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Direct linkMinati, Gianfranco – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to make evident the inadequateness of concepts and language based on industrial knowledge still used in current practices by managers to cope with problems of the post-industrial societies characterised by non-linear process of emergence and acquisition of properties. The purpose is to allow management to…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Systems Approach, Industry, Knowledge Economy
Zanotti, Francesco – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this contribution is to describe a new methodology for designing strategic plans and how it was implemented by ATM, a public transportation agency based in Milan, Italy. Design/methodology/approach: This methodology is founded on a new system theory, called "quantum systemics". It is based on models and metaphors both…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Methods, Systems Approach, Business Administration
Bonometti, Patrizia – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this contribution is to describe a new complexity-science-based approach for improving safety, quality and efficiency and the way it was implemented by TenarisDalmine. Design/methodology/approach: This methodology is called "a safety-building community". It consists of a safety-behaviour social self-construction…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Occupational Safety and Health, Change, Business Administration
Wilson, John P.; Beard, Colin – Learning Organization, 2014
Purpose: Marks and Spencer's Plan A environmental strategy is an ambitious one which addresses economic, social and environmental considerations. As part of this process it recently used a sustainable learning store strategy to develop, capture and disseminate learning before, during and after construction so that learning could be transferred to…
Descriptors: Retailing, Sustainability, Workplace Learning, Futures (of Society)
Minati, Gianfranco – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe fundamental concepts and theoretical challenges with regard to systems, and to build on these in proposing new theoretical frameworks relevant to learning, for example in so-called learning organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper focuses on some crucial fundamental aspects introduced…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Corporations, Management Development, Definitions
Smith, Peter A. C. – Learning Organization, 2003
In 1996 Hubert Saint-Onge and Smith published an article ("The evolutionary organization: avoiding a Titanic fate", in The Learning Organization, Vol. 3 No. 4), based on their experience at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). It was established at CIBC that change could be successfully facilitated through blended application…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Organizational Change, Banking, Foreign Countries
van Eijnatten, Frans M.; van Galen, Maarten C.; Fitzgerald, Laurie A. – Learning Organization, 2003
A decision to don the chaos lens, adopt dialogue as its primary mode of communication, and to recognize the power of the organizational mind has fundamentally and irreversibly changed the way a Dutch capital-equipment manufacturer operates in its rapidly complexifying global marketplace. Beginning in September 1999, the focus of an ever widening…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Business Administration, Organizational Change, Organizational Communication
