Webinar
Immersive 3-D, Multi-User Virtual Environments and Simulation-Based Learning
May 22nd, 2008
Breakfast Club
Learning's Value to the Enterprise
Thu September 4th, 2008 7:30 am
AMA Executive Conference Center, New York, New York
CLO Symposium
Measuring Success:
Learning’s Positive Impact on Business
September 24th — 26th, 2008
Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California
CLO Symposium
Measuring Success:
Learning’s Positive Impact on Business
September 24th — 26th, 2008
Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California
March 31, 2008
Increasingly, organizations look to raise the bar for performance, accelerate the development of leaders and ensure employees can implement new work processes and become drivers of continuous innovation and change.
March 6, 2008
A Major Revision of Industry Whitepaper with Broader Scope and Important New Conclusions on How to Significantly Reduce Costs and Risks, and Increase Sales
February 26, 2008
Learning executives from 10 large enterprises convened in August 2007 at Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center in Redmond, Wash., to discuss critical issues in enterprise learning and share best practices.
February 26, 2008
Learning executives from 11 large organizations in the financial services, insurance and health care industries convened in August 2007 at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center to discuss critical issues in enterprise learning and share best practices. Hosted by Chief Learning Officer magazine and underwritten by NIIT CognitiveArts, the Think Tank was a wide-ranging but focused discussion on dozens of important topics.
February 26, 2008
The most successful companies outperform their competition by investing in their most important asset — their people. To help companies of all sizes achieve this goal, Saba Learning OnDemand FastTrack provides a comprehensive solution at an affordable cost.
February 26, 2008
Keeping groups and individuals focused and aligned with company strategy enables organizations to execute to their fullest potential. To help companies of all sizes reach this potential, Saba Performance OnDemand FastTrack provides a comprehensive solution at an affordable cost.
February 26, 2008
Saba’s solutions support all different deployment models – on-premise, hosting or OnDemand (software-as-a-service). The total cost of ownership (TCO) varies for each customer depending on the customer’s current IT infrastructure.
February 26, 2008
Overview
Think about an athlete, a team, an engine, a rock climber, a sales professional, an oil rig, an automobile and a performer. Think about the workforce in an organization or the organization itself.
January 11, 2008
Altiris, a leading provider of service-oriented management software that allows IT organizations to manage, secure and service IT assets, was looking for a learning management solution to implement for a training commerce initiative targeting its clients’ end users.
January 11, 2008
Audio Visual Innovations, Inc. (AVI), the largest privately held, full-service audio visual products and services provider in the United States, was seeking an easy-to-use learning management solution to centralize all company training and reporting. AVI wanted to move training delivery online to support learning and certifications for its nationally dispersed workforce.
January 11, 2008
Adecco Group North America, a part of Adecco SA, the world’s largest staffing firm, connects more people to more jobs than anyone else in the world. Adecco helps over 700,000 people find work every day through its network of 150,000 client companies. Adecco’s team of 33,000 colleagues worldwide spans expertise across virtually every sector and region. This Global Fortune 500 company manages a workforce of more than 4 million individuals each year and is the third largest employer in North America after Wal-Mart and the U.S. Postal Service.
January 11, 2008
Computer Associates (CA), a global IT management software provider, was looking for a robust and scalable enterprise-wide collaboration and knowledge sharing platform that could be integrated with its existing systems and enable the company’s broad learning audience of 50,000 employees and customers to effectively collaborate, capture and share information.
January 11, 2008
Purpose
There are four basic objectives for conducting an e-learning needs assessment:
January 11, 2008
The Situation
Prior to the tragedy of 9/11, few outside of the emergency services field were familiar with the term “First Responder.” By its pure definition, any citizen may find himself or herself a first responder to an emergency.
January 11, 2008
Although technologyenabled learning has been around for a while, enterprisewide learning technology has become increasingly complex and more strategic over the last few years. New trends in online learning and an increasing emphasis on learning’s impact on business results have spurred the development of new learning management systems (LMS) and an increasingly dizzying array of choices.
January 11, 2008
What is an RFP?
How can you narrow the list of possibilities before contracting for services? How can you ensure that your organization’s business needs will be met? One solution is to write and distribute a Request for Proposal (RFP) in the marketplace.
January 11, 2008
Over the last three years, enterprise learning technology has become more complex and strategic than ever. New forms of online learning, coupled with the convergence between learning and talent management, have created tremendous change and opportunity for enterprise learning technology. This bulletin summarizes these recent trends, and Bersin & Associates recommendations for research members.
January 11, 2008
Software as a Service (SaaS) is quickly catching on as the preferred way for organizations to acquire access to business applications because it eliminates all the headaches, hassles and risks associated with traditional software. As you might expect, many learning software providers are trying to jump on the SaaS bandwagon by either retro-fitting their traditional LMS software for delivery over the Internet, or merely claiming to be SaaS by attaching monikers like “on demand,” “hosted” or “ASP (Application Service Provider)” to their product names.
January 11, 2008
Introduction
Elliot Masie says, “The question is no longer whether to do blended learning; it’s how to do it.” In the following pages, we’ll explore why blended learning is important, introduce you to a thinking framework for it and discuss criteria for selecting technologies to support it.
