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Century 21: Bringing Learning Home

Tim Sosbe 8/22/02

Managing training at a large corporation like Century 21 is no small challenge. With about 88,000 agents and 4,400 brokers dispersed across 30 countries, the paperwork alone stacks up like a mortgage application. But a mission is a mission, and at Century

Technology - Training and Technology: Methods That Work in a Global Enterprise

Martin Bean 8/25/02

As chief learning officers, you are charted with cost-effectively managing training and ensuring knowledge transfer through your initiatives. In the past couple of years, you may have been caught in the e-learning boom and quite possibly have been burned.

Environment - The CLO's Role: Balancing the Learning Mix in Outsourced Environments

Steve Lynch 8/25/02

The State of e-Learning

Kevin Kruse 8/25/02

Falling stock prices, failed LMS implementations, poor course completion rates, slashed corporate budgets. In the face of all that, will e-learning be remembered as nothing more than a late salvo in the dot-bomb campaign?

Is Sales and Marketing e-Learning Giving You Customer ROI?

Jennifer Bulka and Beatrice Blatteis 9/2/02

In 1999, PurchasePro spent a small fortune on instructor-led training (ILT) for sales, customer service, vendors and clients. They knew that e-learning suited their product well, yet e-learning wasn't ready for (Web) primetime. ILT was still more valuable

Front-Line Managers: Training's Biggest Asset

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

In my last column, I discussed how every training department should establish itself as an investment, not an expense. Once this perspective is adopted, training programs need to align themselves with the organization’s best resources to guarantee success

How Can the Classroom Save Your E-Learning Programs?

Clomedia.com Editor 1/6/03

As you could see from reading the premier issue of this publication, e-learning is hot. Everyone’s looking to it as the next great training frontier, with good reason. Unlike other training technologies and methodologies that have entered the fray over th

Assessing Learning Management Systems

Clomedia.com Editor 12/11/02

Although e-learning got off to a shaky start in the late 1990s, industry analysts are now bullish about the enabling technologies, notably enterprise learning management systems (LMSs), both in terms of growing adoption rates and quick return on investmen

Evaluating E-Learning: A Lesson From Pharmaceuticals

Kevin Kruse 3/4/03

“You should be shot,” declared Bob. My presentation was on how to sell e-learning to upper management, and the real-world case study I presented emphasized some dramatic, multimillion dollar cost savings. “E-learning should not be about cost savings,” Bob

Whirlpool: Innovation and Organizational Learning

Margaret Driscoll, Ph.D. 3/4/03

Three years ago, Whirlpool Corp. launched a global innovation initiative to differentiate itself from its competitors by delivering unique products and solutions to make customers’ lives easier. This initiative was far from simple sloganeering. The initia

The Home Depot: Building Continuing Education

Tim Sosbe 3/4/03

As the world’s largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot is certainly no stranger to the concept of construction. The 1,504 Home Depot stores throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico (including the Expo Design Center brand) dai

Using E-Learning to Meet HIPAA Requirements

Emily Hollis 4/16/03

As of Monday, April 14, 2003, entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 must be compliant with the Privacy Rule associated with the act.

Adopting E-Learning: Lessons From the Government

Dorman Woodall 5/1/03

The use of e-learning within government agencies is one area where the government leads much of Corporate America in widespread adoption, the development of innovative applications and its incorporation as an essential component in agency-wide learning in

Minolta: Developing a Quality Team

Emily Hollis 5/1/03

With approximately 6,000 in-house and dealer-affiliated service technicians to train, Minolta’s Business Products Group (BPG) has had to innovate in order to keep up with frequent new-product rollouts. Minolta is a leading manufacturer of image informatio

July/August 2003

Clomedia.com Editor 7/1/03

Pat Crull: Toys 'R' Us Takes Learning Seriously

Tim Sosbe 7/1/03

Measuring Learning Investments

Clomedia.com Editor 6/5/03

I was recently asked to submit a cost analysis on attending a major trade event. To build my case, I outlined objectives and mapped a strategy for reaching them. I established a metric by which to determine satisfactory return on investment (ROI) and list

