Analyses ICL (formerly International Computers, Ltd), founded in 1968, which was taken over (90.1%) by Fujitsu, that operates in over 80 countries and employs 21,000 people — mostly in Europe. Believes that implementing knowledge management — as a key business process — can aid in...

States that personal development activities are not integrated with the development of organizational structures and processes. Contends that people running organizations need two key skills — learning continuously, and giving direction — most people at the top have not been trained in...

Emphasizes that managers should understand the connection between learning and self‐development in relation to their career progression. States learning, self‐improvement and career development are inter‐related and attitudes to learning are situation specific rather than permanently...

Analyses three appointments in different countries by three organizations — Skandia, Dow Chemical Co., and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's Leadership Centre. Looks at the way the appointee's (Leif Edvinsson, Gordon Petrash and Hubert Saint‐Onge) have applied their thinking.

Concentrates on the concept of tacit knowledge and believes that its role within organizations is underestimated and its effects, for both good and ill, seriously misunderstood. States that, in a business context, tacit knowledge exists at two levels: individual level and organizational level....

Opines that scholars may have done the business world a disservice by the way they discuss the concept of the learning organization. Suggests building a learning organization is a long‐term project, of which there are three steps: fostering an environment that is conducive to learning; opening...