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Giant Eagle: Technology-Driven Training Results
Giant Eagle, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., employs around 32,000 people and operates 213 supermarkets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia. Human resources managers located in each individual store manage the people side of the equation
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Managing Education to Maximize Impact
Many years of evaluating many training initiatives in many different companies has made one fact very clear: Sometimes training works very well to help achieve business results, and sometimes (unfortunately many times) it does not. It is also becoming cle
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Kinko’s: Documenting Success
With 20,000 team members working in more than 1,100 different locations, Kinko’s understands the value of training that can be delivered anytime, anywhere. To help reduce costs associated with instructor-led training and to enable a blended learning solut
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Huffy Bicycles: Learning New Ways to Prosper
Huffy Bicycles has been the core business of Huffy Corp. for more than 50 years. Most of that time the company featured one brand, Huffy, which was a market leader in inexpensive juvenile bicycles primarily sold through mass-merchandisers like Wal-Mart, T
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The Key Ingredients to Knowledge Management
In the July issue, I highlighted the comeback of the knowledge management strategy. One of the key reasons behind the resurgence in this burgeoning enterprise application is the use of enterprise application integration (EAI) software and extract, transfo
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Eaton Corp.: Measuring Education Diversity
Eaton Corp. is a diversified international manufacturer that had sales in 2002 of $7.2 billion. Eaton University is responsible for the training and development needs of the corporation’s 51,000 employees, in more than 50 countries. To handle the needs of
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Best Practices in Learning Measurement
A top question often asked of organizations creating and revising processes for learning measurement is, ‘What are the best practices?’ This question is asked more and more because training departments are being asked to prove their value more and more. I
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The Next Generation of Live Learning
Today’s online classrooms (referred to by many as “virtual classrooms”) are effective in disseminating training content to a large number of remote learners. Online classrooms deliver live training along with the ability to archive the live training sessi