Chief Learning Officer - June 2008 - (Page 33) DATA POINT Alcatel-Lucent has more than 77,000 employees worldwide, and operates 21 corporate universities around the globe. SOLUTIONS FOR TODAY STRATEGIES FOR TOMORROW Chief Learning Officer magazine presents “We asked ourselves, ‘How can we get the right capabilities and credibility in the company to run these large integration and IT transformation projects?’ We started with a projectmanager qualification track to have certified project managers and project directors who could move into the market. The first layer is PMI (Project Management Institute), but we have an internal accreditation mechanism, where we review their accomplishments, qualify them and screen them.” In addition to competencies, Ginneberge aims to improve the accessibility of learning for Alcatel-Lucent’s global population of employees and customers. “The tagline of Alcatel-Lucent is, ‘Because the world is always on,’” he said. “We’re going for an ‘always on’ learning environment for our employees. That’s what we’re actively working on for the second half of 2008.” This objective isn’t all that surprising for an organization that places so much emphasis on having an international nature. “The fact that we are multinational, multicultural and multilingual is very much appreciated by our customers and employees,” Ginneberge said. “This mix of employees clearly brings the assets of seeing things in a different way and looking for alternatives. This global environment gives us a way of working that’s different from a local company, but it’s addictive. If people work for truly global companies, they want to stay in global companies.” CLO Video, Podcasts, White Papers and More Enriching the Corporate Learning Community Infozone is a collection of microsites that offers podcasts, videos, white papers and additional resources from our partners in the enterprise education community. These resources offer chief learning officers and other learning and development professionals a one-stop go-to guide to learn more about the practices and strategies at work in the most successful learning organizations across a variety of industries. Visit infozone.clomedia.com Information and resources provided by our partners: http://infozone.clomedia.com http://infozone.clomedia.com
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