Articles by:
David Vance
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Communicate Value With a Learning Annual Report
Measuring the value of an organization’s investment in learning continues to be one of the five most pressing challenges facing chief learning officers, according to a recent Online CLO Forum conducted by Accenture Learning. CLOs voiced the need to be bet
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Supporting Patient Care With Learning
The world’s oldest and largest institution devoted to cancer prevention, patient care, research and education, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center employs approximately 9,000 people, including scientists, clinicians, specialists and staff in various su
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Why Content Management Systems Fall Short of Great Learning
If the pilot on your next flight told you he had never flown a jet before but not to worry because he had read the training manual, would you stay on board? If a builder told you she had never built a house before but would have no problem building yours
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Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co.: Saving With E-Learning
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co., a leading life and health insurer, historically relied on costly classroom training to prepare its new sales representatives. Each new associate, who was often new to the sales profession in general, wa
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Nonprofit Habitat for Humanity Adopts Corporate University Model
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) estimates that more than one billion people around the world live in substandard housing or no housing at all. In fact, just in the United […]
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The Strategic Scope
HR must approach learning in a comprehensive manner. E-learning is not simply about technology anymore; it’s about improving the performance of the enterprise and linking that to improving the performance […]
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Siemens Health Services: Complying With HIPAA Requirements
Flash-forward to April 2003. An employee sends an e-mail and unwittingly commits a confidentiality breach that could be punishable by law under HIPAA. If employees cannot recognize protected health information, or if they lack the know-how to safeguard it
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Communications Training for Decision-Makers: A CLO Initiative
Most communications training is done after the fact. Once decisions have been made, new policies formulated, acquisitions and mergers agreed upon—then the communications specialists are called in to wordsmith the announcements. Communications is never inv