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Digineer: Bringing Top-Notch Training to Technology Consulting
When technology consulting firm Digineer needed a new training plan, it didn’t settle for a standard program. Instead, it created Digineer University.
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Katrina Disaster Emphasizes Value of Training Technology
The Katrina hurricane disaster rocked the personal lives of many in the Southeast United States. It also threw a big spanner into business operations for workers, including those in the Louisiana Department of Revenue. Fortunately, the organization had al
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Building an Employer Brand through Investments in Learning
The brand of an organization can tell you something about its success in the market, financial strength, position in the industry and interesting products and services a company offers. A brand image also has an important meaning for people who consider changing jobs or who are joining the workforce out of college. As the talent…
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Winston & Strawn: Updating Tech Skills
It isn’t always easy to get senior leadership into corporate learning programs because of the difficulty carving time out of their busy schedules for training. For law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, which operates in dozens of practice areas ranging from litigation to lobbying, this presents a critical challenge for learning and development. Out of…
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Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
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Misinformation Management: Measuring Workforce Knowledge
Regardless of industry, the objective of education is to support the business operation. However, as businesses grow, many organizations track training milestones without tracking direct improvements to the business.
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Multi-Sourcing: Achieving Growth and Agility
The practice of outsourcing training is following well-established patterns in other areas, such as payroll, customer service and IT. So today, the question a business-savvy training executive should ask is not, "Do we outsource?&quot
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The Children’s Place: Customizing Vendor Products for New-Hire Orientation
At The Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc., the most important aspect is keeping customers happy. A leading specialty retailer of children’s merchandise for newborns to 10-year-olds, the company designs, manufactures and sells clothing and toys in 808 The Children’s Place stores and 316 Disney Stores in North America, as well as online. The company’s mission…












