Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization

A very comprehensive look and synthesis of a topic that has little academic research. Dr. Rademakers expresses clearly and succinctly the role, types, and examples of corporate universities. Where traditionally there has been confusion, there is now a source to help with a conceptual foundation. Would highly recommend for anyone that is doing research on corporate universities and/or asked to start a corporate university. Would be beneficial for all current Chief Learning Officers as well.

The book is so abstract and theoretical. The cases was only discribed and little analysed deeply. Moreover, Useful idea and practice is so rarely. I can't recommend it to anyone.

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For a long-term (20 years +) leadership advisor, OD practitioner and HR leader, I found Corporate Universities extremely helpful in the way that it lays out the strategy selection/levers/steps/frameworks for determining how best to interweave corporate leadership and learning into the strategy of an organisation-- and build a global learning architecture around that. I used the principles in this book to build a global leadership academy for a 17,000+-person global insurance company, and we were able to create 5 levels of programs that were consistently built up from the emerging level leader to the first line leader to the mid-level leader to the senior leader to the C-suite leadership level. Martin's Book assisted me in establishing the business case for the few million it cost to design and execute this Global Leadership Academy around the world. His analyses and logic make it easy to collect the facts and frameworks you need to design a comprehensive corporate university globally. His cases that include Mars University, Deloitte, Canon, Shell and ING are most helpful and extremely practical about the lessons each of these companies learned in establishing their corporate universities -- and these examples make Martin's frameworks of choices you need to make in setting up a corporate university truly come to life. I recommend this book for all those of you who are looking at seriously revamping your approach to a career worth of learning for your people -- and how to determine the model that works best based on the strategy, culture, global footprint and purpose you have in your current business strategy.

This book is a comprehensive must read for anyone interested in strategy and corporate learning. It is very clearly written and combines a conceptual foundation with thorough research. The book not only provides theory and instruments but inspiring examples as well. Anyone interested in corporate learning and corporate universities will find this elucidating. Highly recommended!

If you want to accelerate your own motivation in understanding the landscape of contemporary corporate learning, this book is a must.With a structured approach the authors and co-authors illustrate not only the theory and instruments of the strategic role of organizational learning, but also submerge and entice the reader with cases.Finishing with analysis and discussion this book makes learning professionals ready to act!Michiel Veldhuisen

Great study. New insights. Nice new cases on the Corporate Learning function. Martyn Rademakers has added new knowlegde to this topic