IBM - What Learning Should Bring to the Business

29 Aug 2007

To be seen as a strategic operation within the business, the learning function must truly understand the strategies of the business, be able to develop trusting interdependent relationships built out of respect and offer expertise from a mindset of what learning can bring to the business.

A specific example of this is by coaching those who have a traditional understanding of learning in an academic and classroom based setting to view learning as transformational in many forms.

Finally, learning is a business and must be run like a business. As is the case for all business units, learning needs to deliver more value. It must deliver it more efficiently, deliver more for the investment, and lead motivated teams of people.

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