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Strategic Collaboration: The New Key to Growth
With profit pressure on, companies must innovate to maintain customer loyalty. Strategic collaboration is an innovative business strategy that may provide relief.
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The Value of Human Capital: What Logic and Intuition Tell Us
There is a wealth of anecdotal and intuitive evidence to support the value of human capital and its contribution to business results. In today’s business environment, people truly are the most important asset.
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Invest on the Top of the Wave
Thanks to strong economic growth in 2004 and 2005, most organizations have opened up their learning budgets. However, history has shown us that waves of strong economic growth crest and ebb. Strategic leaders of learning organizations should act now to invest in capabilities that can deliver learning critical to the long-term competitiveness and survival of…
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Underwriters Laboratories: Global Education Via the Web
Millions of people around the world have somehow come into contact with Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), an independent, nonprofit organization focused on product-safety testing and certification, but many of them probably weren’t even aware of it. The UL mark, which verifies that a product complies with the company’s safety standards, appeared on about 19 billion…
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Usability Testing for E-Learning
E-learning’s effectiveness hinges on many factors, and testing usability up front helps ensure its value. An expanded definition of usability, design principles and targeted tests help develop engaging courses.
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Caterpillar: Measuring Learning for Process Improvement
With some 80,000 employees around the world, and nearly half of its workforce outside of the United States, Caterpillar Inc. has a hand in construction, mining, energy and forestry industries. The company spends a significant portion of its annual learning budget working to ensure that the learning it provides is relevant and appropriate. “We’re doing…
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Productive Procedures to Overcome Performance Impediments
To meet productivity goals, learning and development components must be available at all levels of the business. Organization, written procedures and a learning culture help boost productivity and the bottom line.
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E-Learning: Use it Wisely
E-learning has become an accepted educational tool due to its quickness, cost-effectiveness and reach. To use it wisely, learn the four basic areas where e-learning excels.












