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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

Consolidation in the Knowledge Management Sector

Peter L. Martin 8/24/02

With all the fear currently residing in the market, consolidation is being widely discussed. The topic of consolidation is often thrown about as if deals are started and closed over a weekend. This is not the case, which is why attrition is end result for

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.

Training Your Teams in Downsized Environments

Clomedia.com Editor 8/25/02

The events of Sept. 11 rocked the airline industry to its core. To an enterprise that had weathered the storms of fuel embargos, mergers, devastating air disasters and labor unrest, there was simply no precedent for the impact of an event of this magnitud

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?

Enterprise Learning: The New 'Killer App'

Trisha Bright and Chris James 8/25/02

The increasing presence on executive staffs of a chief leaning officer or someone with a similar title represents the emerging recognition that an organization's talent is a strategic asset- an essential element in achieving organizational goals.

E-Learning: The Second Wave

Tom Graunke, CEO - KnowledgeNet Inc. 9/1/02

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

AstraZeneca: Using Technology to Ensure Compliance

Clomedia.com Editor 9/3/02

VWR Takes Learning Around the World

Clomedia.com Editor 9/3/02

Collaborative Tools for e-Learning

Curtis J. Bonk, Ph.D. 11/1/02

When my colleague Padma Medury and I conducted a survey on collaborative technologies and groupware in 1990, little did we know the degree to which Web-based tools would reshape and elevate this field. We discovered conferencing and collaboration tools fo

Cypress University Helps Grow Learning

Amy Corrigan 11/1/02

When Cypress Semiconductor Corp., a provider of high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communication system applications, was faced with widespread company growth, it needed to redesign its training prog

NEC America: Connecting with Education

Emily Hollis 11/1/02

NEC America, a network communications company offering hardware, software, services and solutions, is a billion-dollar company operating in the United States, Canada and South America. Faced with a growing platform of employees and partners to train, in 2

United States Postal Service: Delivering Workforce Development

Tim Sosbe 11/1/02

The Killer App for Managing Talent

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

“The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.” – Peter Drucker, “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”

Will Customers Get Derailed by the e-Learning Shakeout?

Sam S. Adkins 11/1/02

The e-learning industry appears to be stabilizing in the recession. E-learning companies in business today have survived the dot-com meltdown and have adapted to the challenges of a recessionary market. It sure looks like there is a light at the end of th

Assessing Learning Management Systems

Clomedia.com Editor 12/11/02

Sorting Through Solutions

Norm Kamikow 1/6/03

If you listen to the social pundits, we live in a time of excess. Fast food, fast cars, get-rich-quick schemes, instant gratification that takes too long. It’s a go-go world full of a dizzying array of options, choices, systems and solutions.

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

BellSouth Saves with LMS and Online Learning

Charles Davidson 1/6/03

Companies that operate in regulated industries, like BellSouth, must negotiate many complex rules and guidelines. Over the years, BellSouth has expanded into unregulated businesses such as Internet solutions and a yellow pages subsidiary. But its core com

Quenching the Thirst for Learning at Crown Cork & Seal

Emily Hollis 1/6/03

Crown Cork & Seal Company Inc., which makes one of every five beverage cans used in the world and one of every three food cans used in North American and Europe, invests heavily in employee training in order to ensure its high-quality manufact

Xcel Energy Consolidates Learning for Business Results

Emily Hollis 1/6/03

Xcel Energy is the nation’s fourth largest combined utility, created by the merger of Minneapolis-based Northern States Power Co. and Denver-based New Century Energies. The electricity and national gas company has operations in 12 Western and Midwestern s

Ensuring the Success of Learning Technology Deployments: A Closer Look at Standards

Emily Hollis 1/16/03

Discouraged by the difficulty of sharing distance learning across various learning management systems, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) formed the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) specification group.

