Elearning! Fall 2007 - (Page 6) Editor’snote Harnessing the Power Are tomorrow’s corporate leaders today’s e-learners? B usiness executives around the world agree that knowledge and technology trends will have a positive impact on the profitability of their companies, according McKinsey Quarterly. In its latest survey, 81 percent of business executives ranked “increasing availability of knowl- edge and the ability to exploit it” as very important or important; 76 percent ranked “faster pace of technological innovation” as very important or important. But, McKinsey notes, there is a gap between the impact that executives assign these trends and the extent to which they actually try to seize the opportunities. Why? One can only guess. Perhaps it’s because a good portion of current corporate executives (aged 45+) began their careers before the amazing growth of the Internet and other online resources. Today’s corporate presidents and directors used Remingtons and Underwoods to type their college term papers. They are nearing retirement age. On the other hand, today’s mid-level managers — our business leaders of tomorrow — used laptops for taking Economics 101 notes. Nowadays, they don’t hesitate to harness the power of personal computing to boost their rise through the corporate ranks. It’s easy to see that the potential impact of e-learning on the nation’s workforce has yet to reach its zenith (though its popularity is increasing by leaps and bounds). Only when today’s mid-level managers — who know the value of PCs, the Internet and the e-learning process — become our corporate leaders will the full potential of e-learning be realized. And this magazine hopes to be around when that day comes to pass. Jerry Roche Editorial Director 6 Fall 2007 Elearning!
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