Online Competitive Advantage eLearning

Recruiting Talent ...service to your customers. A company's people are the new competitive advantage. Those responsible for staffing organizations are not only challenged with finding adequate potential employees, but finding the right people for the positions they need to fill. This course explores two aspects of recruitment as one component of a sustainable talent management strategy: attracting the talent needed  more...

Trade Secrets ...itors. Trade secrets are important because they provide a competitive advantage to their owners and may be the only viable form of legal protection available. They are protected under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), in those states that have adopted it, and by common law principles in others. Owners may take legal action if their trade secrets are violated. The single most effective step  more...

Supply Chain Management ...a vital role in the success of organizations, providing a competitive advantage in today's aggressive global marketplace. Without sound performance measurement and communication strategies, the relationship between you and your supplier can quickly deteriorate. This course explores many aspects of the organization-supplier relationship, including supplier selection and communication  more...

Sustaining Competitive Advantage ...Competitive Advantage In today's competitive business environment, being as good as the competition is not enough. An organization must devise strategies and develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies to set it apart from the competition. In this course business strategies are examined that can help a company gain and sustain competitive advantage. Companies build their strength  more...

Identifying Managing Customer Expectations Identifying & Managing Customer Expectations Understanding your customers' expectations and behaviors is essential to implementing a successful customer-focused service approach. But how do you get to the core of what your customers truly value? This course explores what customers value from a service perspective and how to identify their needs and expectations. It also examines how you can  more...

Creating Sustaining a Customer-Focused Organization Creating & Sustaining a Customer-Focused Organization To create a customer-focused organization, you need an in-depth understanding of what types of customer-focused tools and solutions are available. And you must know the level of customer focus that you're seeking to achieve. As a manager, you also need to know how to select the most appropriate implementation strategy that aligns with  more...

Marketing Essentials Product and Price Marketing Essentials: Product and Price How do you know what kind of products and services you should be marketing? How do you develop successful products and services? How do you promote and sell them? In today's highly competitive marketplace, these considerations are more important than ever. This course focuses on the answers to these questions and provides key insight into the  more...

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence ...ses unique data that, when used strategically, provides a competitive advantage. Data can reveal significant information about customer behavior and preferences, and provide insight into business processes that may ultimately influence what a company sells, how products are made, and how they are sold. Getting the most out of this data will determine the ultimate value it provides to the  more...

Competitive Marketing Strategies Conducting an Internal Analysis ... can it effectively deploy these to deliver a sustainable competitive advantage? In addition, you need to consider your marketing activities - how relevant are your marketing objectives, given your organization's current and potential capabilities? And what kind of profile does the marketing function have in your organization? Addressing questions like these will help you improve and develop  more...

Competitive Marketing Strategies Analyzing Competitors Competitive Marketing Strategies: Analyzing Competitors To formulate successful competitive marketing strategies for your organization, you need to understand your competitors. Who are your key rivals and what drives their marketing decisions? What do they do well and where do they miss the mark? Gathering and analyzing this kind of information is the starting point for developing effective  more...

Customer Driven Process Improvement Basic Framework ...to find ways to satisfy customers better and to develop a competitive advantage. This course describes these and other benefits and outlines a six-step framework for customer-focused improvement activities, which include identifying customer needs, translating those needs into process requirements, and implementing and sustaining improvements. This course also describes ways an organization can  more...

IT Strategy Essentials Business IT Strategy Alignment ... in new products and capabilities that give the company a competitive advantage. You can measure IT and business alignment by examining the extent to which IT supports business goals, and the degree to which business strategy capitalizes on IT capabilities. This course reviews the essential components of an IT-business aligned strategy. It also describes how to identify the level of IT and  more...

The Fundamentals of Globalization Strategies fo Globalization ...n the most lucrative markets. Opportunities for achieving competitive advantage abound in the global marketplace. However, you must be able to determine which strategies will harness those opportunities most effectively. The goal of any strategy is to create value for customers and the organization. This course outlines value-creation opportunities in the global marketplace, as well as the  more...

Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker Simulation ...e objectives of acting as a strategic thinker, sustaining competitive advantage, capitalizing on core competencies, becoming a strategic leader, deploying a strategic vision, and developing a talent strategy. The simulation Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker comprises three scenarios and is based on the SkillSoft Series "Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic  more...

Turn Your Life Experience Into College Credit ...ife Experience and Adult Education Expert how to gain the competitive advantage and advance your career goals and objectives! Does This Sound Like You? You will benefit from this course if you: Have or have not finished formal schooling Have been out of the paid workforce and are seeking new opportunities Have confidence in your abilities & skills Are interested in returning to school Are  more...

Build Your Own BIZ - Teamwork ...uild teams that perform well and help your company gain a competitive advantage. The class includes video, text, and downloadable resources. Description of Course Teamwork explores the following areas: The costs of teamwork The benefits of teamwork When not to use the team approach What makes teams work Putting your team together Laying the foundation for teamwork Giving the team what it needs  more...

How to Adopt Green Practices in Business and Gain a Competitive Advantage ...ant. How To Adopt Green Practices In Business And Gain A Competitive Advantage Whether you are a business owner, office manager, HR manager, business professional or ?green-team? project leader who wants to know how to get started with a sustainability program, this comprehensive e-learning course will give you the results you want. Unlike other sustainability courses, it includes how to  more...

The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay  more...

E-Learning Essentials Part 1 E-Learning and Successful Strategy ...in which an organization's human assets contribute to its competitive advantage. To identify key aspects of e-learning. To identify ways organizations benefit from e-learning. To identify reasons for having a clear e-learning strategy. To identify the need to link the e-learning strategy  more...

Building an E-Commerce Business Case This course provides the learner with information which addresses the relationship between costs and benefits. Learn To: Build Online Revenues. About B2B Consumer Transactions. About Sales and Services. About Online Customer Relationships. About the Virtual Value Chain. Audience: This course is intended for Managers and technical staff who are in a position to  more...

Diversity Managing Diversity in the Workplace ... for leading people toward using diversity as a source of competitive advantage. Learn To: Define diversity and its different facets. Identify business benefits of leveraging diversity. Identify aspects of culture that affect the workplace by using the lens model. Identify the three levels of culture as defined by Schein. Identify the four stages of individual and  more...

International Business Essentials Succeeding as a Global Manager ...Identify ways a Human Resources department can facilitate competitive advantage. Identify characteristics of a global manager. Identify methods for selecting candidates for international managers. Follow steps managers can take to solve problems cross-culturally. Implement strategies that global managers can use when managing cross-cultural conflict. Audience: Managers who want to  more...

Value Chain Management Managing a Value Chain ...management of elements of the value chain in order to win competitive advantage. It provides the learner with specific strategies to maximize the flow of products, services and information, and raw materials to the final point of consumption. It covers methods of winning cost advantage and achieving the value proposition, ways of maximizing collaboration within the value chain, competitive  more...

Total Quality Management Implementation and Tools ...ew competitor. It has been decided that to maintain their competitive advantage, Icon need to adopt a TQM system. As part of the team set up to implement the system, you have been asked to attend a meeting on whether or not the company is ready for this implementation. Also present at the meeting are Barbara Connor, Quality Assurance Director, Don Hamilton, Regional Vice-President of Sales, and  more...

Supply Chain Management Series The Supply Chain Management Series includes the following courses: Supply Chain Management: Principles and Concepts Supply Chain Management: Building a Sustained Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Management: Using Models To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Supply Chain Management Building a Sustained Competitive Advantage This course provides the learner with an understanding of utilizing collaboration and technology to maximize the effect of supply chain processing. Product design and product life cycle management as elements of the improvement effort, and performance measures and metrics. Models for improving all major processes within a supply chain, and extensive case examples to validate the principles and  more...