Based at KCA DEUTAG's headquarters in Aberdeen, Scotland, Ian MacKenzie, Director of Projects, Technical Services, and Business Excellence says, -œOur staff often work on 28-day or 35-day rotation, either on a rig or in a remote geographic location. This makes traditional classroom training unworkable.

"Very few people within our organisation were formally trained as project managers, and many learnt their key skills whilst on the job. For this reason, we took the decision to invest in helping individuals gain formalised best practices through an introductory APM Certificate and the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner."

The new online courses are available to all senior or supervisory managers who are currently managing projects or are likely to do so.



MacKenzie continues, "We selected ILX for two key reasons. First their ability to deliver the APM certificate and PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner courses in eLearning format with materials that were well presented and easily understood by everyone. Second, ILX's easy user interface encourages people to use the web-hosted training. In fact, we ran an initial test across some of our remote bases and found that individuals wanted to start the course immediately."

Eddie Kilkelly, Chief Operating Officer at the ILX Group, comments, "We are delighted to be supporting KCA DEUTAG in delivering fast and flexible project- management training. This specific programme illustrates how eLearning can be rapidly rolled out to a geographically dispersed team without negatively impacting productivity. Experience has shown us that eLearning also fits with employees' interest levels and attention spans."