Posts by EFMD
Recognising outstanding learning and development partnerships: Excellence in Practice 2021
The 2021 Excellence in Practice awards attracted an impressive set of submissions, despite the ongoing challenges due to the pandemic. More than 50 cases registered for the awards, an all-time high.
Read MoreLeading transformation: Shaping the automotive transformation amidst turbulent times
It was early 2020. The global automotive industry was in the middle of the biggest transformation in its history – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreHow TRATON uses training to accelerate its global champion strategy
The TRATON GROUP brings together four of the world’s leading truck brands – MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus and, most recently, Navistar. These four brands are now united in the mission to become the global champion of the transportation services industry and to transform transportation together.
Read MoreMaking leaders
In 2017, a global transformation plan at Capgemini (branded “LEAD” appropriately enough) combined with a need to manage talents differently, to pave the way for an ambitious leadership development programme.
Read MoreFuture-proofing the Audi UK dealership network
Electric mobility, driverless cars, automated factories, and ridesharing—these are just a few of the major disruptions that the automotive industry is facing. Maintaining a market position in the premium car market presents an ongoing challenge.
Read MoreEntrepreneurship for Good
Bound by strong humanist values, Live for Good, a not-for-profit association committed to youth and an expert in positive impact entrepreneurship, and CEDEP, the Executive Education Club share a common vision of business.
Read MoreCreating a transformative leadership culture
Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent, neutral organisation operating worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war.
Read MoreDriving customer retention and project success through professionalisation
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of €11 billion. It is the European number one in Cybersecurity, Cloud and High-Performance Computing, providing tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 71 countries.
Read MoreCargill catalyst: “Paying it forward” with INSEAD
How do you transform an agricultural and industrial giant with 155,000 employees in 70 countries? Simply take the top 1,700 leaders, give them a new mindset… and get them to pass it on.
Read MoreRisk school experience: Tailored training to master risk
A school to restore professionals’ confidence in granting credit risk, increase quality credit investment and reduce arrears. These are the objectives of the Risk School created by CaixaBank and the UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM).
Read MoreCorporate sustainability and reporting for competitive business programme in Peru
CENTRUM PUCP and Global Reporting Initiative are honoured to receive the 2021 EFMD Excellence in Practice SILVER Award in the “Social and Environmental Impact” category.
Read MoreHow to close a factory, responsibly?
The right way to close an operation by Kenneth W Freeman, an article published in the HBR 2009 issue1, is one of the few references regarding responsible factory closings. Freeman observes: “Many managers never had to shrink their operations of workforce drastically, and as a result (…) they assume they have to be the tough guys who make the decisions and that afterward they can delegate the implementation to others with one marching order: go fast.”
Read MorePertamina’s Catalyser
Winning the EFMD 2020 Gold Award for talent development was an honour for all the partners, especially as this is the first time an Indonesian company has won such an award.
Read MoreAuthentic African leadership requires ‘more than a programme’
The brief was as brave as it was wide: take 328 bankers of varying seniority from 20 African countries and help them unlock their untapped potential – as individuals not financiers – through a programme co-designed by two ostensibly rival business schools.
Read MoreUnlocking human potential through learning English
Those of us in the anglophone business world often take for granted the ability to easily express ourselves and instantly understand everything around us at work. As English has become the undisputed language of commerce and academia, professionals across much of the planet must contend with language and communication obstacles daily on top of maintaining every other facet of their effectiveness at work.
Read MoreDeveloping entrepreneurship in Russia
The “PRACTICUM Programme” was inaugurated in 2012’ the year Vitaly Polekhin, Head of the Investor’s Club of the newly founded Association of Entrepreneurship Development “SKOLKOVO Community”, came to the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO with the idea for a new educational programme for the founders and CEOs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Read MoreA journey from A to what can Be – The Future Factory Programme
Ireland is focused on keeping its connections with Europe and the rest of the world open for the flow of capital, business and, most importantly, people. Sometimes described as the “Singapore of Europe”, the country serves as a hub for many multinational organisations in the management of their European operations and is also home to many Irish companies who are “born global” with an extensive international footprint.
Read MoreEmerging Indigenous executive leaders programme
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people comprise 3% of Australia’s population and continue to experience high levels of disadvantage. Indigenous men die on average eight years younger than non-Indigenous men. Youth suicide rates are four times higher than in non-Indigenous communities, and employment and literacy rates continue to remain lower than those of non-Indigenous Australians.
Read MoreA digital learning platform for enhancing salesforce capabilities at Coromandel
Coromandel International Limited, an Indian corporation founded in the early 1960s, is among India’s pioneers and leading agricultural solutions provider, offering diverse products and services across the agricultural inputs value chain.
Read MoreEnter the Eurozone programme
The Eurozone is one of the world’s most dynamic, prosperous, and stable markets. Given that it is on the doorstep of the Republic of Ireland, the Eurozone is also a fountain of untapped opportunities for Irish companies – valued at €38bn. For Irish companies, the Eurozone boasts several important advantages, including shared currency, no customs, no tariffs, regulatory alignment, proximity, and ease of access.
Read MoreRising to the challenges of rapid growth
By any measure, Avolon’s story of meteoric growth is unusual. INSEAD strategy professor, Daniel Simonovich, describes the Irish aircraft leasing company’s trajectory as ‘astonishing’
Read MoreStrategic digital leadership in a rapidly changing world
The increasing challenge of digital disruption demands faster business innovation. This makes capabilities in strategic insight and effective project implementation more important than ever.
Read MoreMaintaining and Developing Company Brand Values through Generations Dialogue
The largest functional branch of JSC Russian Railways – the Railway Infrastructure Business Unit – faced a challenge of ensuring the continuity of valuable working experience transferred from mentors in the workplace to students enrolled on employer-sponsored places in the railway transport universities, the future employees of Russian Railways.
Read MoreDigital mindset: transforming the way Russia is governed
In order to make accurate predictions and simply to keep the public informed, authorities should have proper tools and interfaces to collect, analyse and represent large amounts of digital data from figures that the health agencies report to the data streams sent out by the proximity apps now being rolled out by the smartphone manufacturers.
Read MoreStrategic alignment at LafargeHolcim
How do you reinvigorate a multinational company facing several years of underperformance after a challenging merger? That was the dilemma facing Jan Jenisch in 2017. As incoming CEO of LafargeHolcim, he was tasked with positioning the organisation back on the path to growth.
Read MoreA transformative journey for the catalysts of change
We live in a world that is driven and defined by technology. As more and more organisations realise the critical role that technology plays in their business destiny, the onus falls on IT companies to lead the transformative journey and show the way.
Read MoreHow can museums reinvent themselves and become drivers of urban revitalisation?
The main question faced by a museum today is how to transform from an institution for the conservation of heritage into an inclusive space that combines a variety of resources with the ability to nurture resilient and entrepreneurial communities, exert positive social impact and provide unique knowledge and experience that protects and promotes regional identity.
Read More2019 – Hacer que los recursos humanos sean a prueba del futuro
Learning from experience – UK government and Lancaster University Management School
– SILVER WINNER OF THE 2018 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – The Lancaster Wave 2 Growth Hub Programme is accelerating the availability of responsive and accessible business support across England. In England, a programme of devolution to local areas has been enacted from 2010. The resulting “City Deals” empower local regions to support economic growth, job…
Read MoreSteps on the way to omni-learning
– By Peppe Auricchio – Corporate learning’s transformation is being announced across all channels, and with increasing vociferousness. Practitioners and experts alike warn that the way employees learn today is nothing like the learning of old – and hence, that disruption is upon us. This disruption, they say, concerns both the learning experience and the learning…
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