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Business Strategy: Linking Education to Business Goals
The strategic choices a company makes from the technologies it implements to the products and services it creates and the markets it serves all have a profound influence on the knowledge, skills and competencies required to succeed.
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Using Models to Manage Strategic Learning Investments
Gone are the days of technologies looking for a problem to solve. Today, technology investments must be strategic and driven by an organization’s business focus. However, not everyone fully realizes the strategic importance of technology investments
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Contextualized Learning: Empowering Education
Customers expect responses in real time. The sales cycle requires access to market trends in real time. And when organizations cannot or do not make critical learning content available in real time, individuals resort to the click-through ease of the Inte
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Don’t Use a Hammer When You Need a Screwdriver
Self-paced, Web-based learning and Web conferencing are powerful tools to address an organization’s communication and training needs. Since each tool has its own strengths and limitations, organizations should use these online learning modes in the most e
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Assessing the Business Impact of External Degree Programs
Corporate America spent $10 billion in 2003 on tuition reimbursement programs. Yet according to research firm Eduventures, only 2 percent of companies surveyed actually calculate a return on investment (ROI) for these programs, and only 45 percent have an
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Emotional Engagement
How important are emotions in the full-engagement process? What role does emotion play in completing any important mission? To help our clients answer these questions, we put them through a simple test that even the toughest National Football League super
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A Return to Centralized Learning
Many have offered creative approaches to organizational structure, but leaders and authors agree that there is no best practice. However, it is widely accepted that structure should align with and support the business strategy.
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Translating Lofty Goals Into Action
In prior columns, I’ve talked about an execution gap in organizations—the gap between setting a goal and achieving it. To close the execution gap, leaders must practice four disciplines of execution: focus on the wildly important goal, create a compelling