DOW Chemical Company:
'In today's fast paced highly competitive business world, knowledgeable leaders at every level is our only true competitive advantage. We've found that hands-on action learning is the best way to align and motivate an organization to leverage that knowledge for competitive advantage.'
- Washington S Larry Washington, vice president EH&S,
Human Resources and Public Affairs, Dow Chemical Company
Philips:
"Philips Electronics has been highly committed to using action learning, with applications in Corporate-level issue assignments, Business Unit strategy assignments, development projects, and particularly in the major turnaround operation of the early nineties. We have benefited substantially from the great many business improvements and from the broad management development achieved".
- Frits Schuitema, Managing Director,
Royal Philips Electronics, Belgiu
Siemens:
'The speed at which a corporation can learn and employ new knowledge is a decisive factor in competition. It is not enough to learn and to work. Learning and working must be integrated. Only then can a corporation be a learning organization. Action Learning addresses this challenge very efficiently.'
- Professor Peter Pribilla, Head of Corporate Human Resources,
Member of the Corporate Executive Committee, Siemens AG
DaimlerChrysler:
"Action Oriented Learning combines new learning techniques with actual business assignments, involving teamwork to come up with state of art solutions for improving internal business processes. It closes the gap between theory and practice and transforms business operations¡ (Action Oriented Learning) has already brought in visible improvements and has demonstrated success in the global business transformation exercise at Daimler Benz."
Wolfgang Braun ¨C DaimlerChrysler
Real cases where companies have applied the principles of BDAL with demonstrable benefit:
General Electric--new business opportunities: |
