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Australian Pharmaceutical Industries: Transformation Through Blended Learning
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API), nearly 100 years old, has gone through countless changes over the years. From its roots as a chemist cooperative, API has grown to become a national pharmacy distribution network with chains of pharmacies, wareh
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Learning Trends to Watch in 2006
As we enter 2006, how will our priorities change? Here are four trends to watch. Delivery for the ’Net Generation Today’s college students, dubbed the ’Net generation, born between 1980 and 1994, will be entering the workplace in a few years.
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Nano-Learning: Miniaturization of Design
I am a nano-learner. What does that mean? Each day, I learn several things in small chunks. Really small chunks. A 90-second conversation with an expert triggers a huge “a-ha.” A few moments concentrating on learning how something works leads to a new mic
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InterContinental Hotels Group: In This Lobby, Learning and Performance Link
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has more than 3,600 hotels with more than a half-million guest rooms in almost 100 countries and territories. Each year some 120 million people stay at InterContinental Hotels Group brands, including Crown Plaza Hotels
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LandAmerica: Selling a New Learning Structure
About five years ago, LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. changed its historically franchise-based operations style and molded its decentralized structure into a centralized, streamlined corporate entity with standardized processes and procedures.
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Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006
Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr
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Leveraging Technology for Improved Sales Performance
How can you measure the impact of technology and training on business, and more particularly, the sales function? The past 10 years have introduced e-mail, Web meetings and customer relationship […]
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A Strategy for Training Materials Selection
How should you, the decision-maker, choose training materials for your organization? This question gives rise to an old dilemma: Odds are you don’t know the subject matter, and even if you do, you probably don’t have the time to carefully evaluate the mat