Elements of The Learning Company:
  1. Learning approach to strategy
  2. Participative policy making
  3. Informating
  4. Formative
  5. Internal change
  6. Reward flexibility
  7. Enabling structures
  8. Boundary workers as environmental scanners
  9. Inter-company learning

Principle:

Comprehensive approach with 11 features common in learning organisations


Issues:
  1. Learning approach to strategy -> enabling continuous improvement based on experience
  2. Participative policy making -> involving all members of the organisation
  3. Information -> by using information technology to inform and empower people
  4. Formative -> and control to assist learning and add value within the organisation
  5. Internal change -> in which all internal units and departments see themselves as customers and suppliers in a partly regulated collaborative market economy
  6. Reward flexibility -> that challenges previously unstated, hidden and unrecognised assumptions that govern the way people are rewarded
  7. Enabling structures -> to create an organisational architecture to meet current needs while providing the scope for responding to future change
  8. Boundary workers as environmental scanners -> involving all employees interacting with customers, suppliers, channels and even competitors
  9. Inter-company learning -> through mutually advantageous activities between departments and divisions, with suppliers and those in the distribution channel
  10. Inter-company learning -> and culture fostered by managers facilitating experimentation and learning from experience aimed at continuous improvement
  11. Self-development for all -> where people are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and development

Applications:

To analyse if an organisation can anticipate change and make sense of chaos to respond


Source of The Learning Company:

(Pedler, Boydell & Borgoyne, 1991)