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When it comes to process and operational innovation, first hand information and observation about how best-in-class companies work and operate is worth a thousand HBR articles. Launch Institute organizes visits to best in class organizations to share best practice and enable benchmarking. We take a team representing cross-business units of your organization on a journey to visit companies who are best -in-class in a dimension that your organization needs to learn about. The Launch Institute designs and supports this focused research trip in a way that puts experiential client learning at its core. The dimensions that challenge clients most frequently take the form of a transition to a new value proposition, but any large business challenge you face can be supported by a Learning Journey. On past journeys our clients have learned how to create and manage a culture shift; how to build a learning organization; how to incorporate physical space design into a new facility; how to build a market creation capability; how to jump-start an e-commerce solution, how to hone market sensing skills. Some of our recent visits have included:
3M Airborne Express and Logistics ArvinMeritor BMW Palo Alto Boston Stock Exchange CalStart CiBOLA Cisco Creative Artists Agency Degussa ELab ELoan Ethicon GE Training Center General Magic Harley-Davidson Herman Miller IDEO Institute for the Future Johnson Controls, Inc. Kyocera-San Diego Maxwell Technologies Merril Lynch Financial Milestone Group Netscape Nike Novartis AG PanAmSat Parsons Pfizer Pharmaceuticals REI Royal Dutch Shell SAS Institute Saturn SCHOTTGlas Siemens Silicon Graphics Sony Design Steelcase Sun Microsystems The Boeing Company Unocal Whirlpool-Brandywine Yahoo |