Managing the transition to the corporate university – a synthesis of client research

Abstract

This article is a synthesis of consulting experience in managing the reality of the corporate university transition. It provides an objective context for this development and outlines the nature of the intellectual vacuum that exists between a company’s strategic learning needs and the provision available in the institutional intellectual supply chain. The emergent role of the corporate university in filling the gap is identified and a project management approach that facilitates and administratively enhances a highly networked corporate university development process is described.