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Information Technology is now an essential component in the infrastructure of every business. The demand for IT literate staff has been increasing without abatement since the arrival of the PC and networked computers, now the explosion of the Internet as a key B2B tool is exhausting every technical resource. The excess demand for IT specialists have seen salaries rocket in that sector over the past 3 years.
Internet access in the work place has brought new headaches to employers. Productive time is lost to recreational surfing which also consumes limited bandwidth. There is an un-resolved conflict.. Employers need a web savvy and e-innovative workforce to realise the benefits of the Internet but on the other hand they also want to stop them using it too much.
Demographics are also playing a role in this human resource equation. Historically employers would look to take on younger people who would learn new technology quickly and as an added bonus these youth recruits used to be relatively cheap. The birth rate bulge has now passed, the western world is looking at an increasingly ageing population. Employers are going to have to look at re-training older people. Continuous learning is now a business imperative because of 'internet timescales'. The pace of technology change is happening quicker than ever before and the reins of control are distributed world-wide. The winning companies will be the ones that harness today's latest efficient web technologies and the ones that adapt most quickly to tommorrows developments. Thankfully the web is being harnessed to deliver the training tools to transform your work-force.
On-line Universities are giving employees the flexibility to learn according to their own pace and convenience. First mover employers are arranging access through their Intranet/Extranet infrastructure and reaping the benefits of low administration accredited learning plans for every employee. Distance learning has truly come of age and in the near future Interactivity in virtual campuses will become common place between lecturers and students using live web broadcast and multi-media technology.
Training Providers in this arena are:
www.vu.pwcglobal.com (Price Waterhouse Corporate University)
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