...Five Learning Disciplines... In 1990, Peter Senge published "The Fifth Discipline" (later followed by "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization" in 1994). His books pulled together his extensive research into what different organisations do to build learning capacity – and why some organisations use learning better than others. Senge codified these practices into what he called 'The 5 Learning Disciplines' as well as coming up with the concept-label of 'learning organisations'. The 5 Learning Disciplines – Shared Vision, Mental Models, Personal Mastery, Team Learning and Systems Thinking – are each made up of a set of tools and practices for building and sustaining learning leadership capability in organisations. Each Discipline consists of: | Principles, propositions or concepts (Senge calls these ‘guiding ideas’) | | Tools or techniques that, once learned and practised, assist in making the Disciplines come to life | | Practices or precepts to follow in your own leadership behaviour and approaches | According to Senge, leaders in learning organisations learn to thrive on change and constantly innovate by methodically cultivating these 5 Disciplines. They may never be fully mastered, but learning-centred leaders, teams and organisations practise them continuously. Our approach to workplace improvement and learning-centred leadership is based firmly in the values, concepts, principles and language of learning organisations...
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...Google Case Peter Senge’s five disciplines are: shared vision, mental models, personal mastery, team learning and systems thinking. As a Google employee, I would use these disciplines to understand the entry into the Chinese market. Google released a public letter stating, “…We aspire to make Google an institution that makes the world a better place” (Argenti, Page 19). Peter Senge’s first discipline, Shared Vision can be used to understand the changing environment at Google during the timeframe of the article. The majority of Google employees are doers, not decision makers, so they have to go along with any changes in the company’s direction or move to another company. The executives made the decision that it would be better to do business in China since the service would be better than anything currently available even if it was not as open as the US version. I’m not sure how many employees knew that “Do no evil” was followed by “Do nothing illegal” but the executives and corporate attorneys understood this and made the decision. At this point it is up to employees to determine for themselves if this supports their values and beliefs or if it’s time for them to look elsewhere for work. Team Learning and Systems Thinking can be used to assess the major events influencing the changes. Teams can be formed at and below the executive level to analyze internal and external events and predict what effects these will have on the corporate culture, business model and profits...
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...universally accessible and useful. 2010: Google launched the Nexus One mobile device 1998: Sergey and Larry were able to get rid of Spam results 1999: Google had index of 1 billion pages Reading Assignment Read the Google case and Sections 15.1 – 15.4 and 15.10 of the text and think about the questions presented at the end of the case. In addition, think about: 1. How does Google generate search results? 1999: Google depended on algorithmic search -PageRank algorithm favored pages that wee linked to other pages 2. How does Google generate revenue? 1999: Generated revenue by licensing software to other search engines Cost-per-impression: Google charged advertiser every time a user VIEWED an ad (didn’t have to click) 2003: AdSense – showed relevant sponsored links on a website. Paid Listings Revenue Depended on: Coverage rates Click through Rates Average CPC Revenue Splits 3. What is their key value discipline? 4. While some of the non-search products they offer for free create opportunities to show sponsored ads, others, such as Google Earth, do not. Some of these products are very expensive to develop. How do they generate value for Google? 5. Which markets represent Google’s best bets for growth? 6. What firms are the most significant threats to Google? Why? Case Write-up 1. What is Google’s key value discipline? 2. While some of...
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...Google's HR Dilemma Google started by 2 Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin Beginning in 1996, where they built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company you know today as Google. Since then, the company based on a simple approach to search has become a leader in IT and one of the big companies in the world having ranks in top 100 best places to work in and highly profitable IT web based and development companies. Google started with 20 employees in 1988 and since then, the company has grown to more than 20,000 employees worldwide, with a management team that represents some of the most experienced technology professionals in the industry 2000. Google attraction was not just its innovative technology in web browsing or it is lucrative return on employment that engineers and other people sow, it was a culture that the founders has created, embraced and emphasized as a unique way or working and producing efficiently, they have created a new working environment that is now a culture called the Google Culture. What is this culture that is praised by many and citizen by other? Culture refers to an organization's values, beliefs, and behaviours. In general, it is concerned with beliefs and values on the basis of which people interpret experiences and behave, individually and in groups. Usually in most cases, a company is a...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction The environment in which research is disseminated and used is undergoing a radical change and the task of modern HEIs is to better understand this change and support new ways of accessing content. It is now beyond doubt that the internet has revolutionised the way that research content is discovered, accessed and used. Content which once needed specialist skills to find is now widely available and searches which once took days of painstaking work can now be done in a matter of seconds. Increasingly, learners and new teachers’ needs are defined by their capacity to differentiate information: to recognise what is and what is not research content, to sort out the good from the bad, the useful from the merely relevant. The internet also appears to have had an impact on the way that research content is used in the real world. Many universities have invested heavily in learning spaces designed to facilitate the kind of social interaction that the internet promotes. Networks – online and offline – are increasingly a part of the way that the modern world evaluates information, including research content. Yet all this presumes that modern users will best know how to find their way in this new information environment, that they have the skills to find the right databases, enter the right search terms, to discover the most appropriate research content for their teaching and learning and use it in the most appropriate way. This study was commissioned by JISC...