Royal & SunAlliance: Ensuring World-Class Performance

Emily Hollis 7/1/03

With around 50,000 employees and operations in more than 40 countries, Royal & SunAlliance, a leading global insurer, faces numerous challenges in getting learning to its employees. In October 2002, Royal & SunAlliance took the fir

The New Enterprise Learning Footprint

Nick Van Dam 7/1/03

Since the introduction of the first e-learning solutions in 1996, a lot has changed in corporate education and training. The first wave of e-learning started with self-paced learning followed by the fast growth of live e-learning. The next step in this ev

Debunking the LCMS Myth

Jennifer Vollmer 7/1/03

There has been a lot of buzz in the e-learning market around defining what learning management systems and learning content management systems are and are not. In 2001, META Group predicted that learning content management systems as a market segment were

PTC: Blended Learning for Sales Training

Emily Hollis 7/1/03

PTC develops and supports software solutions that help manufacturers automate product development processes, helping to decrease time to market and drive development costs down. With around 4,000 employees, PTC has maintained a siloed training organizatio

Case Study: Training on the Last Frontier

Emily Hollis 7/16/03

Facing the challenges of a remotely distributed workforce that needs to keep up with government-mandated training, Alyeska turned to technology to help meet its needs.

The Role of Middle Managers in Learning

Clomedia.com Editor 9/4/03

As an aspiring educator in public education, my professors and mentors taught me that the teacher’s first responsibility is to the learners and to helping those students achieve their learning outcomes. That means that teachers have an obligation to utili

Lands' End: Learning That Fits

Diane Siroky 9/4/03

Lands’ End, one of the largest catalog retailers in the world, has built a successful business by combining high-quality customer service with comfortable, well-made clothing that fits. Over the years, the company has also built a reputation as a great pl

Child Health Corporation of America: Driving Learning Success

Emily Hollis 10/1/03

CHEX Knowledge Exchange was developed by Child Health Corporation of America, an alliance of 41 non-competing children's hospitals, based on a cost-analysis study that looked at education in the various hospitals to find ways to provide education t

Kinko's: Documenting Success

Emily Hollis 10/1/03

With 20,000 team members working in more than 1,100 different locations, Kinko’s understands the value of training that can be delivered anytime, anywhere. To help reduce costs associated with instructor-led training and to enable a blended learning solut

Deb Capolarello: Managing Culture Change at MetLife

Emily Hollis 10/1/03

With a career history that includes multiple cross-functional roles, Deb Capolarello, senior vice president and chief learning officer for MetLife, knows the value of varied experience. A teacher by education, Capolarello entered the corporate education w

U.S. Air Force to Benefit From Blended Learning

Emily Hollis 10/15/03

Over the next five years, network field personnel in the United States Air Force will receive blended learning in various technologies.

Cliff Purington: Education Blasts Off at Rockwell Collins

Tim Sosbe 10/30/03

Spend a few minutes with Cliff Purington, director of learning and development for Rockwell Collins, and you’ll meet a different kind of chief learning officer. Purington’s got the right pedigree—reared in organizational development—and demonstrable talen

Lubrizol: Driving Employees to E-Learning

Clomedia.com Editor 10/30/03

Lubrizol is a global, fluid technology company concentrating on high-performance chemicals, systems and service for industry and transportation. Part of Lubrizol’s corporate vision is to develop and leverage global talent, so training is a priority from t

Web Conferencing: The Future of Training

Frank L. Greenagel, Ph.D. 10/30/03

Web conferencing is no longer the exclusive tool of Fortune 500 companies and major consulting firms. With little more than a Web browser, an Internet connection and a credit card, even small firms and nonprofit organizations can hold conferences and trai

Acadient Targets Mutual Fund Industry With Training

Emily Hollis 11/26/03

Training Analytics: The Next Big Wave in Learning Management Technology

Josh Bersin 12/1/03

Learning management systems have become the mainstream technology underlying corporate training and the migration to e-learning. Today with PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel and IBM, as well as Saba, Docent and dozens of others in the market, companies have many

