Considers the issues faced by training and HR managers wanting to use electronic distribution of training courses and materials. Provides strategies that will embrace the disparate technologies that will exist throughout an organization and be ready to accept new technologies as they appear....

In response to the challenge to make learning more flexible while at the same time maintaining the positive qualities of classroom and campus‐based settings, the TeleTOP Initiative at the University of Twente has grown from a faculty initiative to an internationally recognised Web‐based...

Managers now view e‐learning as an important instrument for obtaining skill‐based organisational outcomes. Not all organisations are likely to implement this training strategy, however, because there are significant trade‐offs involved in terms of both costs and benefits. This article...

As employees become more globally and technically savvy, it is inevitable that e‐learning finds its way into the practice of intercultural training. After a decade of providing customized face‐to‐face intercultural training, Cendant Mobility’s intercultural experts are responding to the...

Blended solutions for training are growing in popularity, but are they more than just a combination of a range of “real” learning techniques? Is it a learning approach in its own right? Clerical Medical put the new approach to the test. Attracted by the possibility of shortening...

TATA Interactive Systems (TIS), which has one of the world’s largest teams for the design and development of custom‐built e‐learning solutions, is committed to achieving the most exacting quality standards. Towards the end of last year, TIS became the first company providing custom‐built...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively investigate, through literature review of past studies and an in‐field case study, three different hypotheses regarding women working in the IT sector and their career and promotional aspirations. Design/methodology/approach – An...

Purpose – This paper aims to review characteristics associated with digital natives and digital immigrants and explores selected research studies related to information and communication technology. Some of the challenges facing the twenty‐first century in training and developing our future...

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to explore the perception of Iranian sample managers and employees from state‐owned organizations on benefits, barriers, and desire to telecommute based on the context of Iran using descriptive analysis. Design/methodology/approach – To address...

Reports on the reasons for failure in IT applications. Looks at typical cases of failure and defines success factors. Concludes that a range of human and technical factors interplay together, to produce project failure. Offers general guidance for project success, with emphasis on management and...