CorpU Webinar-Stevens and Con Edison: Creating an On-line Program for Senior Executives

Topics: Program Design & Delivery, Partnerships

Tags: corporate-college partnerships, project teams, virtual learning

Overview

How Stevens and ConEd created a program for ConEd's senior executives designed to give them the analytical skills they need to improve the company's workflow. The custom course, “Analytic Capabilities for Business Improvement,” offers Con Edison employees structured methods for decision making and business improvement processes. ConEd senior management selected key executives for a 6-week pilot. These executives from departments across the company collaborated in virtual teams to design and implement real-time business projects with an impact on the firm's day-to-day working environment. At the end of the course, the virtual teams presented their projects to top management. The course will now be rolled out four times year to encompass nearly all senior managers at key departments.

What You Will Learn:

• How your company can generate virtual teams for your learning events
• How to engage top executives in strategic learning programs
• How to manage an instructor-led online course with senior executives
• How to create a collaboration that delivers value to both the corporation and the college

Presenters: Robert Ubell, Dean of the School of Professional Education at Stevens, launched the school's first online graduate program, WebCampus.Stevens, in 2000. The award-winning program will enroll its 10,000th student this fall. Earlier, Ubell held a number of positions in scientific publishing, including vice-president and editor-in-chief of Plenum Publishing Corporation and founding publisher of Nature Biotechnology. Ubell has also held senior posts as an Internet executive – president of BioMedNet and executive vice president for new media at Marcel Dekker – and was head of his own consulting firm, Robert Ubell Associates. Ubell serves on the Corporate e-Learning Advisory Board of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and, until recently, was Principal Investigator of the Greater New York City Online Learning Center at Stevens, funded by the Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Luther Tai is the Senior Vice President of Central Services for Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. He is a lawyer and engineer with more than 35 years of utility industry experience and is in charge of operations for The Learning Center, Con Edison's corporate university. Tai is also responsible for Human Resources, Information Resources, Purchasing, Central Field Services, Security, Energy Management, and Research and Development. Prior to his current position, he served as Senior Vice President of Central Operations. Tai also served as Vice President of Corporate Planning. He serves on the board of Regional Plan Association, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Stevens Institute of Technology’s WebCampus.