Coloring the Ideal Business Transformation Solution

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Frank Slezak

Crayola, a Hallmark-owned company with headquarters in Easton, Pennsylvania, realized in 2004 that it needed to replace its aging legacy software systems. Its strategy was to implement an enterprise system that would be the single source of their manufacturing, inventor... More »

Superior Customer Service Boosts Market Performance

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Aparna Nancherla

Great customer service is an ideal that is so frequently bandied about in companies that it should go without saying, right? The truth is that the time and energy that companies invest in this area is often what separates the high performers from the low performers. Sev... More »

Trimming the Fat: Using a Practical Eye for an Academic Process

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Shawn Rosler

What makes good training? It's a question that is literally as old as training itself and one that has never been given a truly concrete answer. So often we are flooded with the things that we must do to design effective training. In my 10 years of training experience, ... More »

Shoot for PAR!

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Dan Barr

It's safe to say that many learning and development professionals may be hesitant to roll out a training program that 99 percent of their team will never achieve. That's just what golf pros face - less than 1 percent of their students will ever realize the goal of shoot... More »

Inside the Training Courtroom

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Michael Cohen

In Training on Trial by James and Wendy Kirkpatrick, the reader is presented with the idea of viewing his training endeavors as though they were part of a legal case. Throughout the book, the Kirkpatricks use the legal trial metaphor to explain how learning professional... More »