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Fred Harburg–Connecting Motorola with Learning
If you have the chance to read Fred Harburg�s resume, you�ll find a rather impressive listing of positions. Prior to becoming chief learning officer and president of Motorola University, Harburg�s past boasts organizations like IBM, Saturn, Disney,
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3Dlabs: Accelerating Market Education
3Dlabs Inc., a leading supplier of graphics accelerator solutions to a broad range of professionals including the computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC) and visual simulation markets, was looking to outfit key business groups such as
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Amplifon: Boosting Sales Force Training
Amplifon Group, a large, multinational company specializing in the manufacturing and selling of medical devices with a primary focus on hearing aids, employs approximately 2,750 people worldwide and continues to expand. Amplifon’s assembly operations and
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Education Plus: Online Education Models
Read any article on the current state of academics, and you’ll find stories about how online learning is revolutionizing the practice of higher education, whether for better or for worse. On the one hand, students and institutions tout the convenience of
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Corporate Universities: A Powerful Model for Learning
Corporate universities were first created in the late 1980s as an enhancement to traditional training departments.
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SAFECO’s Aggressive Management Performance Initiative
Seattle-based SAFECO provides insurance and related financial products to individuals and businesses throughout the world. A Fortune 500 company, SAFECO provides products through more than 17,000 independent agents and financial advisors throughout the wo
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Web Resources
ROI Calculators That Are Really Cost-Savings Calculators: MediaPro Inc.: www.mediapro.com/html/resources/roi.html Intellinex: www.intellinex.com/update/flash/index.htm ROI Web Sites and Articles: ASTD Evaluation/ROI Community: www.astd.org/virtual_community/comm_evaluation/comm_top_page.html E-Learning Centre: www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/costs.htm InternetWeek.com “IT ROI Metrics Fall Into Four Groups” by John Berry www.internetweek.com/netresults01/net071601-3.htm NCVER “Does Training Pay? Evidence from Australian Enterprises” by Richard Blandy, et al www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nr8010.pdf…
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An Aerospace Case Study
Considering the formula presented here on aggregating ROI and payback data, you can probably see this is good information at an individual level. But how do you generalize these kinds of data to a larger population to use it to defend your budget?