March/April 2003

Clomedia.com Editor 3/4/03

The Evolution of Training and Certification

Sam Adkins 3/4/03

IT training and certification will never be the same. New innovations in enterprise technology can measure performance skills and provide remediation in real time, on the job, in the context of an information worker’s workflow. The impact on training and

Learning in the Large Enterprise: Centralized vs. Decentralized

Joe Ellis and Todd Mauldin 3/4/03

The debate over the centralization versus decentralization of operations within a large enterprise is a never-ending one. It is an age-old battle of standardization versus autonomy, corporate efficiency versus local effectiveness and pressure on costs and

SSM Health Care: Learning and Retention

Emily Hollis 3/4/03

SSM Health Care (SSMHC) is one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country, with 19 acute care hospitals in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, in addition to rehabilitation and pediatric services, long-term and residential care faciliti

Compliance: What CLOs Should Know

Eric Rosen 3/4/03

By now, it is a cliché to say that the rise of the Internet, e-mail and World Wide Web a decade ago revolutionized virtually every field of human endeavor. During the first half of that decade, early adopters experienced problems that today

Training and HIPAA: Are You in Compliance?

Jennifer Vollmer and Lauri Ingram 3/4/03

Emerging Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance regulations require companies to train employees and certify that they comprehend the appropriate laws and are skillful in their own actions under such policy guidelines. A st

Negotiating an LMS Contract: Traps and Pitfalls

Howard B. Schechter, Ed.D. 3/4/03

Purchasing a learning management system (LMS) or a hosted LMS contract is like entering into a long-term relationship. However, the initial negotiations often tend to be oriented toward annual contracts. It actually takes about three years to inculcate th

Issues in Government Learning

Emily Hollis 3/12/03

The Effect of Linux Deployment on Enterprise Learning

Emily Hollis 3/26/03

The Enterprise LMS Market: Where Are We Now?

Clomedia.com Editor 4/9/03

May/June 2003

Clomedia.com Editor 5/1/03

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

Halliburton: Drilling Into Education

Emily Hollis 5/1/03

Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the largest providers of products and services to the oil and gas industries. Employing approximately 85,000 people in more than 100 countries, Halliburton is divided into two operating groups: the Energy Services G

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

The Enterprise LMS Market: Where Are We Now?

Clomedia.com Editor 4/9/03

Given the state of the enterprise e-learning market, evaluating and selecting the right vendor has never been more difficult. Global 2000 organizations have moved away from HR-centric enterprise learning and are instead focused on smaller, leaner LMS depl

Choosing an LMS: Taking Architecture Into Account

Emily Hollis 4/30/03

When chief learning officers are making decisions around learning management systems, it is important to take the company’s existing technology into account.

Union Pacific: On Track With Training

Emily Hollis 5/1/03

Union Pacific Railroad is the largest railroad in North America, with more than 33,000 route miles of railway in 23 states. Kevin Nailer, assistant vice president of HR, Planning and Development for Union Pacific is responsible for the technical training

Getting a Handle on Regulated Training

Emily Hollis 5/28/03

While much of the corporate world focuses on the developmental side of training"human resources, sales and management training" there is a lot to be learned from the operational side of the business.

Making Certification Part of a Business Strategy

Emily Hollis 6/18/03

Many organizations require industry certification as part of their learning strategies, particularly for IT professionals. Certification programs provide a means of verifying the knowledge of employees through a high-stakes assessment.

Transportation Security Administration: Safety in Numbers

Emily Hollis 7/1/03

As the aftershocks of the events of Sept. 11 rocked the United States, the U.S. government got to work finding ways to protect its citizens from future terrorist attacks. As a result, on Nov. 19, 2001, President Bush signed into law the Aviation and Trans

Technology to Enhance the Learning Experience

Bonni Frazee 7/1/03

It is rare to pick up a training industry magazine without seeing multiple references to e-learning or other types of technology. It can be challenging to decipher exactly what each tool has to offer and how you can match the right technology with a given

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

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

Simulations: What Do You Need to Know?

Annette DiLello and Dave Wilkins 7/1/03

Have you been hearing all of the talk about simulations? It seems that the focus of every learning analyst and recent industry magazine article is software simulation. There are simulation shootouts at conference events, white papers from one e-learning g

Turner Construction Co.: Building the Future

Clomedia.com Editor 7/1/03

Turner Construction Company is the leading commercial builder in the United States, completing more than 1,600 projects a year across 42 business units in 27 states. The company has more than 4,700 employees and works with over 25,000 subcontractors, whic

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