Themen

International Growth

IMC Opens Office in San Francisco

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - With subsidiaries in Graz, London, Melbourne, Sibiu, and Zurich, IMC has mainly been present in Europe and Asia. Now, however, due to the global spread of the company's learning solutions, a higher demand for its service and support activities has risen in North and South America. » MORE

White Paper

Top Tips for Successful Talent Management

Cobham (UK), July 2013 - Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a provider of business applications and services, has commissioned a white paper that explores the increasing importance of -œtalent management- in the HR field. The paper looks at how an organisation can maximise efforts to attract, mould, and retain the best people in the current financial climate and as employee expectations continue to change. » MORE

SkillSet

Customer Success Story: British American Tobacco

London (UK), July 2013 - British American Tobacco recently implemented a new eRecruitment system based on the Kenexa 2x BrassRing platform. The company needed to find a way to train and support users - spread across more than 180 countries - and ensure that the new system was successfully adopted. » MORE

Workplace Health

CM Group Creates NHS-Endorsed Stress Training

Kim JenkinsBristol (UK), July 2013 - CM Group, a global leader in the field of innovative learning solutions comprising interactive eLearning and mLearning, has created Lighten Up's eLearning courses. These form part of a blended-learning programme to help address stress, improve the work-life balance of employees; and reduce the cost of absenteeism for employers. » MORE

For the Third Time

Hat-trick for Tata Interactive Systems

Mumbai (IN), July 2013 - Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is a strategic partner in enabling the success of key organizational initiatives of Fortune 500 companies. In 2013, TIS has again been placed among the top twenty global content-development companies - being honored for the third straight year. TrainingIndustry.com's annual global survey results confirm Tata Interactive Systems' supremacy in developing custom content. » MORE

Rollout

Jurys Inn's learners continue to "Grow" with Totara

London (UK), July 2013 - Jurys Inn is a hotel chain with over 1,900 employees working in a busy 24/7 environment in 35 locations across the UK and Ireland. With a growing distributed workforce comprising a young demographic, comprehensive and engaging learning was key to success. The rollout of Totara LMS across the organisation has had a dramatic impact: reduced payroll costs associated with learning and 1,840 users successfully trained through a blended program. » MORE

Helpful Tool

Into the Summer: The New Moodle GPS Course Format

Heidelberg (GER), July 2013 - On time for the summer season, Moodle users can now utilize location-based learning. The newly developed -œkamedia GPS Format Free-œ allows eLearning content to be displayed according to the geo-coordinates of the learner. This enables location-based mobile learning. » MORE

Growth across Europe

KPN Leverages Saba to Improve Competitiveness

Bracknell (UK), July 2013 - Saba, the provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, working with cloud partner Bloomville, has announced that KPN, a Dutch telecommunications and internet and communications technology (ICT) service provider, is leveraging the Saba Unified Learning Management Suite to standardise and optimise the training and development of its workforce. » MORE

Immersive Environment

Simulation-Based Training from Raytheon and MSC

Dallas, TX (USA), July 2013 - Raytheon Professional Services LLC (RPS), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has announced that Simulation-Based Training - its solution developed jointly with Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) - has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association (AHA). Simulation-Based Training will be available to the AHA's member hospitals and care organizations. » MORE

Easier and More Secure

Questionmark LTI Connector Enables Integration

Norwalk, CT (USA), July 2013 - Integration between the Questionmark® OnDemand assessment-management system and a wide range of learning-management systems is now easier and more secure thanks to the new LTI Connector for Questionmark OnDemand. With the connector, instructors and administrators who use Questionmark OnDemand to create, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests, exams, and surveys can use an LTI-compliant learning-management system to make these assessments available to their students. » MORE