Learning Delivery
Learning delivery is the method in which organizations provide training and development programs for employees. Management can create e-learning courses and continuous learning experiences for their employees.
Turner Construction Company’s James Mitnick: The Business of Building Learning
James Mitnick, senior vice president of Turner Construction Company, knows the ins and outs of his organization. He should. He’s spent the past 35 years acquiring and sharing knowledge, and helping to secure Turner’s place as one of the top companies in
Scotiabank: Cashing In on a Community of Learning
Many companies embrace a centralized learning model to offer learning and development opportunities to their various employee populations. Scotiabank, which offers retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking services to millions of customers arou
Getting It Right: How to Learn From the Past
In the past decade, I have had the opportunity to review the effectiveness (or lack of it) of at least 100 learning and development centers and corporate universities. A center and its programs are often impressive on paper, but a deeper analysis sometime
Top-Performing Organizations Connect Leadership Development and Financial Success
Leadership development has long been linked to the execution of successful business strategies, but a recent study from leadership development solutions provider Ninth House has uncovered several trends of top-performing organizations as well as a financi
Beyond the Talk About Blended Learning
Are you skeptical about blended learning? There has been a lot of talk about blending, and any topic that's on everybody's lips isn't typically on mine.
EDS: When People are the Product
EDS is a global corporation that provides a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions to help clients improve their business performance. The firm’s core portfolio includes information technology, applications and business process services and
Blended Learning v2.0: Multi-Sensory Solutions
Turn back the clock six years to the turn of the new century—everybody was a “paper millionaire,” Google was a college experiment, and e-learning was poised to take over the world.
Increasing the Productivity of the Mobile Sales Force
Dramatic increases in salesforce productivity can be realized when an organization’s learning strategy is based on business priorities, with the needs of increasingly mobile sales professionals clearly in mind. Success requires focused execution with a st
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries: Transformation Through Blended Learning
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), nearly 100 years old, has gone through countless changes over the years. From its roots as a chemist cooperative, API has grown to become a national pharmacy distribution network with chains of pharmacies, wareh
LandAmerica: Selling a New Learning Structure
About five years ago, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. changed its historically franchise-based operations style and molded its decentralized structure into a centralized, streamlined corporate entity with standardized processes and procedures.
Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006
Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr