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e-Learning CrOp Circles
Does your organization have an e-learning CrOp Circle? No, I haven’t seen the new Hollywood movie “Signs.” I’m not talking about alien-created patterns in fields of wheat. What I mean is a circle of professional e-learning developers who are dedicated to
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Grant Thornton: Collaboration Is the Key
Working together is at the heart of collaboration, whether “together” means in the same office or just on the same planet (for now). When your company works with others for a living, as does the accounting, auditing and tax service firm Grant Thornton, co
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Vendors’ Financial Statements Affect Buying Decisions
It is well-known, and the issue has been discussed at length: The industry barometers are not indicating an improvement in the IT spending environment anytime soon. With that in mind, the health of a company’s balance sheet has, will and should be a diffe
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Collaborative Tools for e-Learning
When my colleague Padma Medury and I conducted a survey on collaborative technologies and groupware in 1990, little did we know the degree to which Web-based tools would reshape and elevate this field. We discovered conferencing and collaboration tools fo
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The Killer App for Managing Talent
“The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.” – Peter Drucker, “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”
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Front-Line Managers: Training’s Biggest Asset
In my last column, I discussed how every training department should establish itself as an investment, not an expense. Once this perspective is adopted, training programs need to align themselves with the organization’s best resources to guarantee success
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Enterprise Learning Forecast: Changes on the Landscape
We’ve all heard it before. The only constant in this world is change. In the marketplace of enterprise learning, we have adopted this as a mantra. Many corporate-learning pundits and corporate executives forecast huge shifts away from instructor-led train
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United States Postal Service: Delivering Workforce Development
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. –Inscription on the General Post Office, New York City The United States Postal Service has no official motto, but if it did, that oft-quoted saying would probably be it. At the very least, it’s…












