The world and its business environments are in a state of constant change. The reality today is that organizations and their leaders are faced with increasingly daunting demands for change and, unless they build organizations that can keep pace with these fast-changing environments, it will be a challenge simply to survive while, at the same time, continuing to thrive and embrace uncertainty and disorder. One effective example of a world-renowned company that survived an existential crisis to become the number one brand in its field is the LEGO Group. In Building a Global Learning Organization (Productivity Press, 2014), the authors showed how to develop and implement a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) methods of good supervision. The goal was to create and sustain standardized work across multiple languages and cultural platforms to maintain the highest quality of the product as the company expanded internationally. In the book, you learn how the LEGO Group, as a multinational global company, worked on business transformation through changes in organizational learning systems, including new ways of working and other Lean transformational initiatives. Great organizations across the globe have used this text as a benchmark for global and national rollouts of the TWI programs and standard work initiatives. Based on this rich experience building a global learning organization, it became clear that basic structures needed to be put into place in order to effectively create and manage the change process. In this book, you get a first-hand account of how the LEGO Group met these challenges by developing and implementing a framework for change to create a common approach to designing, leading, and anchoring change in a thoughtful, effective and impactful way. The author gives you insights into the journey which began by designing the LEGO Way of Change, a philosophy fully in line with the “LEGO Promises” of People, Play, Partner and Planet. She describes the process of testing the approach in a bigger transformation which, based on pilot learnings, was implemented in transformational initiatives. This book outlines some of the approaches to change that LEGO implemented in order to ensure change is both successfully implemented and sustained including in-depth guides on impactful interventions with both leaders and employees in the organization. The author discusses personalizing and navigating change as well as designing change into the organization and measuring its impact. You will continue learning more from specific case studies focused on different kinds of transformation, from reshaping functional teams to optimizing lead time through improved ways of working. The case studies will be across various functional areas including development, marketing, and operations. Essentially, this book is a first-hand account of dynamic organizational change management and how it is accomplished on a global scale from one of the most successful and truly progressive organizations on the planet, the LEGO Group.

The world and its business environments are in a state of constant change. The reality today is that organizations and their leaders are faced with increasingly daunting demands for change and, unless they build organizations that can keep pace with these fast-changing environments, it will be a challenge simply to survive while, at the same time, continuing to thrive and embrace uncertainty and disorder. One effective example of a world-renowned company that survived an existential crisis to become the number one brand in its field is the LEGO Group. In Building a Global Learning Organization (Productivity Press, 2014), the authors showed how to develop and implement a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) methods of good supervision. The goal was to create and sustain standardized work across multiple languages and cultural platforms to maintain the highest quality of the product as the company expanded internationally. In the book, you learn how the LEGO Group, as a multinational global company, worked on business transformation through changes in organizational learning systems, including new ways of working and other Lean transformational initiatives. Great organizations across the globe have used this text as a benchmark for global and national rollouts of the TWI programs and standard work initiatives. Based on this rich experience building a global learning organization, it became clear that basic structures needed to be put into place in order to effectively create and manage the change process. In this book, you get a first-hand account of how the LEGO Group met these challenges by developing and implementing a framework for change to create a common approach to designing, leading, and anchoring change in a thoughtful, effective and impactful way. The author gives you insights into the journey which began by designing the LEGO Way of Change, a philosophy fully in line with the “LEGO Promises” of People, Play, Partner and Planet. She describes the process of testing the approach in a bigger transformation which, based on pilot learnings, was implemented in transformational initiatives. This book outlines some of the approaches to change that LEGO implemented in order to ensure change is both successfully implemented and sustained including in-depth guides on impactful interventions with both leaders and employees in the organization. The author discusses personalizing and navigating change as well as designing change into the organization and measuring its impact. You will continue learning more from specific case studies focused on different kinds of transformation, from reshaping functional teams to optimizing lead time through improved ways of working. The case studies will be across various functional areas including development, marketing, and operations. Essentially, this book is a first-hand account of dynamic organizational change management and how it is accomplished on a global scale from one of the most successful and truly progressive organizations on the planet, the LEGO Group.

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO (R) Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group's worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization-whether large or small, national or international-can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group's worldwide Learning Organization.The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization.Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application.The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small, national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.