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Bell Canada’s Mary O’Hara Connects the Workforce to Learning
Mary O’Hara, vice president of people development for Bell Canada, takes a holistic approach to the learning curve for Canada’s largest communications company. Pride, trust, intuition and more lead to performance excellence.
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What Gets Measured, Gets Better: The Application of Learning Metrics
In the end, what gets measured gets better, but is learning formally measured? How? This month’s research looks at the metrics used to assess the effect of learning on employee and overall business performance.
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Unhappy Execs, Retention Issues Plague Organizations
The anticipated, and potentially huge, skilled-workforce shortage that may appear as baby boomers approach retirement age is a hot topic among senior management these days. A recent survey by ExecuNet reveals that many executives not in line for retiremen
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Avaya: Outsourcing for Business Results
When Avaya—a global leader in business communications software, systems and services—prepared to embark on an aggressive schedule of new product launches, a key success factor was making training programs immediately available to help customers promptly realize efficiency, performance and business benefits. It became clear, however, that Avaya’s geographically fragmented learning organization was not positioned to…
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Learning BPO: Overcoming the Misconceptions
Learning business process outsourcing (BPO) services are now officially the most robust segment of the corporate training field. It’s easy to understand why. Learning BPO (also known as training outsourcing) has become the logical solution for companies seeking to move from fixed to variable costs, and to shed learning functions that are not core to…
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The Personal Side of Outsourcing
When companies transfer all or part of their learning functions to an outsourcing provider, change ripples through both organizations, especially the people whose jobs are redefined. Guido Minaya—who until June 2001 was the director of learning services for Avaya’s Caribbean and Latin America region, with a staff of about two dozen—recalls his initial reaction to…
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Learning Business Process Outsourcing and the Journey to High Performance
What’s on the minds of learning executives today? An exclusive Accenture Learning research study has found that a single, common goal dominates the learning field today: leveraging the learning function to make a business impact and achieve high performance. Corporations and governments alike have high expectations for their learning organizations today. As companies focus on…
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Achieving Business Results With Learning Outsourcing
Overview Learning Business Process Outsourcing and the Journey to High Performance Feature Breaking Through to High Performance: Unleashing the Power of Learning BPOHarry H. Brakeley Feature The Personal Side of Outsourcing Brian Summerfield Case StudyA.G. Edwards: Learning and IT TransformationKellye Whitney Case StudySun Microsystems: Improving Customer Satisfaction Through Learning Outsourcing Kellye Whitney Case StudyAvaya: Outsourcing…
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Breaking Through to High Performance: Unleashing the Power of Learning BPO
Organizations increasingly seek trusted collaborators to help them achieve high performance through their learning function. The greatest opportunities, especially for businesses, will come from total enterprise learning outsourcing strategies that have the potential to transform a company—supporting growth, innovation and competitive differentiation. Learning Strategies That Drive Growth Around the globe, executives from every industry are…
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A.G. Edwards: Learning & IT Transformation
When A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. began a period of IT transformation—developing the new technological capabilities required for the company to grow and prosper in the coming years—the company realized that reskilling its IT workforce would be a key ingredient to overall success. Because of the scope of the work and the strategic importance of…






