SkillSoft has launched two online portals

SkillSoft has launched two online portals to provide employees with easy access to a wide variety of data relating to leadership and project management.

Called KnowledgeCentres, each portal contains pre-packaged content to address the critical information needs of employees undertaking that specific task. By the end of 2006 these initial two KnowledgeCentres will be extended to 14; each covering a key business or technology area.

One of the early adopters of the project management KnowledgeCentre is Deloitte, the global consulting giant, with more than 100,000 employees worldwide. Commenting on the portal, Candy Haynes, director of learning consulting at Deloitte said:

Project management is an essential skill for us as an organisation. Through the KnowledgeCentre approach, we are able to provide a wealth of learning assets in a very intuitive and efficient form to our consultants who may have varying learning needs. By empowering them, we can provide an even higher level of service to our clients around the world.

Employees are playing an increasingly strategic role in supporting key business objectives, but they constantly need to keep up-to-speed with new developments so effective training is critical, said Kevin Young, vice president of SkillSoft Corporation and general manager of SkillSoft EMEA. However, time for learning is minimal so it has to be as effective and relevant as possible to meet the requirements of individual employees. KnowledgeCentres have been created specifically to meet these diverse organisation and job-specific objectives and to allow individuals to meet their daily on-demand information needs.

Elliott Masie, founder and president of The MASIE Center, an international e-lab and think tank dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology added:

A major challenge that learning professionals are struggling with today is how to place the great abundance of content that is available to them into context for the needs of many different learners. The simple concept of courses on a learning management system is no longer sufficient to address this challenge. Today, the issue is much more about how to bring the learning into the flow of daily work and support the unplanned learning needs of fast-moving organisations.

KnowledgeCentres represent one of five elements making up SkillSoftís new Enterprise Learning Connection system. The other elements cover blended learning; content development, competency mapping and virtual classrooms.

For further details about KnowledgeCentres and/or the Enterprise Learning Connection system contact Kay Baldwin-Evans at kay_baldwinevans@skillsoft.com

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