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The Need for ‘Evidence-Based Training’
In 1996, in an editorial published by the British Medical Journal, David Sackett, M.D., offered a simple definition of “evidence-based medicine” and urged his colleagues to adopt its tenets. Put simply, evidence-based medicine is the deliberate use of evi
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Want E-Learning Accepted? Show Them the ‘Real’ Money
If managers could demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) for e-learning, would that make a compelling case for the acceptance of e-learning by decision-makers? Financial projections alone may not be enough to satisfy a skeptical audience. To make those
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The CLO’s Path
Executives who make investment decisions around learning, whether they’re called “chief learning officer,” “vice president of learning and development” or some other title, come from diverse backgrounds. Many learning executives work their way up through
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Deutsche Bank: Building Global Learning
Deutsche Bank, a global firm with almost 70,000 employees, offers financial services in 74 countries, competing to be a leading global provider of financial solutions. The firm offers services in corporate banking and securities, transaction banking, asse
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Governing Learning & Development
Every other month, we administer a brief Web-based survey to CLO magazine’s Business Intelligence Board (BIB) on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that make up the diverse role of a senior learning executive. For this mo
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The Raymond Corp.: Financial Literacy Augments Sales Abilities
Like any company looking to revitalize its sales force, The Raymond Corp. first made a careful assessment of its marketplace. In the late ’90s, this leading provider of high-performance electric forklifts found that the focus of its customer base was chan
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HR Critical to Align Workforce Performance With Organizational Goals
The human resources function is critical to optimize workforce performance and connect learning with organizational goals and objectives in the manufacturing industry, according to a new PeopleSoft customer survey on human capital management (HCM).
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Why Is Outsourcing So Popular in the Enterprise?
Outsourcing can have significant economic value to the enterprise. Many strategic business drivers encourage learning organizations to outsource specific functions. A recent survey from Bersin & Associates looks at several of these business dr












