John Hagel Video - China's Learning Capability

http://www.ideasproject.com/ John Hagel III has nearly 30 years experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur, and has helped companies improve their performance by effectively applying information technology to reshape business strategies. Deloitte Center for the Edge, the organization he co-founded with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, conducts original research and develops substantive points of view for new corporate growth. From 1984 to 2000, he was a principal at McKinsey & Co., where he was a leader of the Strategy Practice. John has also served as senior vice president of strategic planning at Atari, Inc., and earlier in his career, worked at Boston Consulting Group. He is the author of the best-selling business books Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, and The Only Sustainable Edge, as well as the recently-published The Power of Pull. He has won two awards for best articles from Harvard Business Review and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and professional service firms.

There are relatively few organizations, in fact many of the organizations that we've looked at - we've spent 6 months actually in China because our view is that some of the greatest innovation in terms of these institutional arrangements for learning and talent development is actually in China, in companies in industries as diverse as apparel, motorcycles, consumer electronics. So we spent a lot of time looking at those kinds of companies to understand what are the management practices that lead to scalable peer learning and that is, I think, a key requirement for all executives.

I'd say one example more local in the United States, in Silicon Valley, is actually a German company, SAP, which has moved in a very interesting direction around their software developer network. Over a million participants in that software developer network, it started, early on, as very much the traditional open innovation model of pose a problem, get an answer, help the software developers to be more productive. It has evolved, over time, into creating an environment where you see these teams coming together and engaging on a sustained basis around very interesting performance challenges that they're wrestling with. So, that would be an early example of the kind of environment that we see forming around many companies.

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