With more than 100 corporate members from international companies, public organizations, consultancies and executive development centers, IDSL provides its members with a unique forum for networking, information-sharing and linking to latest research.
Best practices and innovation of the Learning & Development functions are at the core of IDSL corporate services, be it Management Development, Professional, Talent and Organisational Development.
IDSL offers a range of activities specifically designed for its corporate members at different levels:
>>As an enabler, IDSL connects its members and encourages informal sharing of experiences and expertise;
>>As a facilitator, IDSL makes knowledge explicit and ready to be shared to a larger audience of professionals during workshops and seminars; and
>>As a driver, IDSL systemises corporate learning and development knowledge in applied research and reports.
At the core of IDSL's unique capabilities is its accreditation of Corporate Learning Organisations. Accreditation of Corporate Learning Organisations
IDSL helps its members to enhance their Corporate Learning Organisation performance, through the Corporate Learning Improvement Process (Matrix). Matrix is a strategic peer review tool for corporate universities, learning centres and academies, but moreover a vibrant learning community of corporate learning officers (CLOs) dedicating time for benchmarking and sharing of best practices. So far, 16 Corporate Learning Organisations have successfully gone through a review and related improvement process and were accredited the "Matrix" quality label.
Professional Development and Networking
IDSL enables members to connect with peers in a very informal and trusted environment.
Members choose to become part of the wider Community of Corporate Learning Professionals as a source and continuous flow of information on corporate learning and development. This supports their personal development as well as the organisational learning processes.
IDSL acts as an information broker connecting individuals with similar interests and also provides connections with learning suppliers when requested.
Specific communities such as the Matrix accredited companies and its CLO Community as well as topic-based Special Interest Groups (SIG) are also supported and facilitated by IDSL with focus on shared business issues and related learning & development solutions.
Sharing and Exchanging Experiences and Expertise
IDSL organises and facilitates events which are tailored to suit our different members' needs.Sharing-Best-Practice Matrix workshops
Led by representatives of the IDSL CLO community, HR and learning & development professionals meet twice a year to work in depth on the key challenges modern corporate learning functions are facing. The Matrix accredited companies share their experience with complementary inputs supported by other CLOs and/or Business Schools. These events are designed for senior corporate HR and learning & development practitioners from the IDSL network and selected invited guests. As an interactive forum, this community of practitioners can be of great value for your company.
>Special Interest Groups (SIG)
>As highly focused problem-driven learning groups, SIGs allow members to mobilize the collective intelligence of the Learning & Development community to build solutions to common challenges. Based on a "problem centric" collaborative approach, a temporary community tackles a set of agreed specific shared challenges, with the support of high level experts to facilitate and a prime peer to identify initial challenges and scope.
Corporate Advisory Seminars (CAS)
These seminars are usually run as a co-operation of our consultancy and Executve Development Center members and their corporate clients and partners. Expertise and practices are examined by an audience of executive education and corporate learning professionals from our Business Schools, Companies and Consultancy members.
Knowledge and Information Services
As a common platform for Corporations and Business Schools, IDSL works with its Business School members to engage in research and to use the Matrix process and the wider Learning Peer-Network as a forum for dialogue on current and future research focus and gaps in the areas of Corporate Learning and Human Resource Development.
A recent applied research report was published in September 2008. It drew on the experiences, knowledge and practices from 12 Matrix reviews and offered an inside view on how to achieve the gold standard in corporate learning.
By organising its "Excellence in Practice Award", IDSL invites members to submit case studies describing an effective and innovative partnership between a company and a management development provider. Papers are short-listed by a committee, the three finalists present their cases at the IDSL Annual Conference and their case studies are published in the IDSL Global Focus magazine as well as in international media.
IDSL also provides access to knowledge and information on management education from a wide range of sources. This is summarised in the regular IDSL E-News and the IDSL business magazine Global Focus as well as the corporate webzine informing on upcoming activities and interesting opportunities within and outside the network.
IDSL also offers privileged access to conferences and seminars, such as the "Benchmarking for Business" conferences, gathering speakers with ground-breaking thinking.