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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools. A skills catalogue also assists in deciding whether to recruit new staff or train current staff based on the cost to the business.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools. A skills catalogue also assists in deciding whether to recruit new staff or train current staff based on the cost to the business. Employee assignments.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up?

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Social Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

Origin Learning

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Such being the scenario, every dime counts, right? billion annually?

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. conduct useful research.

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Revolution in Workplace Learning

Tony Karrer

You can go to their site: [link] to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc. Likely I (and others in Work Literacy ) will be doing similar workshops over the next few months. If you are interested, but can't attend this workshop, then you might want to go to Work Literacy and go to Services to state your interest.

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Social Network Tools

Tony Karrer

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).