When we began planning the 2026 EFMD Executive Development Conference at UCD Smurfit Executive Development, our ambition was to move beyond the rhetoric surrounding AI and explore what is happening in practice. For executive educators, two questions matter: how is AI changing the organisations we serve and the capabilities their leaders need? And how might…

The EFMD Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Roundtable, that joined this year IMD’s annual CLO Circle at IMD in Lausanne, brought together more than 50 learning and development leaders to explore how organisations can strengthen their geopolitical resilience. IMD and EFMD Global brought together their learning leader networks to examine how organisations can develop the capabilities…

Once learning is aligned with the business, how do we demonstrate its contribution to the results? For many years, one of the principal challenges facing learning functions was showing how their portfolios aligned with their organisation’s strategy. Learning teams needed to move beyond reporting the programmes they delivered and explain how those programmes supported the…

What is CLIP Most medium-sized and large organisations have a corporate learning function, whether they are called a corporate university, an academy or just learning and development (L&D). As these functions don’t compete with each other and their markets are captive, there are numerous approaches. Which one is effective depends very much on the organisational…

A global strategy bestseller has returned with new cases and fresh insights for today’s business landscape, 20 years after it changed the way many organisations think about competition and growth. Blue Ocean Strategy, by INSEAD Professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, now has an enhanced edition that brings its framework into the age of…

We are pleased to announce that ERG Corporate University (ERGCU) has successfully completed the EFMD Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP) and received CLIP accreditation for a five-year period. CLIP is a premier quality management tool for corporate learning. It benchmarks a learning function against international standards of strategic positioning, target market, learning offer, operational model and…