The Push To Know More and Do More Lifts Industry’s Learning Curve
No longer just a hodgepodge of technical courses that individual employees take at the local college campus or from the association provider to sustain a professional license, training and development have a new focus. Pushed by clients, new employees and market pressures, industry firms are finding that it is good business to directly invest in work force development.
"Twenty years ago, it was just training," says Brewer, a veteran of Motorola Corp., an early proponent of the corporate university concept. "Now, it is so much more."