General Director of Best Buy, a highly successful retail company, has hired a consulting firm Strategos fill us with enhanced innovative capacity. A six-month pilot training program gives new business ideas, as well as trains Best Buy employees as innovation coaches. However, this type of training is expensive and time consuming. Basic parts of the experience of learning tour Buy the best employees, and raises the question of where such development programs are appropriate. Focuses on learning and stimulate discussion about how people and organizations learn in general, and about how the innovative potential could be enhanced. "Hide
by Dorothy Leonard, Brian J. Delacey Source: Harvard Business School 20 pages. Publication Date: Sep 04, 2003. Prod. #: 604043-PDF-ENG