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Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture
Four years ago, a South Dakota-based health care organization developed a partnership with a local university to offer an online nursing degree program for its employees. Around the same time, an Illinois manufacturer brought a local university on-site to
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Why Training Spending Levels Don’t Matter Anymore
Training expenditure is a metric still used by many human resources and training professionals, as well as some market evaluators, to measure the value that enterprises place on education and training. However, it is known that training expenditure per person is not an indicator of: Access to training for employees. The quality of the training.…
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The Internal Revenue Service: Counting on Learning
With around 100,000 permanent and 20,000 seasonal employees, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a branch of the Department of Treasury, interacts with more Americans than any other public or private institution. In 2002, the IRS processed almost 227 mill
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Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company: Ensuring Educated Employees
In business for 140 years, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company (FFIC) provides business insurance for specific industries, including marine, entertainment, manufacturing and real estate, and personal insurance to protect the homes and assets of families and
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The Vital CLO: Accountability to the Enterprise and Beyond
In many organizations, CLOs have the keys to the kingdom: Having earned a seat at the big table, they contribute on a daily basis to the organization’s development, as an active partner in advancing the enterprise. In other organizations, things are … different. No matter how crucial the CLO’s work is to the enterprise, some…
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Working With Vendors: Equipping Corporate Educators
When a CLO invests in a vendor, the consequences involve more than acquiring a product’s technical capabilities. The CLO is also buying into a set of multi-year relationships that may drive future strategic and tactical choices in areas as diverse as cont
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M-Learning: The Next Wave for Training and Development
Mobile devices and wireless networks are booming. According to Gartner Inc., more than 50 percent of professional notebooks will have wireless LAN (WLAN) capability by the end of 2004. In the same time period, Gartner says that through WLAN hot spots, tra
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Are Your Top Leaders Battling to Build Energy?
Although the economy may be showing signs of recovery, senior leaders are just beginning to feel some of the repercussions of the economic downturn, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Business School and eePulse Inc., which delivers












