Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

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Program management is a highly valued function within the company and a key role to the ongoing deployment of Corning’s innovation strategy. Inherent in the function is a serious risk of failure in any given program, yet that goes with the territory of new product creation. The participants wanted assurances that they could survive individual moments of reversal in the fortunes of any specific program, and they were seeking to understand plausible future trajectories for program leaders. There was a keen interest in understanding preferred developmental paths and a community of practice to share learning, insight, and peer-to-peer consultative guidance. Peter Volanakis was explicit in his perspective that program management is ...