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Orbital RPM specializes in strategies that position organizations to compete in a market based on knowledge, ideas, networks and all things intangible.
Success hinges on your ability to innovate, collaborate, and leverage the collective intelligence in a socially networked world. Evolving from an industrial to a intangible economy requires strategies that have undergone the same transformation. 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 a supplier or training is irrelevant.
Orbital RPM's Organizational Learning solution gets the right information into the right heads at the ...
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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: This $5 billion Fortune 500 mining company has operations scattered around the globe; and each location relies on an extended network of constructors, consultants, communities and governments in order ...
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
"What is essential is invisible." There's a lot of talk going on these days about how businesses need to embrace their social nature and intangible elements in order to compete [see Enterprise 2.0, Social Business Design, etc.]. The reason being that very few businesses produce anything tangible and even ...
January 12th, 2010 4 Comments »
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
This has been a common conversation for me over the last 5 years or so... Most People: What is it that you do again? Me: I help companies operate and compete in a knowledge-based economy. Most People: Huh? Me: I work with companies on their learning,development, knowledge management, innovation, marketing, HR and other processes ...
September 17th, 2009 10 Comments »
This post was written by Natalie Wolfson
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” - Arie De Geus, former head of planning for Shell Oil Company Organizations, each year, spend billions of dollars on training and development (T&D) in order ...
August 25th, 2009 No Comments »
This post was written by Jacob McNulty
Microsoft's line of videos about business collaboration are well done and inspire a lot of thought about the possibilities of the new networked business landscape. What they make me wonder though is which product are they espousing be used for this purpose? Although it's flying off the shelves, SharePoint ...
July 6th, 2009 No Comments »
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 1 Comment »