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...Video 1: Types of Discriminations In this video have show 6 types of discriminations such as direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, association discrimination, harassment discrimination, victimization discrimination and perceptive discrimination. Based on the types of discrimination, director has do an example and show to the people to understand it. First of all is direct discrimination. Direct discrimination is usually clear and easy to spot. This situation will occurs when a company or organization make decisions not based on value or talents but on factors such as sex, race, religion or age. This is an obvious injustice, but companies often do not have much ability to refute their wrongdoing. In the video, we can see they have show 2 example to let people to know about direct discrimination. In the first example is an employee, he need to stay over working time to finish his work however the others employees who have a good relationship with boss, they do not need to stay over working time to finish their work. Next example is when a company have doing recruitment for recruit new employees, the top decision maker will do not give the judgment correctly because the top decision maker will have a mentalist that give priority to his friends, family or others people who have relationship with him. Second discrimination is indirect discrimination. Indirect discrimination is when a work requirement, condition or practice seems the same for all staff, but actually disadvantages...
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...never before, from web-search to connecting us. The cyber industry is conquered by different industries or individuals, under numerous domain names. Search engines, social medias, blogs, e-commerce sites and news sites are one of the networks we can find on the cyber industry. Google search engine and Facebook social-network are the global core leaders of the cyber industry. Facebook with more than 642.5 million users , and Google with more than 620million visitors daily. Like any other business as big as they are, they are facing external as well as internal issues, from managing their stakeholders to the geographical segmentation matters. The globalisatin business strategy sometime has a great impact to the coperate business, which sometimes the busnesses have no control over. Only the internal factors and issues are easy for a company to deal with. Case Study 1 Introduction: Google was found in 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students in coincidences of developing a singular integrated universal digital library; the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). Its first headquarters are in Mountain View California. Google has built up a strong brand name or domain and it is a leader in the cyber industry, particularly in terms of its excellent web service and its very rapid growth. Google’s popularity...
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...Main focus: BEML (BHARAT EARTH MOVERS LTD) Subsequent focus: Lupin, Wipro, Google Submitted by: sumaya shah (13) Company Profile: Type: Public sector undertaking Founded: Bangalore Karnataka (May 1964) Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India Key people: P. Dwarakanath Executive Chairman of the Board, MD, Director - Metro & Rail Business Products: Earthmoving equipment Underground mining equipment Railway equipment High power diesel engines Heavy duty hydraulic aggregates Revenue: 5000 crore(US$770 million) (2010) Manpower strength as on 31.03.2013 stood at 11,005 as against 11,644 of the previous year HR VISION & MISSION Vision HR will be a Dynamic, Pro-Active & Strategic Business Partner to enable BEML to maintain its leadership position in all its Business Domains. Mission To continuously innovate, evaluate and realign HR practices with the environment, business strategies / directions and employee expectations to maintain relevance and to attract, nurture and retain talent. To foster a spirit of creativity and innovation amongst the employees by facilitating creation of a rewarding, inspiring and motivational organisational climate. To act as a champion of change and managing the people implication of organisational changes. PRESENT HR STRATEGIES * Align all HR activities with the Organisation’s Business Strategies * Lead and manage organisational changes...
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...Larry Page: CEO of Google Larry Page is the co-founder and CEO of Google. He cofounded the company in 1998 with Sergey Brin while they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford University. He was the first CEO of the company until 2001. From 2001 until 2011 Page was the president of products. In 2011, he reclaimed his position as CEO. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University (www.google.com). Larry Page has an innovation leadership style. An innovate leader is one who develops both vision and strategy, sets up processes to materialize it, and creates an organizational culture that helps to facilitate the creation of ideas and implementation (Bel, 2010). Larry Page has done this as co-founder and continues to innovate as the CEO of Google. Page consistently pushes the envelope at Google, encouraging ideas that most would deem unthinkable. The role of an innovative leader is to inspire by generating ideas, vision, strategy and design, and building the organizational structure, culture, and processes that support them (Bel, 2010). Innovative leaders have the ability to recognize opportunities and develop them, something Page has succeeded at doing at Google. Page has the creativity to come up with ideas and the discipline to develop them. Page encourages risk taking and can handle risks well. Page empowers and facilitates Google employees’ work, which has led to a large number of...
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...Although marketing is believed to be as old as commerce we cannot declare that ancient Greeks for example, knew the connection between production, markets and competition. It is however sure that during the middle ages the first steps of creating the idea of marketing were made by the edition of „the first formal analysis of buyers motivation”(Egan 2008: pg 5) by Thomas Aquinas (1225-74). This essay is about the histories of marketing, the changes that have occured and the changes in the future concerning marketing discipline. Concerning the conception of what we call modern marketing we need to observe the end of 19th centuries North America where thanks to several factors including both the first and second Industrial Revolutions the basics of consumer market has changed from sellers to buyers. At the beginning of the 20th century a new concern helped the extension of marketing theories: literature. Bartel (1976) belives that „The emergence of marketing research was itself the result of growing pressure to produce and apply accurate knowledge to the field and to bring the methods of science to the field of marketing”(Egan, 2008: pg 7). During the period of conceptualization (Bartel, 1976), which durated from 1910 to 1920, the word ’marketing’ gained new meanings. It wasn’t necessarily referred to commerce anymore, then Ralph Starr Butler (1882-1971), a pioneer in marketing, taught that ’’marketing was all about coordination, planning and the management of complex relationships”(Butler...
