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The Business of Learning
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The Business of Learning

How to Manage Corporate Training to Improve Your Bottom Line

David L. Vance
Poudre River Press, 2010

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Caterpillar University, rated 2004’s best corporate university, is one of the world’s leading business learning institutions. When CAT U first began operations in 2001, David Vance was its primary architect, guiding light and visionary – a business-oriented leader who served as its president to 2007. In this “MBA in a box” for chief learning officers (CLOs), he draws on his valuable experience in planning, setting up and running CAT U. Vance discusses the importance of establishing a strong business case for corporate learning and shows how to make such education a strategic contributor to any organization. He details how CLOs can maximize the return for every dollar spent on their corporate learning activities. getAbstract predicts that Vance’s big (500-plus pages) book is certain to be a lasting standard in the learning industry.

Take-Aways

  • Manage your corporate learning and development (L&D) like a business.
  • Corporate learning can contribute bottom-line results and strategic progress to firms that use education as a business tool.
  • But many corporate training professionals are not familiar with business basics.

About the Author

David Vance, founder and former president of Caterpillar University, consults with companies on corporate learning through his firm, Manage Learning LLC. In 2006, Chief Learning Officer magazine named Vance its CLO of the Year .

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