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Members Only Mars, Inc. Case Study: Business Outcomes Impacted by a New University Brand

The paradox of Mars, Inc., is that it is one of the best known but also one of the least-known companies in the world. Everyone knows its signature brands from M&Ms and Milky Ways to Uncle Ben’s Rice and Whiskas cat food. Founded by Frank C. Mars in 1911, Mars, Inc., is ranked by Forbes Magazine as the third-largest private company in the United States. Being private, it does not have to disclose much of anything, unlike its publicly traded competitors such as The Hershey Company. So beyond a few things that family-owned Mars chooses to make known ... Read More »
26 Apr 2013

Members Only A Corporate University Changes Pacific Rubiales' Culture (Video)

Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE) is the biggest private oil company in Colombia and the one that has had the fastest growth among all country private business sectors.  The biggest challenge of the company soon became the need of keeping up with a demanding business growth strategy leveraged on the combination of three key elements: knowledge, talent, and opportunity.  Moving the company’s learning process from casual non-articulated training events to a learning strategy aligned with business objectives under a corporate curricula coordinated by a corporate university, was the main challenge they faced.  The resulting plan to convert the strategy into ... Watch Video »
21 Mar 2013

Members Only Innovative Collaboration at PayPal (Video)

What do an old blanket, a combination lock, and PayPal have in common? They are all symbols of security. Millions of times a day, people all around the world choose PayPal for its convenience, ease-of-use, and safety. But it goes beyond keeping personal data safe. It extends to being there when customers need them to speed them on their way – whether online or in a store.  Michael McCartney explains the challenge, solution and results from PayPal’s TechJam event that assessed technologies with peers from domains across the company to help provide their engineers innovative opportunities to play with new ... Watch Video »
11 Mar 2013

Members Only Designing Space for Networking and Collaboration (Video)

Networks of relationships among people contribute to the genesis, implementation and adoption of new ideas. This presentation briefly reviews key themes in then network theories of creativity. It highlights two key social mechanisms that underpin innovation: (1) prospecting for novel ideas; and (2) mobilizing the tangible and intangible resources necessary to develop them. Discovery -- the "aha" moment of insight -- and development -- the often arduous process of transforming an insight into a process or product -- are both enabled by strong social networks, but the types of network structures that facilitate radically creative discoveries are different from and oppositional to the structures ... Watch Video »
28 Feb 2013

Members Only Microsoft Strategies: Leveraging technology to build a more effective learning organization (Recording)

At Microsoft, they value organizational learning, which encompasses individual employee, manager, leader, business group, region, and discipline-specific needs as they relate to the company’s mission, values, and business priorities.  Microsoft reaches its 92,000 employees through four major workforce education organizations:  field readiness (sales and customer-facing employees), product development (Engineering group), professional development (leadership and management), and marketing.  Leadership of each organization functions as part of the corporate-wide learning Council.  The Sales, Marketing and Services Group Readiness delivers training to more than 40,000 field employees per year through traditional instructor-led training, online course and events.  Rising travel expenses ... Watch Video »
12 Feb 2013

Members Only Microsoft Strategies: Leveraging technology to build a more effective learning organization (Slides)

At Microsoft, they value organizational learning, which encompasses individual employee, manager, leader, business group, region, and discipline-specific needs as they relate to the company’s mission, values, and business priorities.  Microsoft reaches its 92,000 employees through four major workforce education organizations:  field readiness (sales and customer-facing employees), product development (Engineering group), professional development (leadership and management), and marketing.  Leadership of each organization functions as part of the corporate-wide learning Council.  The Sales, Marketing and Services Group Readiness delivers training to more than 40,000 field employees per year through traditional instructor-led training, online course and events.  Rising travel expenses ... Read More »
12 Feb 2013

Members Only CorpU Webinar: World-Class Strategies for Future Success (Recording)

World-Class Strategies for Future Success Presenters Maria Grigorova and Robert Moffett from Mars, Incorporated, as they reveal how they reinvented the Mars University brand to better align and serve the changing business context and future ambition.   Today, Mars Incorporated's 70,000 worldwide associates are guided by the same Five Principles set by the family who founded the business in 1911.   The acquisition of chewing gum maker Wrigley by Mars led to a move from a regional to a global segment organization, while maintaining the strong healthy culture that enabled Mars to become one of the largest family-owned companies in ... Watch Video »
16 Jan 2013

Members Only CorpU Webinar: World-Class Strategies for Future Success (Slides)

World-Class Strategies for Future Success Presenters Maria Grigorova and Robert Moffett from Mars, Incorporated, as they reveal how they reinvented the Mars University brand to better align and serve the changing business context and future ambition.   Today, Mars Incorporated's 70,000 worldwide associates are guided by the same Five Principles set by the family who founded the business in 1911.   The acquisition of chewing gum maker Wrigley by Mars led to a move from a regional to a global segment organization, while maintaining the strong healthy culture that enabled Mars to become one of the largest family-owned companies in ... Read More »
16 Jan 2013

Members Only Cricket Communications Case Study: Making Time for Learning

Cricket Communications: Making Time for Learning  Cricket Communications of San Diego, California, is the seventh-largest wireless communications provider in the United States. Founded in 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless, itself a spin-off from Qualcomm, Cricket’s goal was to make wireless phone service more affordable to more people. To that end, it offered economical, pre-paid service plans that did not require a contract and did not impose limits on how much a customer could talk. Today, Cricket Communications serves more than 5.9 million wireless customers in the 48 states and the District of Columbia; nearly ... Read More »
11 Dec 2012

Members Only CorpU Webinar: Innovative Methods for Strengthening Brand and Recruitment (Recording)

Presenter Esra Ramazanogullari, (Turkcell Academy University  - Industry Collaborations) discussed how Turkcell, the third largest mobile phone operator in Europe, transformed its branding and recruitment culture to achieve breakthrough results. With 68 million subscribers in 9 countries, Turkcell is the only NYSE-listed Turkish company operating in a highly competitive market. The presenters will reveal the company's innovative branding campaign that helped raise its college student level ranking of the "Best Company to Work For" from #13 to #1 for two consecutive years. Here's an opportunity to benefit from their award-winning approach. Participants learned how to: Integrate recruitment and retention ... Watch Video »
5 Dec 2012

Members Only CorpU Webinar: Innovative Methods for Strengthening Brand and Recruitment (Slides)

Presenter Esra Ramazanogullari, (Turkcell Academy University  - Industry Collaborations) discussed how Turkcell, the third largest mobile phone operator in Europe, transformed its branding and recruitment culture to achieve breakthrough results. With 68 million subscribers in 9 countries, Turkcell is the only NYSE-listed Turkish company operating in a highly competitive market. The presenters will reveal the company's innovative branding campaign that helped raise its college student level ranking of the "Best Company to Work For" from #13 to #1 for two consecutive years. Here's an opportunity to benefit from their award-winning approach. Participants learned how to: Integrate recruitment and retention ... Read More »
5 Dec 2012

Members Only Coming Soon to Your Workplace: MOOCs (SLEC Recording 11.28.12)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – Fast Facts Prestige universities such as Harvard MIT, Princeton, Penn & Stanford are “all in” There is over $100 million of fresh investment in MOOCs The New York Times has mentioned MOOCs in over 50 articles MOOCs – Key Questions We Need to Ask What are the implications for the workplace? How are large organizations thinking about MOOCs for talent development? How might MOOCs impact talent development?Quick Course and SLEC Meeting about MOOCs Quick Course and SLEC Meeting about MOOCs   MOOCs are concentrated in the higher education arena right now, but will MOOCs impact workforce development ... Watch Video »
28 Nov 2012
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