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Interactyx Limited's TOPYX is Named Best of Elearning! 2009 Award Winner

We are proud to announce that Interactyx Limited’s eLearning solution, TOPYX®, was named a Best of Elearning! 2009 award winner by Elearning! Magazine. TOPYX is an affordable eLearning 2.0 Software as a Service (SaaS) solution with integrated social learning, mobile learning and eCommerce functionality fulfilling the modern eLearning needs for corporate training, academic institutions, and small to midsize businesses. “We would like to thank all of the voters and editors of Elearning! Ma… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on November 11, 2009 at 3:39pm — No Comments

Informal Learning 2.0

In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and knocking down the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. Networks are ushering in new ways of doing business. Corporate approaches to learning have to change as well. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices – let’s call them informal learning 2.0 – in order to… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 21, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Learning Tools in Tough Economic Times

In tough economic times, finding money for professional development of your staff can be a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be, given the proliferation of inexpensive or free web applications for personal and workplace learning. It’s sometimes assumed that learning tools means tools specifically dedicated to learning and often we overlook the value in ordinary tools. This duality is what makes these tools so powerful – because they are not separate tools you have to use but ones that are famil… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 14, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Franchise 2.0: Turn traditional learning on its head

When [Jim Sullivan] I’m not writing a monthly column for readers of Nation’s Restaurant News and NRN.com, I have a day job designing leadership, sales-building and service-energizing training programs for managers and crew at foodservice and retail chains worldwide. Many companies and customers are curious how social-media sites will affect how foodservice training programs will be designed and delivered to Gen Next. The short answer is: a lot. Read the full article here:… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 12, 2009 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Affordably Boost Revenue with a Real-Time Collaborative Sales University

Traditional sales orientation for new and experienced representatives provide your revenue producers with periodic “core dumps” of key messaging, market positioning and updated best practices to effectively sell to customers. The time between these meetings is focused on managing the progression of tactical activities to attain revenue projections. The sales management processes center on the execution of potentially flawed, misaligned or sub-optimized activities that extend the time required to… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on October 5, 2009 at 11:10am — No Comments

Interactyx Limited Delivers Corporate Training Solutions

Interactyx Limited is pleased to announce corporate training solutions that target specific needs across all industries with TOPYX® Trainer, the affordable eLearning 2.0 Software as a Service (SaaS) solution with integrated social networking, mobile learning and eCommerce functionality. The TOPYX Trainer Corporate Solutions are highlighted below: Collaborative Corporate University Sales University Channel Partner… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 30, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

You Proposed a Corporate University: “Are You Nuts?”

Here is a quick story for you. A mid-market human resource executive schedules an agenda item for the next month’s senior management and board meeting. The proposal is to create a Corporate University to address meeting the company’s performance objectives. The initial reactions to this agenda item from the CEO, CFO and COO ranged from “are you nuts?”… “in today’s economic climate”…. ”expensive”….”limited appeal and utility”…. “no short-term benefits”….. to ”looks like it’s time to look for new… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 29, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Why are Web 2.0 technologies still bleeding edge in corporate training functions?

A recent report of 700 learning professionals conducted by the American Society for Training & Development entitled Transforming Learning with Web 2.0 Technologies found that Web 2.0 technologies is still “bleeding edge” when used within corporate training functions. Only 9% of companies use Web 2.0 technologies in a major way within their learning function. My [Al Novas] last blog -… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 23, 2009 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Has Franchise Training Failed Your Customers and Franchisees?

With my nearly 20 years of professional experience within the franchising business arena, it is safe to say that the traditional and existing franchisor training has failed its two most important constituents: 1) Customers and 2) Franchisees. The central tenet for franchisors to provide immersive training around key events is flawed and the manual-based operations courses are outdated methods to deliver daily success. The inability to provide…(more)… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 16, 2009 at 3:22pm — No Comments

Franchise Training Fails Customers and Franchisees

With my [Bob Brogan] nearly 20 years of professional experience within the franchising business arena, it is safe to say that the traditional and existing franchisor training has failed its two most important constituents: 1) Customers and 2) Franchisees. The central tenet for franchisors to provide immersive training around key events is flawed and the manual-based operations courses are outdated methods to de… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 16, 2009 at 10:41am — No Comments

Collaboratories: How can you compete with the most innovative companies in the world?

