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Governing Learning & Development
Every other month, we administer a brief Web-based survey to CLO magazine’s Business Intelligence Board (BIB) on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that make up the diverse role of a senior learning executive. For this mo
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Why Does Learning Matter?
Today, executive management understands that organizational learning enables organizational performance. It enables agility, change and growth. Because it is the centerpiece of the strategy to recruit, retain and leverage the most talented people, learnin
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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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E-Learning Lessons: Compliance and IT Innovation
As the IT market gets more comfortable with the idea of recovery, speculations abound regarding “the next big thing” and which market segments stand to gain the most when IT spending returns to a more fluid pace. While some markets waned or simply disa
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Using Models to Manage Strategic Learning Investments
Gone are the days of technologies looking for a problem to solve. Today, technology investments must be strategic and driven by an organization’s business focus. However, not everyone fully realizes the strategic importance of technology investments
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The Strategic Benefits of Learning Outsourcing
Outsourcing key business functions is a common strategy for information technology and human resources departments. Having other companies do the administrative work or host the technology allows these departments to free up their resources to devote more
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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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Capturing Learning Opportunities
Businesspeople often ask us what it takes to survive and profit in competitive and volatile market conditions. The common solution is to offer improved products and services. This is partially true. However, improvements are only the expected results, not
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Outsourcing Learning: Choosing the Model for Success
With increasing pressures to provide more return on investment for their training initiatives, many organizations are taking a more strategic view of vendor relationships and outsourcing. Synonymous primarily with software services and back-office process








