HP Innovation Journal Issue 10: Fall 2018 | Page 64

HP’s Personal Systems (PS) business is situated in
various sites around the globe, but one of our most
strategic locations is in Taipei. We have a vibrant,
engaged community here and a group of team members
who are critical to our success. Because of this strategic
importance, last year we set out to further invest in
growing and developing future leaders at the site.
HP has enjoyed a great partnership with
Stanford University for the past six years,
during which we’ve run a leadership
development program called Building
Innovative Leaders (BIL).
PS has had many employees participate in this worldwide
program and will continue to do so, but we were looking for
a way to scale this in a more accelerated fashion for Taipei,
tailored to the local culture and including additional leadership
development aspects. Therefore, in August 2017, PS designed,
launched and conducted the first cohort of the Growing
Innovative Leaders (GIL) program in partnership with
National Taiwan University (NTU).
ACCO R D I N G TO M EGATR E N DS …
Rapid urbanization, changing demographics, hyper global-
ization and accelerated innovation will shape the way we live,
work and lead for the future. We needed a way to enable our
employees to grow, lead and innovate locally with velocity.
Therefore, we sourced several programs with universities in
Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) and finally landed on NTU as
the best fit for HP’s needs.
NTU is the leading tier-one university in
Taiwan, ranked among the world’s top 50
in all five subject areas featured in the QS
World University Rankings by Subject.
NTU offers a tailored program for HP through the College of
Management. Each module of the GIL program is facilitated
by one of NTU’s renowned professors.
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The GIL program is hugely valuable both for our aspiring
leaders, and to the competitive and innovative health of
our PS business. Many ideas that are generated from this
program’s curriculum can help us grow faster and realize
our future strategies more quickly.
The program consists of 10 modules lasting nine months.
Three modules fall under the heading of Leading Yourself &
Your Team; three modules under Leading Business; and three
modules under Leading Change. The last module is a chance
for the participants to show the impact of their learnings
by sharing results of real business challenges facing the PS
business, and how they have used and applied what they have
learned through the program to come up with solutions.
THIS INITIAL GIL PROGRAM WAS
TREMENDOUSLY VALUABLE:
4.7/5
satisfaction survey results
10%
of the participants in Cohort 1 were promoted during
the program, and the value to the business was evident.