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U.S. Navy and EDS: A Military-Civilian Training Partnership
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is an enterprise-wide computer network that can connect more than 360,000 Sailors, Marines and civilian employees of the Department of the Navy at more than 300 bases in the Unites States as well as at several oversea
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Capturing Learning Opportunities
Businesspeople often ask us what it takes to survive and profit in competitive and volatile market conditions. The common solution is to offer improved products and services. This is partially true. However, improvements are only the expected results, not
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Training: An Effective Employee Retention Strategy
Things may be looking up on the economic horizon, but organizations are still watching their budgets. For many of these companies, high employee turnover is an issue for the HR department, not the finance team.
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Business-Based Learning: Methods to Ensure Profitable Programs
The basic question, ‘So, how do training activities become profitable?’ does not have an easy answer. Some folks try to throw technology at difficult situations. But, poorly executed technology solutions will only worsen the environment.
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Outsourcing Learning: Choosing the Model for Success
With increasing pressures to provide more return on investment for their training initiatives, many organizations are taking a more strategic view of vendor relationships and outsourcing. Synonymous primarily with software services and back-office process
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Diversity Training and Microinequities: Ensuring All Voices Are Valued
Imagine you’re on a project team, working on upgrading the organization’s technology infrastructure. In meetings, you find you are often interrupted—you feel your voice isn’t heard. You receive an e-mail about the project, and notice you’ve been left off
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Jim LaRocco: Blazing a Path to Learning Success
When it comes to enterprise learning, most companies are as concerned with return on investment as they are with the quality of the training they provide. And the bottom line is: Are employees better able to do their jobs after a training program? Are the
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Cutting Outsourcing Costs Through Effective Skills Management
Contractors have always cost more than the equivalent full-time staff. In the employer’s mind, this higher cost is mitigated by the accompanying benefits. Contractors are short-term employees, an expensive resource for dealing with peak demand that can be












