A Recipe For Success: Building a Corporate University

One of the major initiatives for corporations is to create a Corporate University, which means, that if this is a priority for your organization, you’ll want to understand the nine steps needed for building a successful Corporate University.
According to Mark Allen in The Corporate University Handbook, a Corporate University is “an educational entity that is a strategic tool designed to assist its parent organization in achieving its mission by conducting activities that cultivate both individual and organizational learning, knowledge and wisdom.” Simply put, it’s about developing employees to improve employee and organizational performance to achieve organizational results. If we use this definition as the backbone for creating a Corporate University, we can easily define nine steps for success.