arrowHome arrow Online Training arrow Former Southwest Airlines CEO Uses eLearning to Move Knowledge Sunday, 11 May 2008
Online Training Directory


 
 
 
Former Southwest Airlines CEO Uses eLearning to Move Knowledge
eLearning Development Section - eLearning Development Category
Wednesday, 02 November 2005
Howard Putnam, wsRadio.com talk show host and former CEO of Southwest Airlines when it was a struggling start-up, says the information highway is more customer "crash and burn" dangerous than air space, because of information overload and lost productivity. He highlights an elearning plan to avoid that and seize a knowledge and communications-based competitive advantage, through a new rapid knowledge delivery elearning and eBroadcast system called "Corporate Internet Radio".

Corporate Internet Radio uses a live online radio interview and interactive show format to conduct "private internal or external" company meetings, presentations, and collaborative sessions. When combined with a rapid multimedia self-authoring tool, and an online training and communications center with many eLearning type tracking and management features, the resulting "turnkey toolset" creates a powerful Rapid Knowledge Delivery solution to both employers and employees.

The goal of a Rapid Knowledge Delivery toolset and process is to "simply" and "rapidly" connect key knowledge and experienced experts to a company's task workers or stakeholders, by delivering the right piece of highly targeted and concise knowledge when THEY need it. Said Putnam, "In an environment of increasing demands on our people, exacerbated by information overload, complex technology, and the layers of internal and external clutter, making any elearning solution to a problem more targeted, concise, easy and time efficient is not so simple. At Southwest it was always about moving people from a cost effective transportation point of view versus being in the airline business. The Corporate Internet Radio toolset and process is about moving knowledge from a communications point of view versus an information, eLearning or technology perspective.

Putnam has been a hands-on participant in helping refine the Corporate Internet Radio approach over the last year by acting as Contributing Editor and monthly guest on the Internet based Business Best Practice Radio Show on wsRadio.com.

"When Business Best Practices Radio approached me about hosting the Internet based show as a way of developing a new method of training, elearning and communication, being a business 'contrarian', I couldn't resist." For more information log onto http://www.CorporateInternetRadio.com

< Prev   Next >
Sections
Main Menu
Home
Web Conferencing
Collaborative Learning
Conference Calling
Distance Learning
eLearning Development
Online Training
Video Conferencing
Web Collaboration
Podcasting
Submit Your News
Contact Us
Sections
TrainersLink RSS
Latest News
Login Form
Username

Password

Remember me
Forgotten your password?
No account yet? Create one
Most Read
Browser Prefs
_ADD_FAV
_MAKE_HOME
Who's Online
We have 28 guests online
 
top
Trainerslink.com © 2004 - 2005 - All rights reserved. Trainerslink.com provides news of online training, web conferencing, and the conference calling industries.
The posting of events or resources on this site does not constitute any official endorsement by Trainerslink.com.   About Trainerslink
Online Training, Conference Calling, Web Conferencing
Archives: Jan '04 Feb 04 Mar '04 Apr '04 May '04 June '04 July '04
See our Online Training Directory