Like death and taxes, you can’t escape upgrades to Windows. Your organization’s IT department could decide to convert the workforce to the Windows 8 operating system before you know it. Unless the organization just upgraded to Windows 7, that day might be quite soon—and the changeover could become one of the organization’s most ambitious learning initiatives. Will you be ready to implement the changeover? Here’s a plan that will help ...

While there are dozens of solutions for managing projects, managing human beings is a bit trickier. So CIO.com asked dozens of IT executives and project managers for their suggestions on how to keep tabs on what your direct reports and team members are working on, how best to monitor their progress and ways to quickly identify and prevent potential problems. Their top seven suggestions appear below. 7 Ways Project Managers ...

Workforce productivity can increase by significant margins when a business allows employees to use their smartphones and laptops for work. As a result, companies worldwide are establishing BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) policies. The results can be impressive. For example, Intel Corp. announced in March that its BYOD policy generated about 5 million hours of productivity gains last year. This translates to 57 minutes per employee per workday. As of the end of ...

Logical Operations and Communispond, sister companies, today released Workplace Series, a product line designed to transform today’s professional into tomorrow’s leader. Their decades of experience in developing quality training programs have helped more than a half million business professionals worldwide become highly effective at their jobs, advance their careers, and experience greater professional fulfillment. Workplace Series includes over 60 unique instructor-led courses that cover the skills and knowledge required of ...

Logical Operations today announced that it is the recipient of the Vega Cisco Learning Distributor of the Year in The Americas Award. Cisco unveiled the winners of its 2012 Regional Learning Partner Awards at its Global Learning Partner Conference, Jan. 23, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico. Cisco Learning Partner Awards are designed to recognize exemplary Learning Partners that demonstrate best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry. Areas ...

Learning Solutions Provider, Logical Operations announces today the release of LogicalLABS, a new virtual lab learning environment that provides students with hands-on, practical experience within actual (not simulated) software applications. “Partnering with Terillian was a natural fit, as the leader in virtual labs technologies; they were able to bring the Logical Operations courseware into a live learning environment that benefits the training organization, instructor, and student.” Jeff Felice, Chief Operating ...

Learning Solutions Provider, Logical Operations announces today the release of a Windows 8 instructor-led training curriculum series, that includes Microsoft® Windows® 8 Tablet for Business Use, Using Microsoft® Windows® 8, Microsoft® Windows® 8: Transition from Windows® 7, and coming soon a 1-day course, Microsoft® Windows® 8 and Office 2013 Transition. This release gives training organizations the opportunity to be first to market with Windows 8 training. The Windows 8 release ...

Our experience is showing that a really good instructor can usually overcome the deficiencies that may exist in a multi-platform training program's curriculum or its delivery mechanism. Moreover, unfortunately, even the strongest program can be undermined if the instruction is inadequate. The instructor is a critical make-or-break element in any connected classroom – and an element that can sometimes be undervalued when a training program becomes too narrowly focused on ...