although organizational learning is often known as a goal, in the view of many stakeholders, the final aim of many organizations is optimization of financial results such as productivity, and  innovation is among various factors which optimizes the organizations financial performance, however, as firms seek financial performance improvement, higher profit and minimum cost, it is necessary to un...

Due to the steadily increasing demands of the market, strategic management of knowledge assets, or Learning Organizations, are becoming a must in industrial software development. This paper presents work done at Fraunhofer IESE, where learning organizations for software development organizations are being developed and transferred into industrial practice. It describes how learning organization...

Universities are by their nature learning based organizations. They deliver knowledge to students through teaching processes. Students acquire knowledge through learning processes, from their professors and from other different knowledge resources. Since learning is a fundamental process within any university, people may consider universities as being learning organizations. This is a major err...

Many organizations failed in adopting e-learning. A primary reason for this failure is the lack of assessment of organizational readiness for e-learning. To reduce failure risk, organizations should assess their readiness for adopting e-learning to identify some weak points which have to be improved by taking some improvement actions. In the literature we can find a variety of e-learning readin...

Organizational learning (OL) is a crucial component of operational excellence in nuclear power plants. OL relies on performance assessments, change management and continuous improvements. OL has become increasingly important for the nuclear industry with regards to adaptation to changes in the political and economic environment, work force, technology within plants, and organizations of the nuc...