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The Cycle of Excellence
Compensation administration in Pay-for-Performance organizations
Salary.com
March 31, 2008
The annual cycle of managing an organization’s expenditure on human capital is parceled into business processes that take place at annual intervals. Salary.com looks at each of these processes and the potential to provide value through automation as part of working within a pay-for-performance framework.
STATE OF THE GLOBAL TALENT NATION
SOFTSCAPE
March 13, 2008
This report addresses the top concerns facing HR professionals worldwide and outlines the steps to a resolution. In this valuable executive brief, you will learn: the top business concerns of organizations today (which are all related to HR), global trends that directly impact your human resources decisions, the top 10 business drivers for implementing HCM technology, a road map to help you successfully prepare to meet future goals.
TOP 10 STEPS TO MANAGING YOUR LEADERSHIP GAP
SOFTSCAPE
March 13, 2008
Whether you are responsible for Human Resources (HR) at a corporation or staffing a government agency, you are faced with the imminent need to identify, assess and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership at all levels. This white paper offers you additional insight into the business case for managing your leadership gap and the steps you can take to achieve success.
STAFF & CONTRACT INSTRUCTORS
Costs, Comparisons & Considerations for Strategic Decision Making
The Training Associates
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
Altiris Takes E-Learning Worldwide
GeoLearning provides single-source for locating
and registering for courses.
Altiris
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.
AVI Delivers Industry-Specific Certification Training
GeoExpress LMS supports unique learning programs in the audio visual industry.
Audio Visual Innovations, Inc.
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.
GeoLearning LMS Platform Helps Build “One Adecco” in North America
Situation Overview
Adecco
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.
Computer Associates Drives Performance Best Practices with Collaboration
GeoLearning provides global blended learning and collaboration
Computer Associates
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.
E-Learning Needs Assessment
GeoLearning
January 11, 2008
Purpose
There are four basic objectives for conducting an e-learning needs assessment:
- Isolate specific business challenges, problems and opportunities for which e-learning is a potential solution.
- Identify risks associated with pursuing and not pursuing e-learning.
- Determine risk management strategies that can be implemented.
- Consider possible e-learning configurations that represent potential solutions.
First Responders:
America’s Front Line for
Domestic Defense
GeaoLearning
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.
The Growth of SaaS and Best-of-Breed LMS
Chief Learning Officer magazine
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.
How to Write an RFP for e-Learning Services
Including a Customizable RFP Template
GeoLearning
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.
Enterprise Learning Technology: A New Breed of Solutions
Bersin & Associates
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.
True Software as a Service: A Litmus Test for Learning Technology Providers
GeoLearning
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.
Training for Results: A Blended Learning Approach
GeoLearning
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.
Utica National: Employee Performance Management Solution
GeoMaestro Provides Single Source of Contact for Assessment
Utica National Insurance Group
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.
Rapid Knowledge Transfer in Changing Times:
How the Pharmaceutical Sector Solves Communication Challenges with Virtual Classroom Solutions
Larstan Business Reports, Inc.
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.
The End of Business as Usual
The Internet as a Means for Rapid Product Rollout in Financial Services
WebEx
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.
Report on Trends in Organizational Practices of Synchronous e-Learning
The eLearning Guild
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.
Impacting Business with Online Training
Bersin & Associates
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.
Virtual Classroom Technology
Bersin & Associates
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.
Real Results:
The True Opportunity of Online Learning
WebEx
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.
Optimizing the Training Back Office to
Focus on Business
Performance
KnowledgePlanet
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.
Best Practices in Online Customer Training
Bersin & Associates
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.
KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL CUSTOM
ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Beeline
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.
The Convergence of Talent,
Performance and Learning Management
learn.com
Jan 01, 2007
Business Issues:
Employee Measurement not Aligned with Business Goals
Maintaining Key Talent and Knowledge Transfer
Learn.com is the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, providing a naturally holistic suite of solutions. For over a decade, Learn.com has been elevating the way organizations hire, develop, manage and deploy their most important asset, their people. The Learn.com family of award-winning solutions provides our clients of all sizes with the technology and knowledge transfer they need to stay ahead of the competition and convert critical information into revenue. Our clients have discovered that Learn.com takes the time to understand and address their needs, goals, and objectives. Learn.com’s solutions facilitate business goal development, managing an effective employee lifecycle and creating a central knowledge repository. Learn.com solutions may be installed on premise, delivered as a hosted service over the Internet, or deployed in
any combination.
Executive Search
Program Manager – OE / Talent Management
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems in El Segundo, California is currently seeking a Program Manager – OE / Talent Management.
Columnists:
May 2008
Dancing With the Stars
A famous consultant is coming to your organization to give “the big speech.”
May 2008
Beware Common Sense
One of the strongest admonitions pounded into young researchers is, “Don’t trust what common sense tells you.”
April 2008
When Business Declines, Focus on Alterations
Occasionally a casual incident or conversation suddenly will jolt me back to daily workplace realities and the pragmatic lessons learned without the scientific rigor I admire.
Dashboard
May 2008
Taking the Talent Pulse: What Drives High Potentials?
Star performers should never feel unchallenged or disenfranchised because they have plenty of other options waiting for them.
Application
May 2008
American Systems Employees Earn a Piece of the Pie
In today’s crowded marketplace, everyone’s trying to get a piece of the pie.
May 2008
American Diabetes Association: On a Mission to Improve Employee Health
The American Diabetes Association and its sister organization, Shaping America’s Health, have an organizational mission to help people live healthier, and they want that sentiment to extend to their employees.
Insight
May 2008
Graybar: Supporting a Long-Term View of Talent Management
Graybar has made a habit of promoting from within and has built a comprehensive talent management strategy to support it.
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