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Westinghouse Aligns Professional Development with Business Strategy (Video)

Heavy regulations in the nuclear industry challenged the way Westinghouse did business, so to compete in the rebirth of the industry; there was a need for a topflight workforce at all levels of the organization. Their solution involved implementing a new learning and development strategy, Westinghouse University, with several alliance partnerships. Their results included having a centralized learning program with outside partners with established tailored programs, convenience, and cost-reduction efficiencies. Watch Video »

11 Mar 2013

Mars Strategies on Aligning Leadership Development (Video)

A large part of navigating complex challenges is ensuring that Mars offers the tools and development experiences our leaders need most. Mars sought to create an “architecture of participation” where external best practices, internal best practices and skill development are linked in a meaningful way. To deliver on what leaders need most, Mars University increased its alignment with the business, became more customer focused, clearly articulated the benefits of its programs and became more accessible to associates and managers. Watch Video »

11 Mar 2013

EDF Leaders Execute Business Strategy (Video)

Électricité de France, or EDF, is headquartered in Paris and is the world’s largest producer of electricity, with 38 million electric and gas customers worldwide, of which nearly three-quarters are in France. It is known for being the biggest nuclear operator in the world. For nearly sixty years, EDF was a traditional, state-owned, fully integrated monopoly utility that produced and delivered all the power it sold to customers across most of France. One of the biggest changes to EDF’s operations in France in the 21st century was the advent of electric competition in 2007. Deregulation of electric generation ... Watch Video »

11 Mar 2013

Aligning Sales Strategies at MillerCoors (Video)

Through a joint venture in 2008 between SABMiller and Molson Coors, the Miller Brewing Company and Coors Brewing Company combined forces to compete more effectively in the US beer market. By aligning the Commercial L&D strategies with corporate goals, MillerCoors focused on a few fundamental capabilities particularly in the areas of building customer preference and elevating brands implemented through Sales Playbook and Sales Academy initiatives. Watch Video »

11 Mar 2013

Strengthening Brand and Recruitment at Turkcell (Video)

Guliz and Esra from Turkcell, the third largest mobile phone operator in Europe, shares how they 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. Watch Video »

11 Mar 2013

Why Practice Matters for Innovation to Flourish (Video)

Joe Steier presents a practical case study on how innovation was applied to the workplace at Signature HealthCARE and the goals that the company established to impact its future business results. Watch Video »

7 Mar 2013

Westinghouse Case Study: Making the Best Use of External Providers

Westinghouse Electric Company, now majority-owned by Toshiba Group, combines the legacy nuclear reactor businesses of the original Westinghouse Electric and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) companies, as well as related companies including Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd., a nuclear fuel producer in Japan, and Astare, a French nuclear engineering firm. Headquartered in Cranberry Twp. near Pittsburgh, Westinghouse is a pioneer nuclear reactor builder originating in the 1950s, including the reactor for the first U.S. nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus. With 14,000 employees, Westinghouse intends to be a serious competitor in the so-called Nuclear Renaissance that began, slowly but surely, in ... Read More »

7 Feb 2013

EDF Case Study: Strategy Integration

Électricité de France, or EDF, is headquartered in Paris and is the world’s largest producer of electricity, with 38 million electric and gas customers worldwide, of which nearly three-quarters are in France. It is known for being the biggest nuclear operator in the world. For nearly sixty years, EDF was a traditional, state-owned, fully integrated monopoly utility that produced and delivered all the power it sold to customers across most of France. EDF today is a much different company than it was in the 20th century. In 2004, EDF was taken public by the French government, although it retained ... Read More »

4 Feb 2013

CorpU Webinar: How to Get Leaders to Execute Business Strategy (Slide Deck)

In recent years, as deregulation transformation profoundly changed the electricity and gas landscape across Europe, the EDF Group grew through various acquisitions both in Europe and the rest of the world. As a result of these critical changes, aligning senior leaders with a new business model, and more importantly immediately executing the strategies became their number one priority. Leveraging their Corporate University for Management, they built partnerships with business schools and universities to combine and simplify highly technical core curriculum with urgent business needs around: Leadership and people management Change management Strategic thinking and business acumen During this webinar, participants ... Read More »

8 Nov 2012

CorpU Webinar: How to Get Leaders to Execute Business Strategy (Recording)

In recent years, as deregulation transformation profoundly changed the electricity and gas landscape across Europe, the EDF Group grew through various acquisitions both in Europe and the rest of the world. As a result of these critical changes, aligning senior leaders with a new business model, and more importantly immediately executing the strategies became their number one priority. Leveraging their Corporate University for Management, they built partnerships with business schools and universities to combine and simplify highly technical core curriculum with urgent business needs around: Leadership and people management Change management Strategic thinking and business acumen During this webinar, participants ... Watch Video »

8 Nov 2012

Learning and Development (L&D) Pops the Top for MillerCoors Winning in Beer Sales Strategy (Slide Deck)

Through a joint venture in 2008 between SABMiller and Molson Coors, the Miller Brewing Company and Coors Brewing Company combined forces to compete more effectively in the US beer market. Part of this journey included 32 General Managers developing a “GM Model creating essentially 32 different ways of doing just about everything.” By aligning the Commercial L&D strategies with corporate goals, MillerCoors focused on a few fundamental capabilities particularly in the areas of building customer preference and elevating brands implemented through Sales Playbook and Sales Academy initiatives. At this webinar, participants learned details about the process, strategies and models ... Read More »

6 Sep 2012

Yapi Kredi Bank: Using Online Gaming in the Corporate University

The Problem: Influx of Generation “Y” Employees The merger in 2008 with Koçbank and the opening of 170 new branches across Turkey in 2009 brought an influx of new employees to Yapi Kredi Bank of Istanbul, Turkey. There was a need to quickly educate them about the bank’s products and services. Many were recent university graduates who tended to be comfortable with computers and online life, including online gaming. So why not find a way to match their love of games and simulations with the training courses they needed? The question became how to do it. The Solution ... Read More »

14 Aug 2012