If you want to look at a framework for the purpose of change management and organizational development, you may want to study the 7-S framework. This is a model that describes how to organize to effectively organize and manage the various elements of an organization in an integrated manner. Consider this as just an introduction or maybe a reminder to get you on the road to further study and deliberation on the subject of change management
Category: Learning and Engagement (Page 3 of 3)
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:
I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard’s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed
Read the full, brilliant speech here
In the late 1990s, a team of researchers including staff from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) studied how learning takes place in organizations. Their conclusions which were very insightful then are even more relevant today. Another dimension that is interesting about these findings is equal relevance to any kind of learning, whether within a corporate organization, an NGO or public sector entity, or indeed with study and learning in an MBA program. In the global knowledge economy, success is all about knowledge. Can you afford therefore not to know these 8 principles of learning..
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