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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. With the abundance of training and content development providers available, the search can be daunting. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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Reality Coaching – Real Coaching – A Case Study

Rapid BI

Was it that coaching really works or was it that companies started to outsource their training departments and as a consequence it was more cost effective to ‘train’ one on one? I have undertaken a wide range of coaching training with several ‘schools’ and found them all to add valuable ingredients.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The workers standing near him applauded.

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Case Study: Can a Work-at-Home Policy Hurt Morale?

Harvard Business Review

As general manager of the Noida, India, office of KGDV, a global knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, she had always encouraged healthy debate on her team, but she was surprised that her head of human resources, Vijay Nayak, and her top project manager, Matt Parker, were going at it in the hallway. “What was that all about?”

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What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from Automation

Harvard Business Review

Business operations people who have process and subject matter expertise but no programming experience can, with only a few weeks of training, start automating processes with RPA tools. One of us took the software training for Blue Prism , one of the leading RPA providers, and was able to automate a process in less than two hours.).

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

The question is: For which skills will the CEO build deep personal expertise, and which will they outsource to other founding team members?” That can come from case studies, meeting role models, learning-by-doing on course projects, and seeing peers take the plunge.” ” What about graduate school?

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The Boundaries Around Your Industry Are About to Change

Harvard Business Review

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. A new category means new skills: Suddenly, many of Lowe’s 240,000 retail employees must be able to talk software and apps, and know how to connect IRIS to all these other products, so the company is training them.