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Corporate Universities: What Works and What Doesn’t
Strengthening their human capital is one of the top issues facing chief executive officers, according to a recent survey of 500 CEOs conducted by The Economist Intelligence unit. In fact, as one senior executive from a large financial services firm said,
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Making Your LMS Dance
It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav
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The Emergence of Managed Learning Services
Educators have been using outside assistance to deliver learning programs on subjects where they lack expertise in one manner or another for as long as there have been teachers. However, in the past five or six years, technological advances and the wi
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Driving Greater Value From an LMS
Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted
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Report Shows LMS Market Growing Apace
If your company is one of the holdouts of joining the learning management system game, fear no more. You can now count your chips and play your hand with confidence. According to Josh Bersin, CEO of research and enterprise learning advisory firm Bersin &a
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Effective Learning Governance Drives Business Results
A growing number of enterprises are centralizing learning capabilities and building shared service centers to enhance their learning efficiency and effectiveness. According to a 2005 study from Bersin & Associates, areas where shared services
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Are You Measuring the Right Things?
There is a saying in business: What gets measured gets done. Organizations that effectively manage their measures achieve superior results. In all sectors, leaders use measures to drive organizational improvement and outperform their competitors. Howeve
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The Nexus of Learning: The Intersection of Formal and Informal Education
In the beginning, there was learning, and it was unstructured. From the primordial ooze of early man’s brain came the concept of on-the-job training.
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Trends and Tactics
We’ve recently been through another New Year celebration, and once again I’ve noticed the deceptively obvious: Unless there’s a major snowstorm overnight on Jan. 1, one year looks pretty much like the next.
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Scotiabank: Cashing In on a Community of Learning
Many companies embrace a centralized learning model to offer learning and development opportunities to their various employee populations. Scotiabank, which offers retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking services to millions of customers arou