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A Month of Milestones
As I write this month’s column, I am sitting on an airplane after wrapping up my third business trip in the past four weeks. It is mid-June, and I know you will not be reading this until some time in September. (This should give you some idea of a magazin
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Reorganization: The Role and Agenda of the CLO
In many boardrooms and senior staff meetings, a grim ritual is taking place. Companies are going through the process of organizational reformulation, reconfiguration or reengineering. It is often a process of reverse-birth, undoing size and holdings to be
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Tamar Elkeles: Technology and Training at QUALCOMM
To the uninitiated or unfamiliar, life at QUALCOMM might be predicted as boring. A high-tech communications company populated by engineers working with chips and circuits and wireless equipment may be cutting-edge, but all that raises a stereotypic image
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Outsourcing Enterprise Learning
The business process outsourcing (BPO) market has been a reality for decades. Many of the core functions of a corporation, such as information technology, retirement and payroll processing, have been outsourced. Now, the issue on the minds of chief learni
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Banner Health: Motivating Employees to Complete Online Training
Many organizations have already implemented online training in their corporate learning programs, and some even have entire departments devoted exclusively to e-learning. Unfortunately, many of these organizations have libraries full of courses that emplo
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E-Learning in the Government Market
Public- and private-sector organizations have much to learn from each other when it comes to learning management strategies. While public-sector organizations have embraced automation of training and competencies much faster than private-sector companies,
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Accenture: Nearly Half of Middle Managers Seek New Jobs
According to a new survey released by Accenture, nearly half of middle managers in the United States are either looking or plan to look for another job.
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Simulations: What Do You Need to Know?
Have you been hearing all of the talk about simulations? It seems that the focus of every learning analyst and recent industry magazine article is software simulation. There are simulation shootouts at conference events, white papers from one e-learning g
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American Standard: Tracking the Bottom-Line Impact
American Standard may be best known for its white porcelain toilets, but the Piscataway, N.J.-based corporation encompasses far more. In fact, plumbing products account for barely a quarter of the annual revenues of American Standard Cos., an organization
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Xerox Global Services Drives Quality With Six Sigma
Corporate learning serves the organization best when it ties in with company-wide goals and initiatives.