The most valuable assets of a business are not its equipment or its factories. The most valuable assets are its people, and that's why smart companies invest in continually training and updating their employees' skill sets. These days, much of that training happens on-line and even on-demand, accommodating remote and mobile workers and busy executive schedules. This briefing center explores the benefits businesses can reap by giving their staff access to technology-based training, overcome challenges with integrating diverse systems, and measure their returns on these investments. This site is a collaboration between CMP Technology and SkillSoft.
eLearning for Business Success Featured White Papers
The Future of Learning
This comprehensive study of e-learning, including interviews with more than 200 employees and web survey responses from over 5,000 participants, reveals that employees expect to be able to access training right from their desktops or wherever they are from a laptop or in a virtual classroom. How will you meet these growing expectations? Read the White Paper.
The Role of Technology-Based Learning
With technology-based learning such as online courses, books and video, your company can extend leadership training to an increasingly mobile and remote workforce, provide more opportunities to overlooked middle management, and reinforce key points of live training to help employees maintain positive changes in behavior. Read the White Paper.
eLearning for Business Success Additional White Papers
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Linking Learning to the Broader Human Capital Strategy
The Human Capital Institute finds that linking learning strategy to human capital strategy can have dramatic results in keeping an organization competitive and flexible in order to respond to market imperatives. Organizations that link learning to HCM must be sure to reach out to the learner wherever they are working, assign the right learning to the right person based on their roles, and use blended learning to speed time-to-competence and reduce costs. Read the White Paper.
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Making the Abundant Relevant: Solving Today's Learning Challenges Through a Next Generation Technology Architecture
In order for e-learning to reach its potential, companies must be able to integrate a wide variety of technology systems and content types, and present content in a way that is relevant to the individual learner. SkillSoft's Open Learning Services Architecture initiative strives to make it easier and faster for your organization to leverage learning resources that are aligned with a broad range of business objectives. Read the White Paper.
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How Executives Stay Informed: A Study of Resources Used and Time Spent Locating Critical Business Information by Bersin & Associates
"Learning-on-demand" is an imperative for today's senior-level executives. They want to find "just enough" learning to solve the problem at hand, but typically wind up spending hours each week searching the Internet in frustration for business-related information that will help them stay informed and current. Read the White Paper.
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Getting Started with e-Learning
Today's corporate environment calls for out of the box thinking, incorporating the benefits of many types of learning to benefit your company's single biggest investment — your people. Find out why e-learning should be one of them. Read the White Paper.
Playbook
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Training Up: The Skills You’ll Need to SucceedThe job market today is good for IT pros, but you’ve got to plan for the long-term. To that end, you need to think not just about today’s must-have technical skills, but also about tomorrow’s better-have “soft” skills, and about acquiring a dash of business acumen. Turn to this playbook to learn more about diversifying your skill sets, to build the foundation for your future. Read the playbook.
Podcast
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IT Skills Outlook
To succeed, IT professionals need not only to be tech-savvy, but business-smart. Those who fail to develop their "soft" management and business skills may be at risk. Tune in to this podcast and learn how to future-proof your career. Listen to the podcast.
Case Study
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Christiana Care Health System: Healthcare IT department develops project leaders through e-learning
Following a reorganization and re-evaluation of job roles, Christiana Care's IT organization needed to quickly retrain staff to better support health system projects. The organization has reduced training costs and time to productive competence. Read the Case Study.
About the Sponsor
SkillSoft is a leading provider of e-learning and performance support solutions. Offerings include business, IT, desktop and compliance courseware, simulations, KnowledgeCenter portals, mentoring, SkillPort LMS and Dialogue virtual classroom. Books24x7 offers online access to unabridged IT and business books, summaries and reports. For more information, visit www.skillsoft.com