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ThoughtWorks: Matching Content to Employee Needs
ThoughtWorks Inc., an IT professional services firm offering application development and advanced systems integration, found significant value in its newly formed ThoughtWorks University, which includes a comprehensive new-hire onboarding program that takes place over several months in Bangalore, India. In addition to providing the essential background and skill development for new ThoughtWorks employees, the Bangalore…
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E-Learning Strategy: Repurposing Content
Learning organizations that employ e-learning delivery methods often must repurpose content to be used in multiple ways by multiple audiences. Developing a strategy will help reap benefits and drive high-quality learning.
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Enterprise Excellence: Transforming Learning Into Knowledge
Harnessing the knowledge of the workforce can provide insight into trends, innovations and the barriers to top performance. Using employee intelligence, smart CLOs can scan the marketplace and help hone business strategy.
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British Telecom: Leadership Drives Enterprise Excellence
British Telecom, a European provider of telecommunication services, serves 29 million business and residential customers in the United Kingdom alone. The past three years have represented a tumultuous time for British Telecom, as organizational governance, regulatory initiatives and technological innovation have completely driven the restructuring of the organization. Paul Reynolds, CEO of British Telecom Wholesale,…
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E & J Gallo: Cultivating Change
E&J Gallo Winery, headquartered in Modesto, Calif., is a leading producer of wines and beverages. More than 5,000 employees work globally to produce, distribute and market the company’s wines. When it came time to plan for an implementation of a PeopleSoft HR Information System, HR and IT leaders worked together to plan for the change.…
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Podcasting: Broadcast Your Organization’s Knowledge
Recent advances in information technology, such as podcasting, will profoundly impact knowledge management, corporate training and in-house communication. Just as blogging gave us all a personal printing press, podcasting gives us an inexpensive, personal broadcasting studio. Subscribers can download short radio shows to their iPods or MP3 players. Microsoft recently threw its weight behind the…
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Emerging Technologies for Training Delivery
As technology evolves, so do the ways people work and learn. Mobile learning applications can help increase workforce productivity through just-in-time learning that capitalizes on downtime.
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What’s Your Ideal Learning Organization?
If you were unconstrained by time, money or a lack of resources, what would your ideal learning organization look like? What processes and procedures would you implement if you had the juice to do exactly what you wanted to bring stellar learning and deve












