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Strategos and EDT Learning Announce Launch of "Radical Innovation: Breaking Rules, Building the Bottom Line"
- Eight-Hour Online Course Will Allow Corporations Worldwide to Unlock Potential, Create New Growth Opportunities -
LOS ANGELES (May 18, 2001) - Continuing to raise the bar set by its previous award-winning work, EDT Learning, a Los Angeles-based company that designs and develops online solutions to help employees and organizations excel, and its partner, Strategos, an innovation strategy firm with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and New York, today announced the launch of their new online business series: "Radical Innovation: Breaking Rules, Building the Bottom Line."
EDT Learning CEO George Weathersby and Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski said that they were excited to launch the 10-hour online experience, based on Gary Hamel's best-selling book Leading the Revolution, which helps companies create sustainable wealth through radical innovation—the upending of industry dogma and overturning of old business models in order to reset customers' expectations and surprise competitors.
Strategos Chairman Gary Hamel, described by The Economist magazine as "the world's reigning strategy guru," is a world-renowned author and consultant on strategy and innovation. Strategos' basic premise is that "change today is discontinuous, abrupt—seditious." In his book, Hamel writes that "the ability to think creatively, critically, and radically has become invaluable."
The Radical Innovation Series is a 5-course, 10-hour journey through the world of radical business innovation the lets learners study examples from today's business pages, identify opportunities by assessing their company's core competencies, work through a simulated corporate movement, get tips on unlocking innovative thoughts, and find out what it takes to make radical innovation a systemic capability within their organization.
The series is an effective way to raise awareness and begin to change behavior at all levels of an organization, and is especially powerful as part of a broader approach to driving change deep into an organization: Key senior executives participate in intensive workshops with Gary Hamel and his Strategos consultants, and the rest of the organization is introduced to these tools and concepts online.
The series features emphasizes EDT Learning's hallmarks—case studies, cutting-edge concepts, online activities, and a rich set of tools—which support the results-oriented, market-tested approach used by Strategos in organizations around the world.
About EDT Learning
EDT Learning designs and develops online solution sets that help individuals perform and organizations excel. For companies looking to boost employees' productivity and efficiency, EDT Learning provides easy-to-implement, cost-effective solutions targeted at specific business needs. For companies looking to drive change deep within their organizations, EDT Learning provides implementation components that complement the strategic planning expertise of EDT Learning's top-tier consultancy partners, which include the Strategos Institute and Andersen.
More than 800,000 employees in leading organizations worldwide have benefited from EDT Learning solutions, and the company has earned more than 50 industry awards. Key corporate clients include Toyota, Lexus, United Airlines, and Cisco. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has business development offices in Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Boston. Find out more about EDT Learning at www.edtlearning.com
About Strategos
Strategos is a global innovation strategy firm that helps organizations achieve industry leadership through strategy innovation. Strategos uses proprietary methodologies to unleash corporate imagination, bring creativity and discipline to the challenge of creating new business models, and invigorate existing business models. Strategos focuses exclusively on the innovation process and partners with companies to significantly increase the rate and quality of innovation within their businesses, and provide a capacity for real-time, corporate-wide innovation. This combination enables companies to transform existing business models, invent new businesses and launch breakthrough products on a continual basis.
Media Contacts:
Lori Escalante
EDT Learning
310-305-4290
lori.escalante@edtlearning.com
John Lamb
Strategos
650-233-1100
jlamb@strategos.com
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