Talent Management
An organization’s talent management encompasses the acquisition and strategic development of talent, as well as leadership’s responsibility to the organization’s culture that attracts talent to the company.
The CLO’s Critical Role: Adding Value to the Organization
The demanding role of the CLO is rapidly changing. Recently, Tamar Elkeles, chief learning officer for QUALCOMM, and I had the pleasure of presenting a session based on our research and experience of the chief learning officer’s critical role. This is the
Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
Grooming the Next CLO
Chief learning officers often play a significant role in the succession planning activities for an organization. However, some evidence suggests that CLOs are not succeeding in developing their own staff to take on top-level learning executive positions w
Does Your Enterprise Need a Chief Change Officer?
As a learning executive, you know the importance of the chief learning officer (CLO) to an organization. But according to Randy Kesterson, CEO and founding executive director of The Society for Leadership of Change,” organizations may need a chief change
The CLO’s Path
Executives who make investment decisions around learning, whether they’re called “chief learning officer,” “vice president of learning and development” or some other title, come from diverse backgrounds. Many learning executives work their way up through
Deutsche Bank: Building Global Learning
Deutsche Bank, a global firm with almost 70,000 employees, offers financial services in 74 countries, competing to be a leading global provider of financial solutions. The firm offers services in corporate banking and securities, transaction banking, asse
Governing Learning & Development
Every other month, we administer a brief Web-based survey to CLO magazine’s Business Intelligence Board (BIB) on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that make up the diverse role of a senior learning executive. For this mo
Capturing the Intellectual Capital of Baby-Boomers
The number of baby-boomers reaching retirement age is staggering. Currently, 32.8 million Americans are between 55 and 69 years old, and this number will increase to 39.7 million by 2005. With the largest-growing segment of the American workforce being th
Why Does Learning Matter?
Today, executive management understands that organizational learning enables organizational performance. It enables agility, change and growth. Because it is the centerpiece of the strategy to recruit, retain and leverage the most talented people, learnin
How Will Interest in Outsourcing Change the CLO’s Role?
According to a recent IDC study, the market for business process outsourcing (BPO) in the learning function reached $2 billion in 2003, an increase of 150 percent over 2002. Big numbers, yes, but the forecast numbers are even bigger: a $10 billion learnin
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Periodically, all of us feel like we are trapped in Groundhog Day. We seem to face similar problems over and over. We’re forced to deal repeatedly with our habits and their consequences. Each of us know certain types of people who provide us with special
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).
Why Is Outsourcing So Popular in the Enterprise?
Outsourcing can have significant economic value to the enterprise. Many strategic business drivers encourage learning organizations to outsource specific functions. A recent survey from Bersin & Associates looks at several of these business dr