SmartBiz IT Research Library

PODCAST - This podcast will discuss how midmarket CIOs can make innovation part of their daily process and as a result gain executive support for the value IT brings to the business.
Posted: November 17, 2008 | Premiered: November 17, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Environment | Business Process Management | Business Process Reengineering

PODCAST - Our IT careers expert will discuss four qualities midmarket CIOs should have to become better leaders in both their IT organization and the executive suite.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Premiered: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Adaptive Enterprise | Business Processes | CIOs | Information Management | Leadership | Management Change | Strategic Planning

WEBCAST - This webinar is designed to help organizations understand the problems and challenges of business learning, as well as ROI of comprehensive e-learning program.
Posted: September 5, 2008 | Premiered: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | eLearning | eLearning Software | Training and Educational Services

CASE STUDY - EMBARQ Corporation needed to train and certify team members in order to maintain Cisco Gold Certification. They chose Skillsoft's Live Learning to provide CCNA and CCDA training. EMBARQ now trains over 550 employees annually.
Posted: September 5, 2008 | Published: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Certification Programs | Communications Systems | Employee Monitoring | LMS | Training and Educational Services | Virtual Offices

CASE STUDY - In this case study, Wunderman needed to provide employees with global, consistent access to an e-learning program. Learn how they found their solution by using SkillSoft's SkillPort as their learning management platform.
Posted: September 5, 2008 | Published: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Certification Programs | Courseware | Education Industry | Educational Software | eLearning | LMS | Performance Testing | Training and Educational Services

CASE STUDY - In this case study, FM Global needed to expand their training program. Learn how they worked with SkillSoft to develop custom courses covering a variety of topics such as fire prevention, boiler maintenance, and preparation for floods and hurricanes.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Courseware | Education Industry | Educational Software | LMS | Risk Management | Training

CASE STUDY - In this case study, learn how the Army deployed a comprehensive elearning solution to deliver Web-based training and professional development to all Active Duty Army, Reserve Component, and Department of the Army civilian personnel using SkillSoft.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 3, 2008


Topics:  Certification Programs | Education Industry | Educational Software | eLearning | Information Technology End Users | Libraries and Archives | LMS | Training and Educational Services | Web-Based Self-Service

WHITE PAPER - This case study takes a close look at one of the largest learning on-demand solutions in the marketplace today – Learning@IBM Explorer, the IBM learning portal. It also discusses the latest trend in learning and development (L&D).
Posted: August 15, 2008 | Published: August 15, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | eLearning | eLearning Software | Enterprise | LMS | Mobile Device Management | Project Management | RSS

WHITE PAPER - This research report looks at learning strategies and the use of e-learning technologies in high-growth companies by focusing on the experiences of six organizations. It also includes an annual benchmarking study on trends in corporate learning practices.
Posted: August 15, 2008 | Published: August 15, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | eLearning | eLearning Software | Knowledge Management | LMS | Project Management | Training and Educational Services

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper discusses a different culture that is developing for learning and training departments. This new cultures prime concern is meeting monetary and fiscal targets.
Posted: August 15, 2008 | Published: August 15, 2008


Topics:  Customer Service | eLearning Software | Employee Monitoring | ROI | Staffing | Training

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the qualities of business agility, the challenges that restrain agility and how leadership, technology, business-critical information and other organizational aspects can improve an organization's agile ability.
Posted: April 8, 2008 | Published: April 8, 2008


Topics:  Business Models | Change Management | Communications Networks | Executive Management | Information Management | Regulatory Compliance | Senior Management | Service-Oriented Architecture | Workforce Planning

WHITE PAPER - Green sustainability is becoming a highly visible part of the corporate strategy. Read this paper to learn how your organization can generate significant cost savings by integrating a green project into an overall change management initiative.
Posted: February 21, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Change Management | Corporate Governance | Environmental Compliance | IT Spending | Server Virtualization | Telecommuting | Training | Training Software

WHITE PAPER - This analyst report explains that when a learning strategy is linked with a human capital strategy the results can be significant. Read this paper to learn how to link learning and training initiatives to form a broader human capital strategy.
Posted: November 1, 2007 | Published: November 3, 2005


Topics:  Educational Software | eLearning | eLearning Software | Employee Monitoring | Human Resources Service Providers | LMS | Staffing | Training and Educational Services

WHITE PAPER - Technology-based learning enables organizations to reach more employees, improve training and yield positive results over an extended period of time. Learn more about the benefits of e-learning in this whitepaper.
Posted: November 1, 2007 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Careers | eLearning | eLearning Software | Employee Monitoring | Executive Management | Leadership | Staffing | Training and Educational Services

WHITE PAPER - This paper details the results of a survey of more than 200 employees from a wide range of organizations, aimed to discover if there is a disconnect between employer's training opportunities and employee's learning needs.
Posted: November 1, 2007 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  eLearning | eLearning Software | Employee Monitoring | Knowledge Management | Sales | Staffing | Training and Educational Services