FM.nl (Financieel Management) has invited
dr. Martijn Rademakers to join the expert blog
team 2012.

Martijn will blog on strategy, leadership and change
in relation to financial management. His first blog entry is now online.

The book ‘Corporate Universities: Aanjagers van de lerende organisatie’ (drivers of the learning organization) will be published by Kluwer and will be available in the second week of February 2012.

The Center for Strategy & Leadership has bought two pieces of art at an art auction aimed to raise money for the tsunami victims in Japan.

Several artists donated a selection of their fine pieces of art for this auction, which was recently held in Japan museum SieboldHuis in Leiden, the Netherlands.

The money raised by the auction will be used to help restore the cultural heritage of Sendai, a large city severely damaged by the tsunami and earthquakes of March 2011.

The book is currently being written by a group of strategy professors, corporate university leaders, and corporate learning experts.

Senior managers, consultants, and HRD professionals will greatly benefit from this book, which is due to be published in the second half of this year.

Publication by Martijn Rademakers in the Dutch Financial management Journal "Financial management’’, December 2010.

The article covers the role of financial managers in strategy formation and realization.

The web-based version of the Corporate Universtiy Profiler (CU Profiler) has been perfected and is in use.

The CU Profiler helps CU professionals to develop a robust strategy for their corporate university, and compare and contrast their CU Profile with that of their peers.

In Financieel Management ("Financial Management") Dr. Martijn Rademakers talks about the role of financial managers during the process of strategy formation and execution.

"Just a few people know the top-selling Dutch management book. A new edition will change that." 

The new Corporate University Profiler is an instrument visualizing the strategic agenda for Corporate Universities. The tool enables Corporate Universities to determine their fit with the general strategy of the organization it serves.

The new editions of Strategy – Process, Content, Context (4^th edition) and Strategy Synthesis (3^rd edition) are published.