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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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U.S. Navy: Steering Strategy With Executive Development
In order to modernize various strategies within the organization, the Navy established a new position, executive learning officer (ELO), to initiate customized learning programs for senior naval leadership. For most of the Navy’s history, high-ranking officers were selected according to how well they operated their particular weapon system, whether it was a surface ship, submarine…
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Nektar Therapeutics: Collaborating in Compliance
Because the biomedical field is so heavily regulated, one of Nektar’s greatest challenges is keeping up with industry and government standards, which are often complex and frequently altered. To keep up, not only are company employees in training continually, but also the learning programs that they use are continually updated. “The content is modified nightly,…
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The Lean Enterprise: Combating Waste
No enterprise can rest easy in today’s economy—not if it expects to be around for the long haul. The astute enterprise scrambles for every advantage it can muster. Companies looking to control costs have increasingly turned to the principles of a “lean en
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Taking Simulations to the Next Level
Simulations are poised to be the next big thing in learning and development. According to industry research firm Gartner, 50 percent of enterprises will be using simulations to teach vital skills to their sales and customer support professionals by 2006.
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Fourth Shift: Lean and Learning
In 2002, like many technology companies, Fourth Shift, a product of SoftBrands, had gone through several rounds of layoffs. Even though fewer resources existed, the company still had to increase customer satisfaction and revenue, educate internal and exte
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Prince William County: Using E-Learning to Fulfill Development Plans
Following an overall budget reduction strategy that began in the early 1990s, Prince William County (PWC), Va., had to rebuild its training program almost from scratch. “Everybody across the country, at least in local government, dumped their training pro
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Educational Renewal Keeps Senior Executives Abreast of New Core Competencies
Business technology and best practices are changing far more quickly than executives can keep up. As a result, CEO’s are going back to school to stay abreast of new core competencies, such as Six Sigma and performance enhancement, to update and develop th
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Innovations in technology are forever transforming the learning and development industry. Management needs to continue to immerse themselves in these transformations in order to keep up with current trends and changes in competing companies.
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