Brink's Home Security: Safe Solutions

Emily Hollis 12/1/03

Monitoring the safety of more than 800,000 homes, Irving, Texas-based Brink’s Home Security knows that learning is imperative to customer satisfaction and company success. With more than 2,600 employees in the United States and Canada, Brink’s Home Securi

Blended Learning: Finding What Works

Clomedia.com Editor 12/19/03

January 2004

Clomedia.com Editor 1/2/04

Blended Learning and Business Change

Michael Brennan 1/2/04

Online delivery of training (i.e., e-learning) has surpassed the early-adopter stage, and companies find that the longer they use it, the more they use it. A cost-cutting slant has been effective in fostering its growth as a tool at the disposal of traini

Blended Learning: Finding What Works

Clomedia.com Editor 12/19/03

Blended learning is the latest buzzword in corporate training. It sounds so simple—mixing e-learning with other types of training delivery. But now that Internet training is so widespread, where does it fit? What are the best ways to “blend” delivery type

CNA Insurance: Leading With Blended Learning

Josh Bersin 1/2/04

In the spring of 2002, CNA Insurance decided to dramatically change its leadership strategy through a new performance management process. The new process set in place a set of performance-planning tools and processes that affected more than 2,300 managers

LMS: Your Key to Competitive Advantage

Jason Averbook 1/2/04

Can a call-center attendant, in the critical moment, quickly find the answer a customer requires to remain loyal? Does a company know if its investment in new product sales training actually contributes to increasing revenue? Overflowing and unmanageable,

The Future Agenda of CLOs

Clomedia.com Editor 12/19/03

In a relatively short time, CLOs have responded with due diligence and intelligence to the threats to the support, survival and growth systems of thinking, learning and training. But consolidation and reconfiguration now need to be followed by developing

U.S. Navy: Smooth Sailing for Education

Emily Hollis 2/2/04

For the U.S. Navy, “mission-critical learning” takes on a whole new meaning. Reaching around 2 million people with learning, the Naval Education Training Command (NETC) designs the guidelines under which training is developed and delivered for active-duty

Novartis: Supporting Sales Leaders Through Simulations

Emily Hollis 2/2/04

Novartis, a leader in pharmaceutical research and development with businesses in pharmaceuticals, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health, was created in 1996 from the merger of the Swiss companies Ciba and Sandoz. Headquartered in Basel, Sw

Next-Generation Blended Learning Solutions

Emily Hollis 2/11/04

What exactly counts as blended learning, and how will this new approach to enterprise education evolve?

They're Buying Holes, Not Shovels

Fred Harburg 3/1/04

In 1960 Theodore Leavitt wrote “Marketing Myopia,” the groundbreaking article published in the Harvard Business Review in which he asked mangers, “What business are you really in?” Leavitt suggested that if those in charge of the railroads had been asking

UPS: Delivering Lifelong Learning

Emily Hollis 3/1/04

With a workforce of around 360,000 in the United States and around the world, the training and development leaders at UPS are intent on creating a lifelong learning environment. Corporate schools manage the various stages of employees’ careers, from orien

Are Your Top Leaders Battling to Build Energy?

Emily Hollis 3/3/04

Are Your Top Leaders Battling to Build Energy?

Emily Hollis 3/3/04

Although the economy may be showing signs of recovery, senior leaders are just beginning to feel some of the repercussions of the economic downturn, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Business School and eePulse Inc., which delivers

M-Learning: The Next Wave for Training and Development

Emily Hollis 3/17/04

Mobile devices and wireless networks are booming. According to Gartner Inc., more than 50 percent of professional notebooks will have wireless LAN (WLAN) capability by the end of 2004. In the same time period, Gartner says that through WLAN hot spots, tra

The Internal Revenue Service: Counting on Learning

Emily Hollis 3/27/04

With around 100,000 permanent and 20,000 seasonal employees, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a branch of the Department of Treasury, interacts with more Americans than any other public or private institution. In 2002, the IRS processed almost 227 mill