In a report written by Dr. Eilif Trondsen of SRI Consulting Buisness Intelligence, the upside of using virtual worlds in corporate collaborative situations is extremely evident.

Against the backdrop of dismal trends in the broader job market, information technology (I.T.) employment surged in February. According to the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB), which tracks I.T.

Brandon Hall Research has been investigating the usefulness of virtual words as platforms for learning. To this end, its team recently had a meeting in Second Life.

If you have a dispersed workforce, or would like to provide partners, suppliers or customers distributed around the world with access to your training content, you should consider a learning management system available in the appropriate »

According to a new whitepaper entitled “Customer Relationships in a Web 2.0 World,” companies are losing influence with their customers. As customers face an increasingly complex and fast-changing world, they want help.

For CIOs who are in the midst of negotiating their budgets or feel they are being squeezed by CEOs looking to cut I.T. costs, the data reported in Accenture’s second global IT performance benchmark research may help them fight back.

Although management represents a small percentage of the corporate workforce, it gets the lion’s share of the corporate training budget, according to Bersin & Associates’ justpublished 2008 Corporate Learning Factbook.

For the first time, the “digital shadow” — the amount of digital information being generated about people — surpasses the amount they create themselves.

“Onboarding” is a major factor that influences employee retention and worker productivity, according to a new report from the Aberdeen Group that was sponsored by SkillSoft.

According to Softscape’s third annual “State of the Global Talent Nation” survey report, an unprecedented 94 percent of this year’s respondents do not believe that their personnel are adequately prepared to meet their companies’ future goals.