The CorpU 12 Dimension Framework™
Just as today's global corporations must find an optimal organizing structure and set of processes for each business function in order to maximize their competitive advantage, so must learning organizations create the enterprise-wide learning and development strategy, structure, and processes to ensure that they develop talent in the most effective and efficient manner across all regions and business units.
Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has distilled more than a decade of research and benchmarking into the CorpU 12 Dimension Framework™, a comprehensive best practice processes framework that describes the elements that are critical to the success of any learning organization. The best practices that comprise the framework have been vetted and validated by industry luminaries, thought leaders, and academicians focused on this topic through CorpU's annual awards program.
At the highest level, learning organization performance is described and assessed against two principal requirements: effectiveness and efficiency. Each of these two principal requirements is further subdivided in two supporting types of activities ("activity quadrants").
An effective learning organization is one that
• is closely aligned with business requirements and
• able to demonstrate measureable impact on the business and its employees.
An efficient learning organization is one that is
• properly organized and
• has rigorous and documented process requirements for execution of its function.
These four activity quadrants – Align, Measure, Organize and Execute – are each comprised of three principal dimensions that form the CorpU 12 Dimension Framework™. Learning organizations that function as strategic partners to the business have to demonstrate excellence in all 12 dimensions. The CorpU 12 Dimension Framework, therefore, describes six critical dimensions of effectiveness and six critical dimensions of efficiency needed to achieve learning excellence.
CorpU's benchmarking and advisory services measure the performance of learning organizations using the CorpU 12 Dimension Framework™ , and CorpU research provides case studies and tools that enable members to improve their processes across all of its elements. These dimensions are the thread running through CorpU's research, publishing, and advisory services; everything we do is stitched with its color.
