Aligning Learning: The Role of Portfolio Management
When: Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Everyone struggles with aligning learning to the strategic needs of the business. Companies that are moving to centralized funding or decision-making models, Learning Product Managers or College Deans creating priorities in their particular area, business unit learning leaders, sales training organizations – all have to develop a sense of what really matters to the business. And Portfolio Management can help. This systematic tool for making choices takes the guesswork out of the prioritization process. And the discussions that go into populating a Portfolio Management tool can open the door to a shared corporate understanding of what really matters.
- The different alignment scenarios where Portfolio Management can help.
- How the Portfolio Management process can begin the critical discussion about goal- and priority-setting, critical to achieving alignment.
- How, using even a simple Portfolio Management tool, learning organizations can test what-if scenarios, track and compare existing programs and new initiatives, and enhance the strategic importance of the learning organization.
Presenters:
Mark has been active in the corporate training environment since 1980, when he started as a Technical Instructor teaching computerized phone systems. Since then he has broadened his knowledge of corporate education, filling a variety of roles in leading-edge electronics firms, such as IBM. Ericsson, ROLM, and Qualcomm. Mark has managed course development and delivery functions, and has designed curricula and measurements systems. An advocate and innovator of “task-based” training programs, he has led redesigns of corporate education models to match customer field requirements. Most recently Mark has been establishing the standards and processes for an online college, and has been a contributing author and researcher for Corporate University Xchange.