Kellye Whitney
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Centralizing Back-Office Functions Means More Money for Learning
Outsourcing corporate back-office functions means significant bottom-line savings in learning. The back office involves the set of services that can be centralized into a shared-service model and done in a repeated fashion.
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Kathy Sutter: Creating a Balanced Toolkit for Learning
Office Depot offers endless rows of colorful pens, folders and gadgets designed to make working easier, more organized and efficient. A former schoolteacher for grades 4-8, Kathy Sutter, vice president of leadership development and global learning for Off
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Does Your Enterprise Need a Chief Change Officer?
As a learning executive, you know the importance of the chief learning officer (CLO) to an organization. But according to Randy Kesterson, CEO and founding executive director of The Society for Leadership of Change,” organizations may need a chief change
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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
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Think Like a Pilot to Remedy Performance Issues in the Enterprise
The Institute of Medicine estimates that between 45,000 and 98,000 patients die every year as a result of medical mistakes in hospitals. That number includes instruments accidentally left inside patients on the operating table. Imagine if surgeons and doc
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Chief Learning Officer, First Citizens Bank
This position directly manages the delivery of learning solutions for the organization. To accomplish this, the incumbent continually assesses the need for learning solutions as dictated by corporate goals and initiatives and ensures proactive delivery of
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Head/Director, Health Plan Institute
At approximately $25 billion in revenues and 136,000 employees nationwide, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals (KFHP/H) is America’s largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization.
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Kevin Wilde: Providing Food for Thought at General Mills
If you work with kiddie cereals and yogurt for a living, it pays to have a sense of humor and a sweet tooth. If you’re responsible for educating 27,000 employees worldwide, it also pays to have a flexible attitude and a committed plan for training and de
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Learning Leaders Collaborate Through LearnShare
Chief learning officers and other learning leaders know the value of sharing knowledge and best practices—it’s a large part of what they enable their organizations to do.