Abstract

Abstract
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in management and executive education which, paradoxically, has been accompanied by a crisis of confidence manifested in debates about its direction, relevance, and effectiveness. Outside academia, innovative corporate training enterprises increasingly provide the type of management training where learning is distributed at the time of need, embedded in a work context, and delivered in rapid "bite-sized pieces," which aim to meet participants' needs in terms of depth of information coverage, timeliness of delivery, and job relatedness. We draw on a series of interviews associated with one such enterprise that is believed to be an exemplar for innovative thinking in this field to explore the possibility that innovations of this type may have something to offer other mainstream providers of management learning and education in terms of the type and style of delivery employed.