BOSTON, Feb. 12, 2007 — OutStart, the leading provider of eKnowledge software solutions for learning and knowledge-sharing, today announced that it will sponsor a live Webcast with Bersin & Associates titled “Building and Managing Learning Content: What’s Right for Your Organization,” Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 1:30 p.m. EST and Thursday, Feb. 15 at 8:30 a.m. EST.
Without proper content, learning initiatives fail. Bersin & Associates has just completed a new study that addresses this issue. The complimentary Webinar will review the key findings of the research helping its audience understand:
- The different approaches, or maturity levels, for building and managing content
- Challenges and strategies for an organization at each level
- What level is right for an organization, or department
Keynote presenter, Chris Howard: Chris Howard is a principal analyst at Bersin & Associates. Truly one of the pioneers of elearning industry, Chris has an extensive background in learning and enterprise systems technology. Over the last five years, Chris has worked with hundreds of customers in the deployment of online learning solutions. He is recognized as an industry leader on the unique infrastructure issues that companies face as they embrace new paradigms for distributing and managing knowledge.
More on The Learning Content Maturity Model: The model describes five levels of organizational capacity for building and delivering learning content and other types of knowledge assets and establishes a framework for assessing an organization’s capacity for developing and managing learning content, and for determining if, when, and how you should seek to evolve your capacity to new levels of maturity and accommodate even more complex information management demands. Short case studies show how organizations are operating at each level.
About Bersin Associates:
Bersin & Associates is the leading provider of best-practices, trends, and benchmarking research in enterprise learning and talent management. With more than 25 years of experience in e-learning, training, and enterprise solutions, we provide a wide range of services, built around our unique What Works® research.
About OutStart:
OutStart eKnowledge software powers formal and on-demand learning, knowledge sharing and community/expert collaboration solutions that enable knowledge workers - employees, partners, and customers - to perform their roles far more efficiently and effectively. Customers like Empire BlueCross BlueShield, Tweeter, ING, Sara Lee, Steelcase, the U.S. Navy, Verizon, AgustaWestland and Unilever rely on OutStart to increase individual and organizational performance, improve knowledge transfer and lower operating costs. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., OutStart has offices throughout the US and Europe and can be found on the Web at www.outstart.com
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