January 11, 2008
Utica National Insurance Group, a medium-sized insurance company that focuses on the small business market, was seeking a solution for pre-hire assessments and performance management. Initially, the HR organization wanted to build an in-house assessment tool. But as they explored the complexities of the application and looked at vendors’ products, the company decided that it needed a learning management system.
November 28, 2007
In business, as in life, the only constant is change. Pharmaceutical company managers experience incessant change inside and outside of their corporate perimeters, and this change affects the way they go to market, manage their operations, or comply with new regulatory mandates.
November 28, 2007
In today’s global and hyperlinked economy, people are discovering and inventing new methods to share relevant information with lightning speed. As the Internet pervades all aspects of communications, markets are getting smarter with each passing day — smarter than the ability of many people to keep up.
November 28, 2007
According to the latest Gartner “Learning Hype Cycle,” virtual classrooms and collaboration tools are reaching a significant point of market adoption and product maturity. This finding is well supported by the results of our recent survey on Trends in Organizational Practice of Synchronous e-Learning.
November 28, 2007
When companies initially started evaluating the benefits of moving training online, the key consideration and value proposition were the reduction of travel expenses and other related costs (such as facilities, instructor, and cancellation and materials fees). This paper explores how companies are using technology-based learning to support business initiatives.
October 29, 2007
This white paper examines the cost of printing in larger organizations in the U.S. It reviews trends in the printing industry and best practices in print procurement. The paper examines how the “smart sourcing” of print is the best print procurement practice for large buyers of print. It also reviews the Mimeo.com model and how it provides value to buyers of complex documents.
October 26, 2007
IN THIS CASE STUDY
Virtual classroom technology is reaching mainstream acceptance
as a platform for rapid and blended learning. As a result, large
and mid-size enterprises are beginning to offer virtual instructorled
training (vILT) to a wider audience of learners. Hitachi Data
Systems, a leader in the data storage market, has established
a framework for developing and delivering vILT, including
process flow, best practices, and instructional guidelines and
recommendations. Virtual classroom technology is delivered via a
fully hosted, on-demand, software-as-a-service application.
October 26, 2007
With the advent of online training in the late 1990s, many companies viewed the opportunity to incorporate e-learning into their training mix as simply leveraging technology to reduce costs. Online classrooms, it was rightly reasoned, allowed organizations to save travel time and money associated with live, in-person classrooms, replacing it with trainers delivering e-learning to internal and external audiences remotely from the desktop.
October 26, 2007
IDC OPI NION
A renewed sense of optimism associated with surging profits and revenue growth is
beginning to drive investments in workforce development at many organizations.
However, fiscal responsibility and recent cost-cutting measures are still fresh in the
minds of senior training and development executives. These professionals are also
cognizant of the need to invest their staff and resources in initiatives that drive key
performance indicators (e.g., time to market, customer retention) for the businesses
they support. This IDC benchmarking study suggests that as these professionals
attempt to align their personnel and operations with the needs of their enterprises,
they have an opportunity to streamline the time and money spent on administrative
processes. To this end, IDC believes that these training and development executives
should investigate sourcing models that enable access to shared infrastructure and
services.
October 26, 2007
According to our research, customer training and for-profit education is a $3-4 billion market today, consisting of corporate customer education, for-profit training and education, and degree-granting for-profit education. It exists within the context of the overall $85 Billion corporate training market and it is being impacted heavily by trends toward e-learning and online delivery approaches.
July 29, 2007
During the five years that I’ve been the eLearning Director for a custom eLearning development company, I’ve spoken to a myriad of people looking to develop eLearning and have made hundreds of presentations demonstrating our capabilities as an eLearning provider. The expertise and development experience of those I’ve spoken with vary widely. Some people are brand-new to eLearning having never developed a course while others have extensive experience in this arena. As their expertise varies, so does the quality of their development experiences. Some have been positive, others have been negative. Regardless of the starting point, the article that follows discusses some key factors that must be addressed in order to ensure a successful eLearning development project.
Staff VP, Corporate Learning Solutions (Chief Learning Officer)-31745
03/24/2008
WellPoint is the nation's leading health benefits company. At WellPoint, we are dedicated to improving the lives of the people we serve and the health of our communities. WellPoint strives to be the most trusted choice for consumers and a leader in affordable quality care with an unyielding commitment to meeting the needs of our diverse customers.
May 2008
Building Exceptional Virtual Learning Teams
In today’s new workplace, virtual teams are the status quo. How can you build an exceptional team in a cross-functional, virtual work environment?
May 2008
Secret Fears of Successful CLOs
We all churn to get things done and strive to look good while doing it. Unfortunately, we often choose to hide our anxieties, even from ourselves.
May 2008
The Importance of Form Factor
I recently had an experience in which I learned a valuable lesson about the importance of form factor, or the literal form learning takes when consumed.
May 2008
Changes in Learning and Development Staffing
Learning executives surround themselves with talented professionals to accomplish their goals. This month, members of the CLO Business Intelligence Board share their thoughts about staffing trends.
May 2008
Coaching His Way to the Top
Jeff Lamb, senior vice president and chief people and administration officer at Southwest Airlines, is a real team player. He has translated his unique brand of leadership into a development program for more than 32,000 employees nationwide.
May 2008
Mission Safety: Virtual Learning Helps Protect U.S. Marines