In this week's Business Week magazine, its main article entitled Big Blue's Global Lab discusses how companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Proctor & Gamble and Eli Lilly are collaborating all over the world with their geographically disbursed offices, universities, governments and even other companies in their R&D efforts. IBM actually calls theirs "collaboratories" - with the potential to set up over 100 worldwide over the coming years. "The world is our lab now," states John E. Kelly… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on September 8, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

Stop Inefficient Corporate Training Efforts!

The ultimate objective for corporate training professionals is to provide learners with a continuous learning experience to increase proficiency and expertise to achieve desired business results. No small task for small and medium sized businesses as well larger corporations. Most companies have been constrained by their existing systems (e.g. antiquated LMS, stand-alone intranet applications, etc) or lack the tools to effectively deliver against this corporate training objective. The ability to… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 1, 2009 at 7:02pm — No Comments

Competency- Seek your opinion

Competency Mapping is a great technique for identifying the competencies, employees need and level of competencies the employees are required to possess. When we talk about competencies, we cannot say that an individual does not have competencies but 'the level' varies. To say that all individuals have competencies, what matters is the level. We can explain the competency concept as an individual person who wishes to be a teacher in a subject biology requires knowledge of biology, has the abilit… Continue

Added by Shulagna Sarkar on August 23, 2009 at 7:31am — No Comments

Competency Management- The Growing Acceptance

Glimpses from the recent past have revealed that many reputed organizations had been following a trend of hiring people from the same family. Job posts were handed over to the next generation as a legacy but this has become obsolete now. With competition revolving us all around and frequent changes obscuring us, the organizations meet the challenges to subsist as a leading organization. In the rat race of emerging as one of the foremost powers in the field; organizations are confronting an assor… Continue

Added by Shulagna Sarkar on August 23, 2009 at 7:18am — No Comments

Institutional Branding

BRANDING: Concept “Whats in a name? That’s which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”, said Shakespeare. Todays Businesses are all running on the grounds of the names, as most of the Customers prefer a particular name because of the reliability the company has been able to build among its customers. A brand is a collection of perceptions in the mind of the consumers and resides in their minds. It propels them with a very high-perceived association value. A brand is not only a b… Continue

Added by Shulagna Sarkar on August 23, 2009 at 7:12am — No Comments

Finding Nirvana for the Small and Mid-Market HR Executive: Addressing the 8 Hidden E’s

Small and mid-market HR Executives face a daunting challenge in providing transformational leadership with limited/reduced budgets and resources. These executives must perform superhuman feats to address their organization's key needs to achieve business objectives by addressing 8 hidden E's: - Engage different employees and constituent groups, - Enable distributed employees in an economic and efficient manner - Effective deployment of "real-time" changes in product,… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on August 21, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Cash for LMS clunkers - Why are corporations dumping their legacy learning management systems and where are they going…

In the current edition of Chief Learning Officer magazine, Josh Bersin, the well respected founder of Bersin & Associates indicates that of those large corporations that have learning management systems (LMSs), almost one in three will be dumping their legacy LMS like a 1971 Chevy Vega, without any incentives from the U.S. government. Why is this happening? The employee - the learner - is demanding it What are employees saying? Check out the full blog post here:… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 11, 2009 at 9:59am — 1 Comment

Understanding the Benefits of eLearning 2.0

What is eLearning 2.0? How can I incorporate social networking and mobile learning tools? How easy is it to get started with eLearning software?

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Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on August 7, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

Talent Managers: Top 5 Uses of Web 2.0 to Make Organization Best in Class

The facts are starting to impressively pile up for Talent Management professionals to adopt Web 2.0 tools across the Talent Management Lifecycle. Any HR executive looking to crack the code on positively impacting their organization’s productivity at an affordable cost using Web 2.0 needs to take a serious look at TOPYX from Interactyx. Wow, how can someone be so confident that their solution can enable a best in class transformation in a matter of months. Easy, we are doing it today. Last month… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on July 23, 2009 at 11:48am — No Comments

MX Logic Chooses TOPYX as Training Solution

Interactyx Limited is proud to announce today that the TOPYX® eLearning 2.0 software as a service (SaaS) solution with integrated social networking technologies, has been chosen by MX Logic, Inc. as their training delivery platform to its strategic partners. The two-year agreement will provide MX Logic, the preeminent Web and email security provider with more than 35,000 business customers, with an extranet corporate eLearning training delivery… Continue

Added by Jeffrey A. Roth on July 22, 2009 at 1:51pm — No Comments

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