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Enterprise Learning: A Spending Summary

Gary Gabelhouse 8/22/02

The enterprise-learning market is 37 percent larger than the U.S. motion picture industry, and more than twice as large as the burgeoning video-game industry. Even in the midst of the most recent economic recession, enterprise spending on learning grew 1.5

Organizing Enterprise-Wide E-Learning and Human Capital Management

Clomedia.com Editor 3/28/03

In this global and hyper-competitive knowledge economy, the real value of a chief learning officer is not his or her expertise in learning or leadership development or even technology—it is rather the ability to link such things to an overall enterprise-w

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

Creating the Demand for Education

Paula Moreira 9/4/03

If you’ve been following the trade journals and learning and development conferences, you’ve probably noticed that an awakening of sorts is going on. The fact that we are even addressing motivation as a factor in learning is a sure indication that we as a

October 2003

Clomedia.com Editor 10/1/03

Informal Learning: A Sound Investment

Jay Cross 10/1/03

Workers who know more get more accomplished. People who are well connected make greater contributions. The workers who create the most value are those who know the right people, the right stuff and the right things to do. It’s all a matter of learning

Human Capital Measurement: A Challenge for the CLO

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D. 12/1/03

A recent study conducted by the human capital practice at Deloitte & Touche in the United Kingdom made an interesting conclusion: There is much confusion about what to measure and monitor in the human capital arena. This comes as no surprise t

Is Your Learning Department Strategic or Just Necessary?

Jeanne C. Meister 1/2/04

In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “IT Doesn’t Matter,” Nicholas Carr questioned the strategic value of IT. Carr argues that the pervasiveness of IT makes it necessary, but strategically irrelevant. I read the article and thought, “

HR Outsourcing: The Impact on Corporate Learning

Jonathan S. Andrews 2/2/04

Corporate learning has always been the poor relation of all the management disciplines. Some corporations simply don’t believe in it, preferring to buy knowledge and skills when needed. Others have a large training department for internal courses and a si

Evaluating a Reusable Learning Object Strategy

Margaret Driscoll 3/1/04

There is little debate that effective instructional content (instructional material) is the cornerstone of good online learning and other kinds of instruction, such as traditional classroom instruction, videos, CBTs and job aids. The challenge for CLOs is

Flying in Formation: The Organizational Commitment of Training and Development

Michael Brennan 3/1/04

Organizations around the world continue efforts to maximize the productivity of their employees in the face of competitive, legislative and socioeconomic change. More and more, senior learning professionals are being asked to enhance employee performance

Unleashing Organizational Know-How

Todd Wyles & Zane Berge, Ph.D. 3/27/04

For many large U.S businesses, the past few years have been lean ones. The recession of 2001 and the jobless recovery that has ensued has seen management focus on cost-cutting and increasing productivity to position their companies for growth in the next

Emergent Learning

Jay Cross 3/27/04

Not so long ago, e-learning was a utopian dream. Networked learning would educate the world. E-learning promoters saw themselves as innovators writing corporate history. Excitement filled the air. That future has arrived. Today a healthy percentage of

Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture

Pamela Tate & Becky Klein-Collins 3/27/04

Four years ago, a South Dakota-based health care organization developed a partnership with a local university to offer an online nursing degree program for its employees. Around the same time, an Illinois manufacturer brought a local university on-site to

Learning from Disappointment: Why Learning Solutions Fail to Deliver Results

Clomedia.com Editor 5/17/04

Learning solutions are routinely implemented with the promise of delivering results. Too often, the results are disappointing. While the factors creating the lack of success are varied, they can usually be grouped into the categories described in this art

Learning From Disappointment: When Learning Solutions Fail to Deliver

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D. 6/2/04

Learning solutions are routinely implemented with the promise of delivering results. Too often, the results are disappointing. While the factors creating the lack of success are varied, they can usually be grouped into 10 familiar categories.

The Power of Informal Learning

Clomedia.com Editor 7/1/04

With the dramatic decline in traditional classroom training, the increased popularity of e-learning and the emergence of a more project-based and outcome-driven learning model, it’s important to take a look at the type of learner we are trying to serve an

The Trickle-Up Theory of Education

Norm Kamikow 7/1/04

I’ve had a lifetime of great teachers, both in schools and in the “real world.” But business has turned out to be the greatest educator and experience the sharpest master. With each passing day, week, month, year, I learn more about myself, my employees,

July 2004

Clomedia.com Editor 7/1/04

Contextualized Learning: Empowering Education

Steve Rae and Tony O’Driscoll 7/30/04

Customers expect responses in real time. The sales cycle requires access to market trends in real time. And when organizations cannot or do not make critical learning content available in real time, individuals resort to the click-through ease of the Inte

How Much Should You Invest in Education?

Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D. 7/30/04

Learning and development in organizations in the past decade has transcended from low-level activities to high-profile contributors to organizational success. Budgets are growing at a faster rate than the gross national product. External learning supplier

Collaborative Tools in the Learning Continuum

Clomedia.com Editor 9/13/04

I recently guest-lectured on trends in workplace learning for a group of students studying for higher degrees in human resources. The students were working adults who enrolled in an evening program. I started my talk by asking the students to tell me abou

A Centralized Knowledge Base Means On-Time, Every-Time Learning

Kellye Whitney 12/1/04

Most organizations want to increase productivity and enable their employees to perform their job functions with a higher level of proficiency. A blended approach to learning and knowledge sharing is one method of achieving these goals. E-learning can be e

Learning at Work - The Fundamental Principles

Tom Atkinson and Jocelyn Davis 1/28/05

As the pace of business grows faster and the stakes for learning organizations climb higher, there is more pressure to deliver results. CLOs must not overlook the fundamentals that help ensure success.

