February 2005 Harvard Business School features Sapient as example of excellence in Leadership and Organizational Behavior “We need to be focused on our clients like no one else. And our desire for their success has to be unparalleled‚ it has to be.” Jerry Greenberg Co-Chairman and Co-CEO Sapient Harvard Business School (HBS) professors Joel Podolny and Rakesh Khurana recently chose Sapient to feature in a case study on leadership. Sapient is now one of a select group of companies featured
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ABSTRACT This paper focuses on promoting organizational learning in business organizations. With the increasing global competition promoting organizational learning in organizations has become major priority for many companies which want to increase their efficiency and innovativeness. Companies which effectively promote organizational learning enjoy many benefits. They maintain levels of innovation and remaining competitive‚ better respond to external pressures‚ acquire the knowledge to better
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<i>"But when a whole family‚ or some individual‚ happens to be so preeminent in excellence as to surpass all others‚ then it is just that they should be the royal family and supreme over all‚ or that this one citizen should be king."</i>(1288a15-20)<br><br>The key to Aristotle’s quote is hidden in his definition of excellence. In Aristotle’s context excellence refers to the excellence of a citizen "relative to the constitution of which he is a member." (III: 4‚ 30-32) A state is defined by its constitution
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Why – need of innovation CHANGE. . .The only thing in this world that is CONSTANT! The aim of starting the paper with this quote is to make understand the importance of innovation. Innovation brings change. Innovation means “to do something new or in a different way”. Service excellence means “to exceed the expectations of customer‚ to give him/her better quality of service”. In service industry‚ where organizations directly interact with customers‚ innovation becomes very important. If organizations
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the risks in the business instead of being the creditors. Here the bank and the borrower share the risks and rewards of financing business ventures. Looking at Emirates Islamic Bank into being a Learning Organization I will be using a truth unambiguous of terminology during this analysis to be presented that serves an originator in exploring the meaning of Learning organization and organizational learning. A framework of organizational learning and features of a learning organization within
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lifestyle and with intensification of competitors; there exist a constant drive to excel in business. Various authors and individuals have defined quality as per the business aims and objectives‚ however a definite explanation of quality is quite impossible as the word quality itself is an ever changing phenomenon. This report attempts to define quality to its closest meaning‚ by comparing and contrast two definitions from different authors. It defines and differentiates service quality and product quality
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Organizational Learning in Lenovo Table of Content Introduction of Lenevo Type of organisation learning Culture towards learning Culture of learning in the workplace Organisational values and attitudes towards learning External and internal forces impacting the culture Policy impacting the learning culture Brief evaluation of the effectiveness of this learning Reference Introduction of Lenevo Lenovo is the world’s leading personal computer company. Lenovo Group
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Smith 5/1/2013 Organizational Learning Learning organizations can be understood as institutions which allow for expansion of capacity among its employees or people. In such organizations‚ people have the opportunity to develop and give the desired results. Learning also allows for the nurturance of new ideas and thought patterns. According to Senge‚ learning organizations involve collective aspirations that are not restricted and enables individuals to be in a continuous learning process (170)
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how quality is important for your company‚ you can see the results of it‚ or lack of it‚ every time you have a satisfied customer‚ or when competition increases market share. Unfortunately‚ although the concept is in vogue these days as any type of business or service carried out some kind of quality is difficult to define. Quality is a factor that consumers refer to forward in describing favorable or unfavorable‚ good‚ service or experience. There is rarely a definition may give consumers because
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Learning is the way we create new knowledge and improve ourselves. Brown and Duguid describe organizational learning is the bridge between working and innovating. Organizational Learning is a process to enable organizations to better use the knowledge of their members to make business decisions. In a conventional organization‚ decisions are often based on management perspective without taking into account the other members of the organization. A business using Organizational Learning recognizes the
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