Chief Learning Officer: CLO Feature Illuminates the Benefits of Goal Alignment Models; Robbins-Gioia Management Architecture Sustains Entrepreneurial Spirit

Business Wire, May 16, 2006

CHICAGO -- Alignment describes the continuous process of mobilizing enterprise resources to execute company objectives. Learning is a significant player in the business alignment equation. The Learning Solutions feature in the May issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine discusses the importance of HR as a stakeholder and enabler of learning and the execution of optimal workforce development.

Without equal participation between the learning and corporate strategy organizations, workforce alignment will not occur. A case study on Robbins-Gioia University explains how its approach to professional development had to change after the company was acquired by a large firm.