Introducing the new CLIP framework

How do you ensure that your learning function is actively contributing to the strategy and business priorities of your organisation? What is excellence in corporate learning all about? And how do you get a fair outside-in view of your learning and development function that is not a mere check-the-box process but one that takes your context into account, engages your stakeholders, and fuels your function’s strategic development?

These were the kind of questions addressed by EFMD’s launch of its Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP) in the early 2000s, under the leadership of Gordon Shenton, its first Director. CLIP has since then become the premier quality management tool for corporate learning. It combines assessment and development of a learning function and rests upon a framework of quality standards and on a tested process of self-assessment and peer review.

The CLIP quality framework has been refreshed and redesigned for 2021. The new CLIP framework is structured in five chapters, each with three standards composed of four criteria. The chapter flow follows a clear value chain logic and covers all relevant aspects of a world-class learning organisation.