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Knowledge Sharing for the Mobile Workforce
The global workforce is increasingly mobile, relying on cell phones and PDAs to get the job done both in the office and on the road. CLOs need not ask whether mobile learning should be part of their strategy, but how.
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SCI: Dignity and Service Start With Learning
Service Corporation International (SCI) is the largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services in North America. More than 20,000 employees across North America compassionately help more than 600,000 families every year through very difficult times in their lives. Pursuing a best-in-class workforce through education helps SCI deliver dignified service. “We’re in the people business,”…
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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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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…
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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 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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Finding the Client-Vendor Balance
When outsourcing learning content and solutions, a transparent process ensures a successful relationship.
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Business Process Outsourcing: Pros & Cons
Recent statistics forecast that the learning outsourcing market will grow to $20 billion over the next few years, but what does that mean for training and development? The pros and cons must be considered before taking the leap.







