Global Opportunities and Challenges for Corporate Universities Lee Caldwell Gulf University for Science and Technology

Context 1993 – 400 Corporate Universities 2001 – 2,000 Corporate Universities Today – 10,000 More globally based

Professional Context University professor, dean, VP and President VP – IBM – Internet Strategy 1995 to 1999 VP/CTO – HP 1999 to Served on the enterprise workforce development board of directors overseeing all training and development activities at HP

Changes Program Content – Business Specific Skills – Organizational Learning and Communications – Sales and Customer Relationships – Compliance – Management and Executive Training

Providers More concentration in technology companies ranging from $2 billion to $12.5 billion per year. More shift to on-line and mixed models. Learning Management Systems are essential for maintaining compliance records. More shifts to global standards and models.

Sample HP Budget 2002 Total Workforce development budget $400 million. 85% compliance training – Health and safety – Product development concerns – Securities training 5% general leadership, sales training, etc. 1% executive development 2.5% ($10 million) Tuition reimbursement

Making Things Work Understand compliance environment Support the LMS environment of the corporation. Custom fit services need to be provided. Risks: Corporate universities tend to set the present into concrete. Modern companies are constantly challenged to invent the future. I have seen no successful models developed by corporate universities to address this issue.