Learning from the CEO

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CEO as Corporate Educator
In the eighties and nineties, CEOs focused their attention on understanding information technology investments, which ran the gamut from Y2K compliance to developing Internet capabilities and building e-businesses. Unquestionably, these investments required CEOs to get their arms around information-technology issues that often presented significant obstacles. Now, CEOs are routinely managing their information technology strategy as an investment that will build new capabilities rather than a cost to improve current opérations.
Enter the CEO agenda for the twenty-first Century. While information technology has been elevated to the ranks of a top priority for the Organization, understanding the organizations commitment and investment in éducation has now joined IT as a high priority for the Organization. In fact, a growing number of CEOs are becoming increasingly committed to developing new and innovative learning programs.
Learning from the CEO: How... Tovább

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CEO as Corporate Educator
In the eighties and nineties, CEOs focused their attention on understanding information technology investments, which ran the gamut from Y2K compliance to developing Internet capabilities and building e-businesses. Unquestionably, these investments required CEOs to get their arms around information-technology issues that often presented significant obstacles. Now, CEOs are routinely managing their information technology strategy as an investment that will build new capabilities rather than a cost to improve current opérations.
Enter the CEO agenda for the twenty-first Century. While information technology has been elevated to the ranks of a top priority for the Organization, understanding the organizations commitment and investment in éducation has now joined IT as a high priority for the Organization. In fact, a growing number of CEOs are becoming increasingly committed to developing new and innovative learning programs.
Learning from the CEO: How Chief Executives Shape Corporate Education, the first book of its kind, provides a detailed picture of how CEOs at seven companies across a spectrum of industries have fostered éducation and are using it for competitive advantage.
Each chapter is told from the perspective of a CEO from one of the seven companies, which include: Dell Computer Corporation, Bain & Company, Buckman Laboratories, Deutsche Bank, STMicroelectronics, Tennessee ValleyAutho-rity, and United Technologies Corporation.
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