Posts Tagged ‘Excellence in Practice Award’
How applying indigenous culture to deliver entrepreneurship education contributes to economic reconciliation
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2019 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – Over 200,000 Indigenous people in 203 distinct First Nations live in British Columbia, Canada. Their ancestors lived there thousands of years before it became a province in 1871. While each Nation has its own unique history and traditions, they all experience ongoing personal, cultural, ecological,…
Read MoreForward-looking leadership development – Valmet and IMD
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2018 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – In 2014, Valmet – a new organisation born out of a de-merger in the seemingly unsexy, unwanted industry of capital equipment and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries – sought to make the most of its leadership development programmes. How? By turning the…
Read MoreMonocities: a long journey of transformation – Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Monocities Development Fund
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2018 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – How the SKOLKOVO business school and Monocities Development Fund went about solving a nationwide problem and bringing new life to territories long forgotten. The context and the problem. Economics textbooks will tell you that a planned economy was in place for most of the 20th…
Read MoreA globally-recognised model for leadership development – TELUS and Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
– SILVER WINNER OF THE 2018 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – How Canadian collaboration between industry and higher education became a globally recognised model for leadership development. Early days Flashback to 2013. TELUS, Canada’s fastest-growing telecommunications company, was facing a conundrum. Changes in the telecommunications industry and technology-driven advancements in education delivery were leading the company…
Read MoreTelstra Business Leadership Programme – Transforming Culture trough Connections
SILVER WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS Australia’s Telstra is in the midst of a massive transformation – put simply, it is “evolving from a telco to a techco,” according to Telstra executive Joe Pollard. Our vision is to make Telstra a world class technology company that empowers people to connect. It is a…
Read MoreEpiVacPlus: Improving the performance of Immunisation Programmes through On-the-job Training and Technical Support
– SILVER WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – World Health Organisation (WHO) sponsored programmes have succeeded in raising immunisation coverage in developing countries from 5% in the 1970s to more than 80% in the 1990s. But in Africa, immunisation coverage has lagged dramatically behind. Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), a NGO founded in…
Read MoreFrom Invention to Innovation: Atomic Intrapreneuship at Rosatom
– SILVER WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – Once a mere buzzword, innovation has quickly become an integral part of business success. In the high-tech world the race for innovation has stumped many senior executives. Despite substantial investments in R&D, established companies are challenged to develop innovative products and services able to generate new value and revitalise their business. “Technological supremacy…
Read MoreAddressing Live, Organisational Issues to Ensure Swarovski’s Future Success
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – A collaboration between Swarovski and Ashridge has created a new Leadership Academy focused on expanding leadership capability, developing organisational agility and triggering lasting culture change and has resulted in a set of organisational interventions that address live business issues. The work has delivered deep impact…
Read MoreExclusivity at Scale and Speed: a Microsoft-INSEAD Online Innovation
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – Microsoft’s “Mobile First, Cloud First” strategy, adopted in 2013, presented a major professional challenge to its global sales force. As one manager explained, “It’s not just about what we sell. It’s to whom we sell. And that means a radical change in how we sell.”…
Read MoreExploring Leadership – BG Group & Cranfield
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – BG Group is an international gas exploration and production company recently acquired by Royal Dutch Shell. It employs about 5,000 people and operates in over 20 countries with total earnings of $2.3billion. Prior to its acquisition, BG Group was a top-15 FTSE company. The requirement With its immediate links to global geopolitical risk…
Read MoreCultural Change on a National Scale – the NHS Leadership Academy & Alliance Manchester Business School
– GOLD WINNER OF THE 2016 EXCELLENCE IN PRACTICE AWARDS – Trying to change the culture of any large organisation is always a significant challenge. Trying to do so across a £116 billion enterprise that delivers services on a national scale is even more demanding. Attempting to do this across the 9,000 organisations that make up the English National Health Service (NHS)…
Read MoreEFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2016
The 2016 set of submissions was again of high quality and showed confirmation of a number of trends we have seen in the past few years: Impact-conscious It is, of course, inherent to the framework of EiP that impact is a concern throughout the cases, as this is a key differentiator for getting selected for…
Read MoreEFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2015
Impactful Partnerships in Learning & Development. The 2015 Excellence in Practice applications showcase the growing diversity in the Learning & Development landscape. Half of this year’s finalist partnerships, for example, have in-house or alternative providers as a prime solution-driver rather than business schools. About 40% concerned public services and quite a few cases focused on…
Read MoreEFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2014
Excellence in Practice 2014 has once again proved to be a vintage year. The Awards continue to demonstrate high quality partnerships which has led us to give wider visibility to a larger number of cases this year. Download the full Special Supplement Vol.08 Issue 03 ’14 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2014 Impactful Partnerships in…
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