Reducing Confusion, Redundancy, and Inefficiency: The Boeing Company’s LMS Consolidation Initiative
When: Thursday, November 18th, 2010 : 11:00AM - 12:00PM EDT
Just owning technology does not drive business strategy. Using technology efficiently and effectively, however, can.
The Boeing Company (Boeing), with over 158,000 employees in over 70 countries, has one of the most complex and diverse global corporate workforces in the world. Unfortunately, acquisitions, mergers, and company growth resulted in the company having over 40 different learning management systems (LMSs) that delivered and tracked critical training, such as technical certification. Unable to effectively oversee corporate learning data with this patchwork of technology, the Boeing Learning, Training and Development (BLTD) function decided to consolidate those systems.
Come find out how Boeing’s award-winning initiative addressed critical success factors such as communication, change management, and complex technology needs. Learn how their LMS consolidation efforts resulted in:
- Decreased user-end problems and confusion;
- Reduced course redundancy;
- Increased productivity; and
- Millions in savings.
Presenters:
Bill Epstein is Director, Technology & Innovation, Learning, Training & Development (LTD) for The Boeing Company. In this role, Bill is responsible for leading learning technology & innovation processes across LTD and for integrating and leveraging technology development efforts with other strategic sources internal and external to Boeing. In addition, Bill was responsible for implementing a new enterprise learning management system for The Boeing Company. This included consolidating 33 legacy learning systems into 1 one auditable learning system for The Boeing Company, which included supporting 400,000 users, which included international employees (over 70 countries), suppliers and subsidiaries.
Prior to joining LTD, Bill held a number of increasing roles of responsibilities within Boeing, including positions within Boeing’s Advanced Systems, Air Force Systems, Battle Management, Command, Control and Communication and launch vehicle organizations.
Bill has over 28 years of engineering/management experience with Boeing and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago, a Master’s degree in business administration from the University of California, Irvine and a Doctoral degree in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University.
