Enterprises are growing geographically and world is being perceived flatter than ever before. Most organizations consider learning requirements critical, as it is generally proportional to the productivity of an employee. Better-trained...
and skilled workforce is always an asset. However, geographical spread of employees is a hurdle for organizations seeking to impart training. In order to reach and manage the scale, a clearly defined governing infrastructure along with best learning practices is essential to an enterprise. An important part of any learning methodology is to assess the measure of learning effectiveness. There are various distance-learning tools available in the market that not only make learning better but also ensure cost optimization. It is important to have a clear, associative, scalable, and reliable infrastructure plan that supports the chosen distance learning method. This paper provides a balanced view of popular synchronous and asynchronous learning methods and helps in identifying an optimal distance learning methodology keeping in view the distributed employee strength. Guidelines advocated would facilitate enterprises in selecting a tool with the right blend of features required for effective distance education, aid in performing gap analysis and consistently improve on its distance learning programs.
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In an enterprise, there is an enormous amount of dependency on the training philosophy, methodology and its execution to consolidate and enrich manpower skills. It depends on how well an enterprise is able to train its employees to utilize the...
same in an optimized manner and gain advantage in today's competitive environment. It is challenging to train the entire workforce due to the geographical spread. Technology plays a pivotal role in this scenario as do numerous learning management systems and web conferencing solutions. In order to make distance education effective, it is important to have the right blend of technology and architecture implementation based on specific needs and characteristics of an enterprise. This paper evaluates and provides a balanced view of existing popular web conferencing architectures. Our experts investigate and advocate a scalable distributed optimized architecture that can meet unstructured training needs of an enterprise whose workforce is spread across diverse geographic locations.
Reproduced with permission of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
Enterprise adoption of Web 2.0 (also known as Enterprise 2.0) enables stakeholders of an enterprise to use Web 2.0 to communicate, collaborate, contribute and participate. Web 2.0 adoption, however, poses a challenge as it is in the formative...
stage. Our white paper guides an enterprise to adopt Web 2.0 technologies. Our expert identifies the challenges of enterprise Web 2.0 adoption and recommends an iterative adoption model to address the challenges.
In the Flat World, historical sources of advantage have diminished in value to the point that they are now becoming irrelevant. We believe that sustainable competitive advantage in the future will accrue from investing in people to build organizational capabilities.
Personalization is a systematic approach to treating customers as individuals. In this paper, Infosys' experts outline a method to define the personalization strategy for a portal. The personalization strategy consists of identifying the elements of the...
portal that can be personalized, the facts about users that can be used to drive personalization and the rules that relate one to the other. The authors propose a Personalization Maturity Model (PMM) to identify areas where personalization can be improved to attain the next level of maturity.
Organizations have traditionally viewed the enterprise application upgrade initiatives as transactional events of little strategic importance. They often do not have an upgrade strategy or even if there is one, it is hardly aligned with their...
business / financial / IT / operational strategies. Infosys believes that an assessment-based structured approach can help organizations to establish an enterprise application upgrade strategy.
While implementing portals, the focus is often only on technology. It is assumed that the portal is yet another IT application with the usual execution and operational dimensions. However, portals involve softer issues which, when...
ignored, lead to unsuccessful implementations. These issues relate to change management and the governance model for managing change.
Enterprises have structured as well as unstructured information. Structured information is inherently more manageable than unstructured information. However, managing unstructured enterprise information in multimedia formats is a key market enabler and differentiator.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings on 'Enterprise IT Perspectives' (Oct - Dec, 2006).
Mergers and Acquisitions bring together different sets of people, processes and technologies with the objective of creating a larger and unified enterprise. The enterprise benefits from the synergies of merging companies by consolidation, rationalization...
and integration of people, processes and technologies of both organizations. The post-merger integration of IT systems faces challenges as there are few frameworks that take a consolidated view of IT in alignment with processes and people. This paper discusses Enterprise Application (EA) imperatives for an organization during a merger or acquisition. It focuses on various aspects of application integration that must be correctly assessed to create a unified enterprise.