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NCR: The Innovative Talent Factory
NCR Corp. has a long history in innovation, leadership and learning. In 1884, John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash registers. Patterson […]
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AOL’s Thomas Lokar: Accelerating Leadership and Learning in Line With Business Strategies
AOL has experienced a rebirth over the past three years, aided in no small part by the company’s learning and development organization and its leaders, Vice President of People Development and Talent Acquisition Thomas Lokar.
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Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency
The Prudential Financial slogan, ‘Growing and Protecting Your Wealth,’ parallels the company’s stance on learning. Prudential has created a learning and development strategy based on vendor partnerships and the formation of high-
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Corporations Have Trouble Assessing IT needs, BPO
It seems like information technology and related software programs have been a part of corporations’ daily routines for ages now. However, according to a new study, many enterprises are still stumped about how to use IT to positively impact business proce
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Ketchum Public Relations
Ketchum Public Relations, VP/Learning & Development, New York, NY The VP, L & D creates and implements learning strategies that directly impact Ketchum’s business goals; designs learning activities and processes and delivers w
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Globalization Shaping Creativity Training
As companies extend their reach overseas and workforces become increasingly diverse, the nature of employee training and development has started to change shape. According to a survey of 3,100 senior human resources executives by the Novations Group, a co
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Business Drivers for Real-Time Learning
rom the front line to the boardroom, there is a growing awareness among managers that significant productivity gains remain to be made in the area of human capital. Specifically, there is an increased focus by businesses to improve the quality of their wo
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Understanding Goal Alignment Models
Alignment: It’s the term that describes the continuous process of mobilizing enterprise resources to execute company objectives. For several years, organizations have grappled with how to align their most critical enterprise resource—the workforce. Thus f