Developing and Leading Effective Global Teams

Michael Brennan & Paul Braswell 3/1/05

Today’s teams often work across time zones, performing at high levels and adapting to escalating demands. Competency management, personalized learning and virtual environments can help global teams make an impact.

April 2005

Clomedia.com Editor 3/29/05

Formalizing Informal Learning

Brenda Wisniewski & Kevin McMahon 3/29/05

Learning is a cycle that includes formal courses and informal experiences like collaboration and feedback. The key to supporting powerful performance is the ability to capture, share and leverage informal learning.

Learning Applications: Education in Context

Heidi Spirgi & Greg Thompson 3/29/05

Knowledge drives business performance, and linking mission-critical information to each employee's role and work is essential to success. The technology is available, but the model must adapt to changing needs.

Portals: Enabling On-Demand Education

Mary Kay Vona, Ed.D. & Piero Granelli 3/29/05

For years, learners have been leaving their workstations to attend training. Imagine the power of learning embedded into the workday. Through portal technology, development can take place at the time of need.

Knowledge Sharing for the Mobile Workforce

Ron Edwards 5/3/05

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.

Reporting Results: Managing Measurement

Michael Brannick 5/31/05

The ability to provide valid measures of success for any learning program is key to achieving support for future initiatives. Knowledge training and assessment programs can provide data in multiple formats to transform learning business operations.

Innovations in Collaboration

Sam S. Adkins 5/31/05

Global revenues from collaboration applications are expected to reach more than $11 billion by 2007. Learning leaders are taking advantage of the technology to help people work together.

The Learner Lifecycle

Jay Cross 8/1/05

The National Security Agency: Education Produces Protection

Brian Summerfield 8/29/05

Cracking the code of transmissions from adversaries is key to national security. The U.S. National Security Agency relies on learning to help develop its top-secret workforce into performance leaders.

Blended Learning: Reinforcing Results

Jeff Snipes 8/29/05

The Research Institute of America has documented declining retention following course completion. Through careful planning and thoughtful partnership, blended solutions can yield impressive results.

Overcoming Challenges in Learning and Development

Clomedia.com Editor 8/29/05

Economic, social and technological changes are affecting the increasingly global workforce. Research suggests a shortage of skills for future job roles. Next-generation CLOs must answer strategic questions to overcome these challenges.

Three Sides of Enablement

Clomedia.com Editor 8/29/05

Letters to the Editor

Clomedia.com Editor 7/1/04

Creating an Environment That Facilitates Informal Learning

Kellye Whitney 10/26/05

There are dozens of different ways to dispense learning and development opportunities to teach, encourage use of learning tools and otherwise foster acquisition of the skills and knowledge required to enhance performance and create the bottom line impact

E-Reference: The Real Just-in-Time Training

Clomedia.com Editor 10/28/05

Looking Forward: The Learning & Development Industry in 2006

Peter McStravick 12/28/05

Each year brings with it a mix of new potential challenges and solutions for chief learning officers everywhere. With 2006 upon us, IDC asked Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board which areas of the learning and development industr

Beyond the Talk About Blended Learning

Allison Rossett, Ed.D. 1/3/06

Are you skeptical about blended learning? There has been a lot of talk about blending, and any topic that’s on everybody’s lips isn’t typically on mine. Also, blending is more complicated than scheduling a class or pointing people to an online course.

Getting It Right: How to Learn From the Past

Clomedia.com Editor 1/27/06

In the past decade, I have had the opportunity to review the effectiveness (or lack of it) of at least 100 learning and development centers and corporate universities. A center and its programs are often impressive on paper, but a deeper analysis sometime

Changes Ahead

Jay Cross 1/27/06

Is your organization ready for massive change? Have your people learned how to cope with increasingly fast cycle times, escalating ambiguity and avalanches of incoming information? Do you have a Plan B if your current structure proves too brittle? Futuris

The Business Approach: Increasing Profits Through Marketing Methodologies

Ajay M. Pangarkar and Teresa Kirkwood 1/27/06

Learning executives are challenged to “sell” the benefits of an intangible need to those wanting tangible results. External consultants understand this obstacle. However, when those responsible for learning and development propose solutions, they often

The Power of the Human Voice

Jim Boring 1/27/06

One of the most powerful and underused learning tools readily available to the CLO is the recorded human voice. With widely dispersed knowledge workers whose expertise is in need of constant updating and expansion, it is surprising how few companies use t

Driving Greater Value From an LMS

Heidi Spirgi 3/1/06

Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted

Making Your LMS Dance

Elliott Masie 3/1/06

It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav

Cerner: Providing a Hub for Learning

Jeanne C. Meister 3/1/06

In an industry as complex as health-care IT, associate and client training is crucial to a company’s success. Cerner committed itself to investing in learning and development with the launch in 1996 of Cerner Virtual University. Robert Campbell, a learnin

The Low-Hanging Fruit Is Tasty

Jay Cross 3/27/06