Traditional nine-to-five days spent at a desk are obsolete. At the same time, companies are fragmenting into dense, highly-interdependent networks – creating global business without boundaries.

And with all this going on, working practices developed for a traditional and past industrial era still dominate many of our workplaces.

Smart managers and companies are learning that new ways of working are creating competitive edge in this furiously fast and changing business environment.

You and your company could be among them.

It can be tricky

Exploring what needs to be done to make the move to new ways of working demands clarity and objectivity – tricky when you are so close to the source.

Even harder when it’s all down to you, and harder still when technologies and the business environment change so rapidly.

That’s where we come in

Our objective and outside perspective helps you to ask the right questions. We work with you to create a practical, powerful and personalised learning programme. We call it the mb*MBA.

Your personalised mb*MBA programme rapidly and painlessly helps you and your people through the transition to new working practices and behaviours.

The mb*MBA also helps you put in place all that is needed to create the essential supporting management environment.

Step-by-step – to fit you, your company and your people.

Designing the programme begins with detailed focus on your business challenge – getting to the heart of it and helping you to decide what to do and how to do it.

The mb*MBA is then created in phases, allowing you to see precisely which point you have reached and how you want to carry on.

Everything we do revolves around you and your business challenge. We give you as much help as you need; it’s up to you to decide.

Our methods are highly effective.

We’ve used them with many companies, nationally and internationally, to put in place new ways of working that introduced lean thinking and  radically improved customer service in the Russian public sector, reduced operating costs, cut manufacturing lead times, reduced absenteeism, created new business units, improved performance cultures, assessed HR requirements for mergers, and many other business benefits.

The Smart Work Learning Place is the online resource for the mb*MBA. It is where you meet peers, share your business issues in a trusted environment, and learn about workplace trends, new management practices and new ways of working.

There are four ‘learning lounges’ at the Learning Place, each with a general theme: Smart Strategising, Smart Managing, Smart Collaborating and Smart Working.

The Learning Place is waiting for you to log in and think in a way which suits you. The Learning Place gives you time to breath, learn, think and reflect in your own time and in your own way.

This is learning as it should be – social, natural, patient, flexible and human.