Today, 10 years after its birth, most people in the industry think the HRO market is stuck in neutral, or even reverse.

Establishing truly effective partnerships requires executives to intentionally consider the importance of trust. Learning executives should position themselves, their organization, and their customers by deepening their relationship and turning them into

Northrup Grumman Vice President of Learning and Development Kathy Thomas must focus on learning and development on an enterprise scale while developing leaders, managing leadership, and leveraging learning technology.

The economic news isn't all bad. Training executives are discovering a variety of positives, including a fierce incentive to launch cost-saving initiatives they've been putting off. Suppliers are mighty eager to help.

Will the virtual world be the best place for learning? A research team at North Carolina State University has developed a new way to measure how "real" online virtual worlds can be.

2009 brings an array of new challenges for corporate learning and development executives: do more with fewer resources, identify new cost efficiencies, and align more closely with talent management.

As the economy continues to sour, how worried should you be about your learning organization? There is plenty to chew on in the new ASTD State of the Industry report.

Daisy Ng, senior vice president of talent management at Darden Restaurants, talks about building organizational capability, capacity, and engagement at Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, and Seasons 52.

Baby boomers may be hanging around in the workplace longer than imagined, which gives learning executives time to mine their brains for critical knowledge.

Learning becomes a community-wide idea at DaVita where each team member creates his personal credo and determines what's important to him. Learning Executives Briefing spoke with the leader of learning efforts at DaVita, Steve Priest. The company's effort