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...It is important to understand how organisations operate and why they are structured in the ways in which they are. Organisations do not evolve by chance, or are they structured in a random manner. They are structured in a way in which organisations can obtain maximum power and control, which ultimately leads to their goals being achieved at a much more efficient rate. The purpose of this essay is to analysis the two theoretical perspectives of Modern and Post-modern which have different ways of understanding power, control and resistance in organisations. This will be achieved by comparing the two different perspectives and of distinctive contributions to the power, conflict and resistance which are key determinants of organisational life. It is stated that “Organizational structure... describes both the prescribed frameworks and realized configurations of interaction, and the degrees to which they are mutually constituted and constituting. (Stephen P. Robbins and Barnwell 2002) Power is an important concept in organisation theory. Organisations are built up of many factors from culture, structure, technology, and power. However power is inter-related to every factor in organisation theory (Daft, R.L. 2007). Two perspectives will be used to present the understanding of power and how power adds to culture and structure. Basic use of the word ‘POWER’ is used as a synonym of influence, strength, authority, and control over others. In organisation theory there are many different...
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...Introduction On a broader perspective, privacy can be defined as the state of being away of public attention. However, this meaning can be altered according to specific situation. The difference in the definition arises due to wide range of topics existing in connection with privacy. Some of these topics encompass physical, informational, organizational, spiritual, intellectual matters, etc. Due to the increasing awareness of the people with regards to this concept of privacy, importance was given in preserving as well as protecting the rights of the public. Some laws are enacted to address this concern, but the privacy laws differ in many countries in terms of the scopes and limitation caused by the variations in interpretations. The culture differences and norms among countries, which greatly influence the public’s perception, significantly affect the interpretation of privacy. It is evident, nowadays, that advancement in technology is faster than what was expected. It can also be observed that the technologies invented have contributed substantial improvements in the society as this made the lives of the people easier and better. However, it cannot be denied that it has a negative side that outweighs some of its benefits. In relation to the privacy issue mentioned above, these technological advancements create threats, specifically to the preservation of its users’ privacy. The rapid increase in the number of users can be associated with the increase of information flow...
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...Introduction With increasing dependency on computer systems and internet the handling of the IT infrastructure is becoming more complex and expensive. Cloud computing services has been gaining significant importance due to its characteristics of making IT infrastructure and resources more agile, has reduced dependency on device and location, enhance performance and productivity with several other benefits. The basic meaning of cloud computing is the storing and accessing of data and programs over internet rather than one’s computer’s hard drive. The cloud is defined as a collection of interconnected IT services and infrastructures, which are accessible through a network (Erl et al., 2013). Cloud computing enables multiple users to share resources, which are located dynamically and used as per the demand. The main aim of cloud computing is that it allows users to use all the technologies, without requiring to have deep knowledge or expertise about each one (Rhoton, 2010). The cloud services aims to reduce the cost of setting up and maintaining IT infrastructure instead it enables the user to concentrate on the core business. Cloud computing services provides the advantage of fewer operational issues, which is a great advantage for the small and medium size businesses since it allows they do not have to own the resources such as servers, software and infrastructure and can use the resources of the service provider. Cloud computing services allow the users to transfer data between...
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... engine evaluation going beyond traditional methods, and new perspectives on Web searching. Findings – The approaches to studying Web search engines are manifold. Given the importance of Web search engines for knowledge acquisition, research from different perspectives needs to be integrated into a more cohesive perspective. Research limitations/implications – The chapter suggests a basis for research in the field and also introduces further research directions. Originality/value of paper...
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...Roxanne Dingle ENT 435 June 7, 2015 Steve Wynne The Importance of Innovation Architecture Innovation Architecture is the systematic discipline that integrates, configures, transforms, and aligns diverse elements resulting in the creation, design, or building of new sources of organizational growth or wealth. An effective innovation architecture process is the foundation needed to build innovation-led growth. This type of leadership establishes the framework for delivering effective innovation management by product planning, innovation portfolio management, new product development and the lifecycle of ideas to market closure. Savvy leaders shape the culture of their company to drive innovation. No one ever feels like they have time to spare. “People get so consumed with putting out fires and chasing short-term targets that most can’t even think about the future”. Giving up control when the pressure is greatest is the ultimate innovation paradox. That’s why iconic brands like 3M and Google give their employees about 10% "free time" to experiment with new ideas. The three companies that will be discussed are Google, Walmart and Amazon. In researching I found that these companies have a great innovation structure and are constantly improving and updating their strategies. Google has nine principles of innovation and they are as follows; innovation comes from anywhere, focus on the user, aim to be ten times better, bet on technical insights, ship and iterate, give employees...
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