Building a Global Learning Organization : Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Title: Building a Global Learning Organization : Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group
Author: Gitte Jakobsen, John Vellema, Patrick Graupp
ISBN: 148221363X / 9781482213638
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 237
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2014
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO® Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group’s worldwide Learning Organization.

The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization.

Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application.

The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization—whether large or small, national or international—can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction : The LEGO Group and Its Roots

Section I : Laying The Groundwork
Chapter 1 :
Setting the Course
Chapter 2 : Preparing for the Global Pilot Project
Chapter 3 : Setting the Foundations for Moving Forward

Section II : The Global Pilot Project
Chapter 4 :
Testing the Global LEGO Training Organization and TWI JI
Chapter 5 : The Workshops

Section III : Creating the Global Lego Training Organization
Chapter 6 :
Building the Organization
Chapter 7 : Learning Tools and Methodologies

Section IV : Rollout
Chapter 8 :
Sustaining the Effort and Growing the Future
Chapter 9 : In Their Own Words: Case Studies from the Implementation

Index