Executive Development Programs - Requirements and Success Factors

Executive Development Programs - Requirements and Success Factors
Author: Tobias Cramer
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3656272255

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, University of Economics, Prague, language: English, abstract: Executive Development Programs - Requirements and Success Factors The topic of this article is executive development programmes at business schools and other executive education institutes, which in principle are open to all executives and offer no academic qualifications (open, non-degree programmes). As it aims to analyse external training for senior executives, the target group of the paper is executives in senior positions.

Success Factors of Grow-your-own Leadership Development Programs in Middle Atlantic and Texas Community Colleges

Success Factors of Grow-your-own Leadership Development Programs in Middle Atlantic and Texas Community Colleges
Author: Robert Boswell
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Current leaders in community colleges are approaching retirement. Senior administrators and faculty members are projected to retire in vast numbers creating a leadership shortage in community colleges. To address the shortage, Grow Your Own (GYO) leadership development programs are supported by literature as a primary solution. The purpose of this research was to describe success factors for implementing GYO leadership development programs in community colleges. This study investigated the behaviors or actions necessary to implement a GYO leadership development program, pros and cons related to implementation, confidence to implement, and the change processes utilized to facilitate implementation. Interviewed were 10 program coordinators who represented 19 community colleges in Texas and states in the Middle Atlantic Region of the United States (Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia). The success factors that emerged were (a) support, (b) research, (c) development, and (d) appraisal. Support refers to obtaining assistance from within and outside the college. Research involves benchmarking other GYO programs and identifying instructional objectives. Development refers to developing the instructional strategy used to achieve objectives and selecting the instructional material to facilitate GYO learning. Appraisal refers to assessing the effectiveness of the program during application as well as assessing the program effectiveness post program application. The findings in this study offer preliminary evidence of success factors and strategies for implementing a GYO leadership development program in community colleges.

Critical Success Factors of Offshore Software Development Projects

Critical Success Factors of Offshore Software Development Projects
Author: Martin Wiener
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-12-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3835093339

Martin Wiener develops a model that comprises 29 critical success factors which are classified into four distinct groups: internal suitability, internal management, external suitability, and external management factors. He shows that the external management factors are particularly relevant for the successful implementation of an offshore software development project and that the perception of the individual critical success factors greatly depends on the company perspective.

Organizational Capability

Organizational Capability
Author: Dave Ulrich
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1991-01-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471618072

For any organization to compete successfully in today's market, it must focus on building not only from the outside but from the inside as well. Shows the correlation between successful people management and the bottom line. Explains how involving employees in the planning and implementation process and allowing them to see the fruits of their labor (the sense of connection between daily work and long-term customer success) benefits the organization. The aim here is to show how focusing on organizational capability will not only meet short-term financial requirements, but also build a solid foundation for the future.

Leading Change

Leading Change
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422186431

From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

Success Factor: Corporate Culture

Success Factor: Corporate Culture
Author: Sonja A. Sackmann
Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3867933677

Do corporate culture and leadership contribute to a firm's success? And if so, how? How can a company create and develop its corporate culture to compete successfully over the long term? Answers to these questions emerge in case studies of the business practices of six long-established and world-renowned companies: the BMW Group, Deutsche Lufthansa, Grundfos, Henkel, Hilti and Novo Nordisk. In a project initiated by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, researchers investigated these firms and analyzed the central characteristics of corporate success from a culture perspective. The case studies render a detailed picture of each firm's distinctive corporate culture and the factors that shape it. Based on these examples, Sonja A. Sackmann has identified concrete strategies and practices that illustrate how a company's management can make a significant contribution toward developing a dialogue-oriented corporate culture that supports a firm's viability. The appendix provides a checklist for readers who want to develop their firm's culture and practice culturally aware management.

The Future of Executive Development

The Future of Executive Development
Author: Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503629813

Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the objective functions of the executive development space, analyzes the demand characteristics of the learners and the organizations that pay for the programs, and the ways in which business schools and other providers deliver (or not) on the promises they make regarding skill development and the continued value of learning to the organization. They show how a trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation and decoupling) which have figured prominently in industries disrupted by digitalization,are reshaping the structure of demand for executive development. The authors look at the future of executive development in the era of self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) and wearable sensors and computers, and offer a compass for making the right choice for CEOs and CLOs who are guiding executive program design. Ultimately, they offer a guide for to optimize the learning production function for both skill acquisition and skill transfer – the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise.