It’s already become an old saw: talent is the key source of competitive economic advantage in the 21st Century. So the rise of new learning opportunities driven by technological change will have a major impact on economic competitiveness of companies and communities. At the recent “University Unbound” conference of the New England Board of Higher […]
CRM is “customer relations management,” a type of database that tracks customer preferences and activities to enable businesses to fine tune the way they relate to those customers. Tech Crunch has a post today on MyEdu, a web-based company that has brought a CRM approach to higher education, and is seeking to strengthen students’ abilities […]
TechCrunch reports on Facebook’s collaboration with General Assembly to create an online training opportunity for the social network’s app developers: The new co-designed curriculum will teach aspiring developers how to develop social applications on the Facebook platform. “Facebook is happy to be working with General Assembly to help developers and would-be developers learn how to […]
We’ve ruminated a fair amount about the profound implications changes in information technology have for learning and higher education. This week, Inside Higher Education’s Joshua Kim looks at how changes in higher education are affecting campus information technology services. What would be the advantages of re-branding our IT Departments as Collaboration Departments? Aligning to How […]
This according to Springwise: Engaging and motivating employees to work hard is a challenge for companies large and small, and we’ve seen solutions ranging from a site that tracks morale to a company that uses upgradable lodgings as a way to reward its interns. Recently, however, New Hampshire employee recognition specialist A&R Sawyer came up […]
According to Tech investor Peter Fenton, companies will increasing turn to social media and gaming to better understand their business models and bottom lines. Tech Crunch has the story: [The] consumerization of enterprise is about software companies re-focusing on ease of use and a top-down ability to be flexible and to quickly adopt those always-there […]
