How Corporate Learning Drives Competitive Advantage - Forbes

Forbes 3/20/2013   (similar to DukeCE's "Competences to Capabilities")

Many business people think of training as something distracting or often a waste of time. And despite the fact that US business spends more than $60 billion a year in employee development (2013 Corporate Learning Factbook), many executives question its return on investment.

Well our research shows that one of the most important sources of competitive advantage is your entire corporate learning strategy. And as I will explain in this article, the corporate learning strategy goes far beyond developing good courses in the training department.

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