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Prime Focus moves from fear of change to welcoming reform: Change‐management team plays a crucial role in the process
Prime Focus Regeneration Group, a social‐investment agency providing services throughout the English Midlands, has been transformed from a change‐weary organization that feared…
Employee empowerment leads to explosive growth at NYF Corp: US firm rewards entrepreneurial spirit
A ward‐winning US company NYF has doubled its sales over the past three years and enjoyed massive growth thanks to a new program based on teaming and gainsharing. The…
Bexley Council takes senior managers out of the comfort zone: Appraisal program widens the sources of feedback
Bexley Council, one of the top three London boroughs in the UK government’s most recent local‐government performance‐indicator results, has introduced a new 360‐degree appraisal…
Caterpillar capitalizes on virtual communities: Knowledge sharing provides competitive edge
Knowledge management (KM) has long been a central concern for multinational manufacturing company Caterpillar Inc, whose competitive advantage depends on the experience of its…
Colgate‐Palmolive database captures cultural awareness: Expatriate knowledge put to good use
Colgate‐Palmolive Co. has extended a system, originally used only for global succession‐planning, into a valuable expatriate knowledge database. The database contains information…
Talking at Tele Link as workforce is cut: Survey examines employees’ fears
When struggling companies decide to offload a significant number of the workforce, the bad times are not necessarily over for the people left behind. Negative emotions can include…
Rolls‐Royce a driving force in project management: Mind the gap
It is common to read in the UK press of a “skills shortage” – a lack of suitably qualified people in certain areas of industry, notably engineering, but also in some trades such…
Transforming Boeing: the knowledge to take flight: Enterprise project management in action
How often have individuals vowed to change their ways, stop, reflect and start over? Large corporations too often face the starker situation of evolve or die – few can do so…
Learning and development boost graduate retention at AIB: Program proves cost‐effective at height of Celtic Tiger economic boom
A learning and development program proved a cost‐effective way to attract, develop and retain graduates within AIB, Ireland’s largest financial‐services organization. Graduate…
Mentoring develops leaders of the future at Halifax plc: Senior managers give something back to the organization
A group of talented young people at the former Halifax plc have been helped to make the challenging transition from trainee to manager thanks to the introduction of mentoring…
Learning‐management system helps Nissan to keep track of training: … and maintain the competitive edge of its European dealer network
A new learning‐management system provides central tracking for 2,500 Nissan Europe dealers who will train more than 20,000 people in eight European countries in courses dealing…
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