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Alstom University Case Study: Learning to Support Growth 
Alstom is a world leader in supplying the needs of the power generation, power grid and rail transportation industries. The company almost went bankrupt in 2003, but has since grown to a company with 93,500 employees and revenues of €20.9 billion in 2010/2011. Even during its hardest times, however, the company continued to train employees. The problem was that the learning was scattered and uneven and would not properly support a company that was embarked on a major rebuilding effort and moving into new markets and market sectors. Alstom University (AU) was tasked to create a new ... Read More »
Research Brief
The Business Case for Creating a Corporate University
This paper sets forth the business case for creating a corporate university, based on the premise that corporate universities are the current best practice for systematically building human capital – a key capability for adaptive, innovative, knowledge-based organizations. The term “corporate university” is most prevalent in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but whether it is called an academy, institute, or center for excellence, the feature that distinguishes it remains the same: the alignment of key learning programs so they actively support the strategic interests of the business.
Corporate universities offer a curriculum designed to support major change initiatives, serve to align staff development with business goals and improve the ROI associated with training investments. Corporate universities help create the conditions for strategic agility and innovation in a knowledge economy. Successful corporate universities have executive support and oversight to assure corporate goals and training align; appropriate technologies to assure and measure transfer and retention of knowledge and skills; and a well documented organizational plan for execution. Companies with efficient and effective corporate universities show measurable improvements to the bottom line in shareholder return, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Read More »
Research Brief
Have You Thought about Your Mobile Learning Strategy? Considerations for Using Tablets for Learning
Updated, Mon Aug 15.
A common question we hear from learning organizations is whether or not they should pursue the use of tablets in their mobile learning strategy. The amount of change in the tablet market has been a moving target, making plans and strategy difficult, to say the least. For those who need to gain understanding about tablets as a mobile learning strategy, there are certain things to consider before diving in. Below are some questions and answers that might help you make a decision regarding the use of tablets for learning.
What are the Benefits of Using Tablets ... Read More »
Research Brief
Transcription, Captioning, and Localization: Tools and Partners to Consider for Video
As more companies look to unleash video initiatives across the workforce, the challenges faced include getting a good transcription of the text that was spoken during the video, associating the transcription with the video frames so that someone could read along, and translating these transcripts to the local languages needed. Here were the four questions asked in the past two months that we're gathering into a short synopsis of what's out there and what's changed since CorpU last covered accessibility and localization in learning programs:
Are there any online services that provide machine transcriptions of video files ... Read More »
Commentary
Mergers, Acquisitions, And Partnerships: May 2011 Update
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnership: May 2011 Update
For the month of May, CorpU analysts and researchers have identified five mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships worthy of comment from the news, including Trivantis's acquisition of Flypaper, VMware's acquisition of Socialcast, Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, Knightsbridge Human Capital Management's acquisition of iPal Interactive, and InVision's acquisition of The Call Center School.
Trivantis Acquired Flypaper Studio
VMware Acquired Enterprise Social Collaboration Capabilities
Microsoft Acquired Skype
Knightsbridge Human Capital Management Acquired eLearning capabilities
InVision Software Extends Cloud Computing Strategy
Trivantis Acquired Flypaper Studio
Trivantis, a provider of an elearning authoring ... Read More »
Commentary
Mergers, Acquisitions, And Partnerships: April 2011 Update
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnership: April 2011 Update
For the month of April, CorpU analysts and researchers have identified five mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships worthy of comment from the news, including SuccessFactors' acquisition of Plateau, Peopleclick Authoria's acquisition of Aquire, Jive's acquisition of Proximal Labs, Desire2Learn's acquisition of Captual, and Polycom’s acquisition of Accordent.
Contents:
Peopleclick Authoria Acquires Analytics and Modeling Capabilities
Jive Acquires Proximal Labs
Desire2Learn to Offer Presentation Capture and Webcasting Solutions
Polycom Acquires Accordent Technologies
SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau
Peopleclick Authoria Acquired Analytics and Modeling Capabilities
Peopleclick Authoria, a provider of talent management software solutions ... Read More »
Research Brief
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships: March 2011 Update
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships: March 2011 Update
In this installation, CorpU analysts and researchers have identified five mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships worthy of comment from the news, including General Physics' acquisition of RWD Technologies, Interoute's acquisition of Visual Conference Group, Berlitz's acquisition of Second Language Testing, Inmedius's acquisition of Knowledge Xtensions (to extend its Gen21 LMS), Skillsoft's acquisition of 50Lessons assets to fold into its Leadership Development Channel, and Xyleme's partnership with Comtech.
Contents:
General Physics Extends Market Reach
Interoute Adds Video Conferencing and Telepresence Services
Berlitz to Offer Customized Language Test
Inmedius Extends eLearning ... Read More »
Commentary
Colleges and Companies Should Work Together for a Better Tomorrow
Are colleges doing what they need to prepare students for the jobs of the 21st century?
Are new hires, especially those just finishing their first college degrees, ready to be productive contributors?
If the answers to the first two questions are negative, what can learning leaders do to optimize their company's investment in new talent?
This article presents the challenges of today's college preparation of the 21st century workforce, and strategies that learning leaders can take to ensure that the incoming, college educated talent pool can meet the strategic needs of their companies.
What Is Missing in Today ... Read More »
Commentary
Considering Outsourcing? Relationships Reduce Risk
Unless you're a hardened drifter in a spaghetti western, going it alone is not a very scalable or efficient strategy. If you think BIG but just aren't there yet, outsourcing some efforts to a vendor can help you achieve cheaper, better, faster or more responsive results. The real trick, though, is finding the right vendor and making sure your interests are aligned.
Why focus on the outsourcing relationship?
Many companies have built relationships with suppliers to cover a whole host of activities:
Hosting, administering, and managing your learning systems
Helping your subject matter experts to produce much more ... Read More »
Case Study
Texas Health Resources Case Study: Using Alliances to Avert a Nursing Shortage
To address nursing shortages and new certification requirements, the Texas Health Resources Center for Learning and Career Development (TC4L) reached out to academic partners Dallas County Community College District’s El Centro College and the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing. These partnerships led to the creation of four programs: an Associate’s Degree in Nursing, an RN-Bachelor Science of Nursing, an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Master of Science in Nursing that have have enabled T4CL to address THR workforce shortages and seek out innovation and creativity in the delivery of system-wide education and ... Read More »
Research Brief
Q&A: How Can L&D Use Alliances to Extend Its Capabilities?
There have always been partnerships and alliances in the business world, but their use as strategic business tools really accelerated in 1990, when Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad introduced the concept of core competency – the idea that companies should only do those things that create significant competitive advantage and outsource, through partnerships and alliances, those things that they have to do but that aren’t “core” (The Core Competence of the Corporation, Harvard Business Review, 1990). Similarly, learning organizations have to think about the needs of the business, concentrate on the areas where they can add the most value ... Read More »
Case Study
Amway Case Study: Building Leadership Capacity through Corporate/College Partnerships
Amway, a leading global direct-selling firm, is committed to creating a performance driven culture that facilitates employee development. In 2008, Amway Global Learning & Development discovered a significant gap in the people leadership skills among first-line leaders. They also realized there was no global support network for first-line leaders, limited hands-on experiences to build people leadership skills, and no common language or approach around leadership at Amway. They recognized that this situation was negatively affecting employee engagement and performance, and that they had to address it quickly.
Amway’s Global L&D decided a new learning program was needed, which they ... Read More »
