The purpose of this paper is to provide a viewpoint on the importance of building learning capability through enhancing the learning talent chain.
This paper identifies approaches to building learning capacity in an organization through contributing to the learning talent chain. It offers a perspective on how organizations and education providers could collaborate to provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge through work experience, benefiting both the student and organization.
The initial feedback from organizations support the framework as a mechanism to connect industry, the student body and the education provider.
Understanding how industry and education providers can better collaborate will enhance organizations ability to develop talent in tough economic times. This viewpoint challenges learning talent chain members to contribute jointly to providing an environment to thrive on change
The value of this paper is to provide the reader an approach to building learning capacity through work related learning opportunities with students.
