and Juliette Powell.