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No Time for PB&J: The Need for Speed
“I feel the need, the need for speed,” said actor Tom Cruise, playing Maverick in the movie “Top Gun.” While this dialogue served as simple fighter-pilot bravado, it could just as easily be the refrain of today’s top business executives and consumers.
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What Lies Ahead
I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.—Albert Einstein I was reducing my pile of reading materials recently when I came across the quote above. I had to […]
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The Promise and Reality of Technology-Based Simulations
Technology-based simulations have been a niche for several decades limited largely to specialized processes such as flying an aircraft, operating on a patient or managing disorder at a nuclear power plant. However, corporate decision makers are applying t
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Creating an Effective IT Learning Program
Today, organizations are discovering the positive impact that learning has on productivity. This is apparent with the recent inclusion of world-class behaviors and employee development at executive levels. Both trends place an increased importance on the
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U.S. Department of State: Retaining the Best and the Brightest
Secretary of State Colin Powell has called our diplomatic personnel “America’s first line of offense.” To make sure we have the best and brightest IT personnel supporting this mission, the Department embarked on an ambitious program to attract, train and
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Chief Learning Officer for What?
In charting a new course for the chief learning officer, many complex issues should be addressed and indeed the position should be the most productivity-critical one within an organization. The following areas include some that are often neglected and oth
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Business-Based Learning: Innovative Delivery to Increase Productivity
Within today’s fast-paced business economy, learning can no longer be isolated from daily business activities. Learning must be repackaged so that it transforms from an overhead expense to a strategic business tool. In other words, how do learning consume
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LMS: Is Your Organization Ready?
Research has shown that implementation times for LMS projects are long—six to 12 months (average company by size)—but nearly one-third run beyond one year to implement.