How corporate learning drives competitive advantage
Editor’s note: Analyst Josh Bersin looks at how learning strategy can impact business performance – he also talks through the Bersin maturity model for corporate learning.
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State of the Nation 2013 finds businesses should retain and train for future success
Editor’s note: Research into skills in the UK’s tourism and hospitality sector shows leadership is number one requirement.
The School of Open launches its first courses
Editor’s note: Another EU initiative worth a look – the School of Open now offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age.
Consumer Classroom: new consumer education website for teachers
Editor’s note: The European Commission has launched Consumer Classroom – a new website for teachers providing quality teaching resources and interactive tools – a useful resource.
7 years later, another look at Twitter
Editor’s note: To mark Twitter’s birthday this week, this article looks at the early days, where the service is now and what the future holds.
Big data – opportunity or threat for HR and L&D?
Big data is both an opportunity and threat for HR teams, according Nick Holley, director…
The future of leadership development
Nick Holley, director of the Henley Business School Centre for HR Excellence, has produced an…
Andrew Marritt’s day one review of the HR Tech Europe Spring Warm-Up
Andrew Marritt chaired day one of the HR Tech Europe Spring Warm-Up in London. Here…
Social Learning: from theory to practice
Editor’s note: Julian Stodd explores the realities of putting social learning into practice. I enjoyed this line: ‘In social learning, it’s not so much the outcomes of the conversations that we are interested in, but rather the conversation itself: the narrative that we build that shows where we agree, where we disagree and how we resolved it. It’s the thought process itself as much as the story that counts.’
10 apps to increase your HR work productivity
Editor’s note: A two-part article including useful tools for working on secure documents whilst outside the firewall.
Microsoft plays up new Office collaboration tools to boost Windows 8
Editor’s note: Microsoft hopes that collaboration tools built into Office 2013 will give enterprise customers reason to also adopt Windows 8.
Demand Media acquires CreativeBug in e-learning push
Editor’s note: Interesting to see the types of companies moving into the elearning space. Demand Media was built on content marketing, for example.
If engagement is left as a purely HR initiative, it will remain on the sidelines
Editor’s note: A look at who should be responsible for employee engagement in the organisation.
HR Tech Europe: Is HR sitting on a big data gold mine?
Live blog notes from Matthew Hanwell’s presentation to the HR Tech Europe spring conference, London.…
Slidedeck of the week: Cognition, decision, behaviour
This presentation on decision making was delivered by Dr Adrian Banks, a senior lecturer in…