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University Solutions: Partnering for Real-World Results
The corporate world largely underuses four-year universities and community colleges as resources. The Chief Learning Officer magazine Business Intelligence Board survey shows that almost half of the companies surveyed have no relationship with a unive
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Sanofi-Aventis: Reaching New Heights Through Continuous Learning
As the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis continues to make advancements in the development of new medications in the areas of oncology, the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system, diabetes and internal medicine.
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A Salute to Outstanding Educators
A few years after graduate school and before I moved into the corporate world, I had the good fortune to teach at a university for a couple of years with remarkable fellow professors. I was recently reflecting just how much I learned from these devoted fa
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Sideways
There’s a big problem in the online learning world. There’s content out there that’s of marginal quality at best, and corporate budget-meisters look askance at the prospect of more spending in the field with uncertain payoffs. Although higher quality is p
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Driving Greater Value From an LMS
Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted
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Cerner: Providing a Hub for Learning
In an industry as complex as health-care IT, associate and client training is crucial to a company�s success. Cerner committed itself to investing in learning and development with the launch in 1996 of Cerner Virtual University. Robert Campbell, a learn
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Making Your LMS Dance
It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav
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Targeting Learning to the Social Network
Coach Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants knows something about training and development. When the Giants lost a game to the Seattle SeaHawks in overtime, Coughlin said, “It takes a whole team to win—teamwork wins every time over individual effort.” The r












