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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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