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Orbital RPM is a consulting firm that positions organizations to operate and compete in a knowledge-based economy.
Evolving from an industrial to a knowledge society requires strategies that have undergone the same transformation. Success hinges on your ability to innovate, collaborate, and leverage the collective intelligence in a socially networked world. Orbital RPM is the revolution needed by the knowledge workers of today.
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Learning for the workforce of today and tomorrow requires easy access to necessary information. Whether that information comes from a co-worker, an e-learning module or one of your customers is irrelevant.
Orbital RPM's Organizational Learning solution gets the right information into ...
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True development results in lasting changes in mindset and behavior that allow a person to perform more effectively. Too often traditional leadership development programs rely on an approach that does not produce change while delivering content that does not align ...
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New-hires walk in with a fresh view of your organization and an intrinsic motivation to contribute to it immediately. Replace paperwork and videos with an approach to on-boarding that gets people productive in, and excited about, their new role.
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The design of a space affects the behaviors and attitudes of those in it. Traditional workspace was designed to support the hierarchical approach to the industrial economy; the advance of the knowledge economy assures organizations will need information flowing quickly through ...
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Customers today are quickly becoming accustomed to connecting with their favorite brands, suppliers, vendors and anyone else they interact with commercially as opposed to being just the receiver of messages as they were only a few years ago.
The diversification of ...
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Innovation requires a steady stream of ideas within a governed structure that filters, vets, advances and integrates those ideas based on the strategies and goals of the organization. In practice most innovations succeed in spite of the odds due to ...
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Business Challenge: The Regional Field Sales Teams at General Motors are responsible for selling and delivering wholesale automobiles to GM's network of franchise dealerships across North America. Regions are further divided ...
Business Challenge: Traveling consultants within this national consulting firm were challenged by inefficient collaboration amongst peers, by not having access to the most recent versions of processes, and by inadequate knowledge ...
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
Well I've been noodling [aka procrastinating] on this post awhile - given my recent interview with Inc. Magazine on selecting collaboration tools, though, I thought it was time... For many of the organizations that I speak/work with regarding knowledge networks/communities of ...
July 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
BusinessWeek just published an article about how groups around the world are preparing for the Knowledge Economy. Notice the focus on the design of the physical space that they're proposing and how that will help foster the necessary community that will be ...
June 5th, 2009 No Comments »
This post was written by Natalie Wolfson
At Dell Inc., a corporation that has scooped up many awards for its commitment to diversity, leaders understand the importance of fostering an affirming diversity climate. Thurmond Woodward, Dell’s VP of global diversity said, “We don’t want to focus only ...
May 31st, 2009 8 Comments »
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
BusinessWeek just published an article that talks about incorporating people that aren't formally part of your organization into it's methods for innovating. The article profiles a video game company that leveraged a fan-base on Facebook to create a new game ...
March 25th, 2009 No Comments »
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
The New York Times recently published this map which shows data searches where users jumped from journal to journal as part of the knowledge they were seeking. What a great visual of knowledge networks in action... What would a map of ...
March 19th, 2009 No Comments »