At 6:39 PM +0100 8/19/98, Paul Foley wrote:
>...it would be nice to put together a list of hard
>examples on which we could all draw to preach to the unconverted.
...and others have asked for case examples.
Some of the best documentation on actual Org Learning cases is in the
Learning Histories published through the Society for Organizational
Learning (SoL). These result from a structured process for examining an
initiative. The process itself if described in Art Kleiner and George
Roth's nice article in a recent Harvard Business Review or see the Learning
History Research Project home page at http://ccs.mit.edu/lh
Each Learning History is sponsored by the subject company. In several very
interesting cases, the resulting documents are available to the public.
You can contact the SoL office and purchase printed copies of the public
learning histories (SoL is http://learning.mit.edu or (617) 492-6260 or fax
(617) 354-2093).
By the way, I am an elected Trustee of SoL.
Some of this material is available on the web.
A condensed version of a Learning History of a major new automobile
development project is available on the web. This is labeled as the "AutoCo
Epsilon" project, but please understand that it's a real case-study:
Linkname: The Learning Initiative at AutoCo
URL: http://learning.mit.edu/pra/pro/aut/epsilon.html
Several important articles about the work at Shell Oil Company are at:
Linkname: Learning at Shell Oil
URL: http://learning.mit.edu/pra/pro/shell/index.html
More case material will become available over time. Finally, the SoL public
web site has a number of other articles.
Linkname: The Society for Organizational Learning
URL: http://learning.mit.edu/
-- Rick
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