Purpose – This paper aims to explore potential opportunities for corporate learning and development functions to play a strategic leadership role by meeting the professional development needs of company directors. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted an interview with Mr...

The growth of vocational skills competitions demonstrates an increased interest and popularity in companies, schools, colleges, and at regional, national and international levels. There are a number of significant benefits and also challenges associated with the competitions for individuals,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reveal the preliminary results of the IRMOS Project – an EC project to “extended geo‐learning”, delivered “in‐class”, “in‐house”, “in campus and in building” on an urban, suburban and global GPS basis....

Looks back at developments in the European business environment over the last ten years. Details some of the rapid changes, e.g. in use of electronic information systems. Also describes the introduction of advanced groupware systems and the differences in application across ational boundaries....

Competence development is seen as one of the critical strategic factors ensuring companies’ competitiveness. This has given rise to much discussion on how to create organisational and learning environments, such as learning organisations, which foster employees’ skills and sense of...