... of a foresight project at a Finnish higher education institution that selected sales and services as its institutional focus areas. According to the institutional strategy, all students should have acquired solid sales and service skills before the completion of their studies. The foresight methods used...

... winners is being played by Australian universities engaged in the professionalization of ACE through their accredited programmes. These tertiary strategies are fusing the feminine aspects of ACE such as social connectedness and caring with the masculine characteristics of performativity, strategic policy...

... innovation begins with sensing and anticipating customer problems and needs”, and they conclude with the key implication that learning is “concrete by first‐hand involvement with customers”. Vandermerwe (1995, p. 80) exemplified this by contrasting the strategies between IBM and Intel. Intel had sensed...

... (1993, p. 81) decrees that a learning organisation creates, acquires and transfers knowledge in order to modify its behaviour in line with competitive strategies. Descriptive definitions acknowledge the fact that all organisations learn, consciously or otherwise (Kim, 1993; Levinthal and March, 1993...

... and quantitative. Assesses the findings which suggest that while, in general, the course is well received more could be done to strengthen its vocational orientation. Outlines how tutors have adjusted the learning and teaching strategy to make the unit more explicitly vocational and steps being taken to ensure...

... for innovative approaches to management education in China. This article presents some current models of management education and innovative strategies for facilitating training and development in Chinese enterprises. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Management development Masters of Business Administration...

... Strategy This book is based on John Denton′s PhD research. His key research question was the extent to which organisational learning is a source of competitive advantage and this also becomes the focus for this book. Tentative conclusions in the affirmative are made. However, the value of this book...

...Ray Wolfenden Describes the enterprise agenda of two large, civic universities– the University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Relates the strategy used and various achievements, including employer partnerships, a publicity campaign, student...

... Milner, Ian Webb and Nicola Whitehouse Graduates, Learning, Small Firms, Strategy Describes work currently being done by the Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) in action-based learning and its use in the development of graduates and regional industry. Examines a pilot scheme the Company Associate...

... Alliances Development Human resource development Management attitudes Partnering Quality management Strategy Urban environment USA VOLUME 35 NUMBER 6 1993 Creating Cities that Work MANAGING PARTNERSHIP Will Wesson DEVELOPING A JOINT VISION AND STRATEGY One of the major stress-creating features...

... culture Human resource management Strategy Training TRAINING AS A MISSION OBJECTIVE by Phil Churchill Training should start from the top and should be central to the achievement of corporate objectives. The author, a marketing consultant, discusses the experiences of a Midlandsbased company which...