Today, using CD-ROMs, synchronous and asynchronous methods of total online learning, and blended learning in the classroom, not only can training dollars be saved but learning can also be made more effective.

Reducing costs, including the costs associated with corporate learning, is a major imperative for global organizations today. Also, companies are under pressure to streamline business processes, implement global standards, and transmit uniform best practices across a widely disparate enterprise.

E-learning is promising as a solution for companies struggling with these challenges. Increasingly, executives are utilizing this tool to drive improvements in employee performance, productivity, and efficiency. When aligned strategically with their business goals and strategies, it can help organizations reduce costs, increase speed to profit, extend knowledge consistently across the enterprise, and accelerate the effectiveness of both employees and subcontractors.

Reducing Costs

e-learning reduces travel expenses and time, drastically decreasing the costs of learning delivery. In addition, by allowing learners to test out of and skip areas they already know so that they can focus on areas where they have knowledge gaps, e-learning speeds the learning process and reduces overall learning time.

Speed to Profit

Whether a company is introducing new products, expanding into new markets, or implementing enterprise-wide programs and platforms, e-learning enables a company to circulate information faster and to a broader audience, thus promoting time-to-market, earlier revenue streams, and enhanced competitiveness.

Enterprise Knowledge

e-learning ensures quality and consistency in learning and knowledge across geographically dispersed organizations. It minimizes the geographic barriers to communications, making anytime-anywhere learning accessible to the organization's people around the world. Also, by enabling organizations to measure and certify the extent of knowledge acquired by their people, it reinforces organizations' corporate commitment to the personal growth and development of their people.