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HR Critical to Align Workforce Performance With Organizational Goals
The human resources function is critical to optimize workforce performance and connect learning with organizational goals and objectives in the manufacturing industry, according to a new PeopleSoft customer survey on human capital management (HCM).
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Business-Based Learning: Strategies for Real-Time Learning
Part One of the Business-Based Learning series introduced the five-level business-based learning (BBL) model as an audience-centric approach to designing blended delivery platforms. Part Two expanded on the BBL strategies to align training activities with
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Analog Devices: Manufacturing Learning Success
Analog Devices Inc. manufactures high-performance integrated circuits that are used in analog and digital signaling processing applications. With more than 8,500 employees located in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland and the Philippines,
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Assessing the Business Impact of External Degree Programs
Corporate America spent $10 billion in 2003 on tuition reimbursement programs. Yet according to research firm Eduventures, only 2 percent of companies surveyed actually calculate a return on investment (ROI) for these programs, and only 45 percent have an
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What Counts?
Businesses exist to create value, and the source of value resides outside the learning function. As Peter Drucker has pointed out, “Neither results nor resources exist inside the business. Both exist outside. The customer is the business.”
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AT&T: Connecting Education and Strategy
AT&T Learning has restructured its organization into a vertically integrated global learning organization. AT&T Learning works closely with its business partners to develop the right solutions to help them meet their business goals
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Steve Kerr: Managing the Business of Learning
Goldman Sachs is a leader on Wall Street, where it takes more than money to tread competitive waters. It’s Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer Steve Kerr’s responsibility to ensure that Goldman Sachs executives get the training and development th
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Using Models to Manage Strategic Learning Investments
Gone are the days of technologies looking for a problem to solve. Today, technology investments must be strategic and driven by an organization’s business focus. However, not everyone fully realizes the strategic importance of technology investments