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Factiva: Enabling Education On Demand
Factiva delivers thousands of wire service stories, newspaper articles, business publications and other documents to the global corporate business community. The company’s products and services help clients integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence and leverage content in the knowledge management function. With 750 employees in 32 countries and…
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Business Process Outsourcing: Pros & Cons
Recent statistics forecast that the learning outsourcing market will grow to $20 billion over the next few years, but what does that mean for training and development? The pros and cons must be considered before taking the leap.
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SwedishAmerican Health System: Importing Learning Processes
SwedishAmerican Health System, a nonprofit organization with 15 facilities in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, has to educate about 3,000 employees on new techniques and products in the field of medicine, changing government and industry relations, and company policies and procedures. The health care company’s structure and available resources for workforce learning present further challenges…
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Learning Applications: Education in Context
Knowledge drives business performance, and linking mission-critical information to each employee’s role and work is essential to success. The technology is available, but the model must adapt to changing needs.
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Wyndham International: Transforming Employees With Personalized Learning
In the hotel business, success hinges on an organization’s ability to provide quality service and ensure that each guest’s needs are met in a timely and courteous fashion. Wyndham International has taken that tenet to a new level by applying it to employee learning. With 22,000 employees to educate in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and…
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Creating Value: It’s All About People
Creating data warehouses with expensive technology is not necessarily the best way to provide knowledge management.
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Benefiting From Learning Objects
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest professional science education organization in the world, recently launched a learning content management system (LCMS) that will enhance professional development options for K-12 science educa
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LMSs: Bells, Whistles and a Few Flat Notes
If you’ve ever wondered just what you were thinking when you purchased your company’s current learning management system (LMS), or perhaps thanked your lucky stars that you made the right choice, you’re not alone.












