Interview with Anne Reed (President and CEO) and Bill Kaplan (CKO), Acquisition Solutions
VINE/Emerald Publications Ltd (June 2008)

Anne F. Thomson Reed President & CEO Acquisition Solutions, Inc.	Bill Kaplan Chief Knowledge Officer (KM) Acquisition Solutions, Inc.

Excerpts:

How does your view of yourselves as a learning organization support your growth and evolution?
Anne Reed: I know that helping our company to craft a meaningful and clear vision, mission, and operating principles that included becoming a learning company was not enough. Even providing the training and the right incentives wouldn't do it. Actually operating as a learning company, one that not only captures lessons learned, but also "learns lessons" as we operate and then transfers those lessons across our company, required 1) fosterning a culture of openness and collaboration, 2) appreciating and leveraging our diversity, and 3) ensuring that we maintained as our operating principles "consistent reflection" for everything we did. This facilitated both our ability to maintain our competitive advantage and our competencies as a consulting company. We recognized that as our competition and our customers change, we must always be operating "faster than the speed of this change" to continue to grow, to prosper, and to continue to deliver the highest value we can to our clients and to our employees. ... Read Full Interview