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The CLO’s Critical Role: Nine Areas for Action

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was published in December 2004 on CLOmedia.com. This strategy involves a significant use of outsourcing, offshoring, temporary contract employees and sometimes hiring fully competent individuals so that no additional training and development is needed. Invest only the minimum. But it is not that simple.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Rapid eLearning

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Bersin and Associates in the year 2004 created the term “rapid eLearning”. In terms of affordability, both rapid eLearning development training and the cost to own and manage a rapid eLearning development system is significantly lower than outsourcing an eLearning program development. Nothing “rapid” about that, as you can see.

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Learning During Times of Growth

CLO Magazine

Although financial scrutiny remains, an executive mindset focused on both operational rigor in learning and ROI is part of the “new normal,” and many learning executives are reinvigorated about their jobs and the contribution their learning organizations can make to their companies’ efforts to increase market share and shareholder value.

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Future Trends in e-Learning

Vignettes Learning

According to the "ASTD 2004 State of the Industry Report," technology-delivered learning has increased each year since 1999. Projections for 2004 indicate a 5.8 The main driver behind the blur of these traditional corporate lines is the growth of ROI analysis or the good old, "So why am I spending this money?"

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Back to the Future

The Learning Circuits

In 2004, there were about 75,000 corporate training professionals in this country. The trends towards off-shoring, outsourcing, downsizing and capsizing indicate that by 2008 there will be about 45,000 of us left. Most of us will be working for companies outside the corporation.