Leadership & Learning
Welcome to Getty Consulting! We help organizations create systems using intranet technology that enhance their learning and communications.
We believe that the best ideas are born of collaboration. When people are working together to create something that everyone has a stake in, the experience is far more exciting and the results more positive.
Getty Consulting helps organizations create systems using intranet technology that enhance their learning and communications. We use web-based approaches to create a learning network that reaches throughout the organization. Technology is the tool, but we realize that technology, alone, does not suffice. An organization’s ability to use knowledge depends on how enthusiastic people are about sharing it. Ensuring that people share and use each other’s knowledge means that technological solutions must be integrated with the organization’s business strategy and culture.
This requires a team-based approach. We work with a network of highly skilled professionals and organizations that share similar values of integrity and high performance. We draw from this group to create project-specific teams with the optimal blend of new technologies and talent.
We believe that the best ideas are born of collaboration. When people are working together to create something that everyone has a stake in, the experience is far more exciting and the results more positive.
We strive to create collaborative relationships among the organization’s internal functions such as Information Systems, Communications, and Human Resources. Together we arrive at imaginative solutions to create an enterprise-wide learning culture that permeates every aspect of the business.
In short, we work to build successful long-term partnerships with clients by crafting innovative, cost-effective solutions that increase their ability to learn and adapt.
Our Philosophy
We believe that organizations must invent ways of engaging employees in meaningful activities, of providing access to resources that enhance their participation, of opening their horizons so they can put themselves on worthwhile learning trajectories, and of involving them in actions, discussions, and reflections that make a difference to themselves and to the organization.
Most learning occurs outside the classroom. It occurs in the daily interactions, the successes, the failures, the rhythm of working together.
In a geographically dispersed and ever-changing workplace, how do maximize the learning that’s found in this rhythm? Web-based technology provides an architecture, a structure, for doing so. But ultimately, implementing a successful system for sharing knowledge is a question of culture. It may take a relatively short period of time to install the technology but the social design of the Intranet – developing trust, reciprocity, and commitment – requires a longer time to nurture and grow. It is an iterative process and not a one-time initiative.
Online environments enrich but don’t replace other forms of communication. Technology provides the means, but people themselves provide the basis for the circulation of ideas, mutual support, and innovation.
Intranets are the virtual meeting place for both the head and heart of organizations.
Imagine this…
Imagine creating an Intranet-based Intranet that serves as a Corporate Commons: a virtual space that builds community by bringing employees together throughout the organization; a space where employees can work on real problems and generate creative solutions; a place where they can share knowledge, stories, and resources.
Creating an Intranet-based learning environment will reap these benefits for your organizations;