BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Learning Relationship

  • a relationship between a supplier and a customer in which the supplier modifies or customizes a product as it learns more about the customer's requirements

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When Learning And Performance Are At Odds: Confronting The Tension
This paper explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. Paper starts with the general proposition that learning promotes performance, and then describes several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in support of performance improvement. Psychological and interpersonal risks of learning behavior are...
Tags: Harvard College, Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2006-11-01
Alliances : Learning to Change
In present scenario the companies aim to learn new ways of doing business to gain insights into everything from specific market segment needs, to new technologies and innovative production processes, to completely new business models. The concept of alliance learning proves it as a key to improving the current dissatisfaction...
Tags: Alliance, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Outsourcing The Learning Function: Laying The Groundwork For A Successful Transformation
Outsourcing the learning function is a bold move for many organizations. Compared to many human resource functions, learning is often a complex activity that is at the heart of the core capabilities that an organization must deliver day in and day out. To get the full value of a learning...
Tags: Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2005-08-01
Learning with Mentors
Career success isn't just the result of knowledge and skill. It also depends on your ability to learn the unwritten rules of the "system," the unmapped paths to rapid advancement, and the tools to handle yourself diplomatically and unemotionally during high-pressure situations. Technical mastery and special knowledge are important to...
Tags: Professional development, BNET Editorial, mentor, career, knowledge, tool
Articles 2007-10-18
PricewaterhouseCoopers and Saba announce strategic alliance; Co-marketing relationship bolsters learning and performance solutions for Global 2000 customers.
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 November 2000-Saba: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Saba announce strategic alliance; Co-marketing relationship bolsters learning and performance solutions for Global 2000 customers C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15112000 Saba (Nasdaq: SABA), global provider of learning and performance solutions, today announced...
Tags: E-learning, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., performance, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, SOFTWARE, Strategy, training
Research articles 2000-11-16
SOLSTRA: Solstra and Harvard Business School deliver just-in-time management learning to the desktop.
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 April 1999-SOLSTRA: Solstra and Harvard Business School Publishing deliver just-in-time management learning to the desktop C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:130499 London -- The latest in management expertise is now available on demand thanks to a new relationship between Solstra,...
Tags: British Telecommunications, desktop, Harvard Business School, INTERNET, JIT, Quality, SOFTWARE, Strategy
Research articles 1999-04-15
Detica helps marketing professionals fast track the CRM learning curve; Leading CRM consultancy, Detica, launches first CIM accredited customer relationship management course for UK marketing professionals.
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 2002-Detica: Detica helps marketing professionals fast track the CRM learning curve; Leading CRM consultancy, Detica, launches first CIM accredited customer relationship management course for UK marketing professionals C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16042002 London -- Detica,...
Tags: CRM Learning LP
Research articles 2002-04-16
New Relationship Brings Disney Institute Programs to Key Business Markets
Learning Tree International will feature D.I. curriculum in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney Institute professional development programs will soon be offered at Learning Tree Education Centers in select cities throughout the U.S. The programs are...
Tags: Disney Institute
Research articles 2009-06-24
The Impact Of Communication Behaviours On New Product Development Speed And Organisational Learning
The purpose of this paper is to understand how communication behaviours influence new product development NPD speed and organisational learning. Through the use of structural equation modelling, this research tests a model examining the effects of communication behaviours (i.e. communication quality, bi-directional communication, and communication frequency) on NPD speed and...
Tags: New Product Development, University Of Sydney, New Product Development Speed, Product Marketing, Marketing
White papers 2007-03-01
TRO Learning Partners With click2learn.com To Distribute PLATO Titles Online
MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 18, 1999-- TRO Learning, Inc. (Nasdaq:TUTR) announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with click2learn.com (Nasdaq:CLKS), formerly Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc., to provide 66 of TRO Learning's PLATOR educational software titles through click2learn.com's Lifelong Learning portal. John Murray, executive vice president and CFO of...
Tags: Business Wire, INTERNET, Minneapolis, Plato, Portals
Research articles 1999-10-18
That Elusive Customer Loyalty: How to Build It, Learn From It and Profit From It
Relationship marketing is grounded in the idea of establishing a learning relationship with customers. At the lower end, building a relationship can create cross-selling opportunities that may make the overall relationship profitable. With valuable customers, customer relationship management may make them more loyal and willing to invest additional funds. In...
Tags: Relationship, Banking, Product Marketing, Financial Services, Marketing
White papers 2000-11-22
Investigating the Relationship Between Learning Motives and Governance Structure - From the Perspective of Small Firms
Over the past decade a tremendous increase in alliance formations have been observed. Many of these alliances are established with the purpose of facilitating learning, which in this paper has been divided into exploration or exploitation learning. The objective of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework to analyse...
Tags: Alliance, University Of Auckland, Alliance Formation, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-11-17
A Study of the Relationship Between Firm Age-at-IPO and Aftermarket Stock Performance
Prior to a firm's IPO, management refines the enterprise's idea and strategy, while early investors and creditors assess the firm's potential, risks, and optimal deployment of capital. Since the post-IPO capital investment will be irreversible, this learning process is very important because it reduces the possibility of a costly mistake....
Tags: Firm, New York University, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2002-04-01
Kronos® Forms Relationship with Learn.com to Bring Learning Management Functionality to Human Resources Customers
Enables joint customers to more proactively improve organizational performance CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- In response to demand from its human resources customers for affordable and easy-to-implement enterprise learning management functionality, Kronos([R]) Incorporated today announced that it has formed a strategic relationship with Learn.com. As a result of this agreement, Kronos...
Tags: Learn.Com Inc.
Research articles 2008-09-17
VuePoint and Carlson Marketing Group Announce Continued Partnership to Increase Employee Usage of E-Learning
Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers LONG ISLAND, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 17, 2000 - MyWorkLinkSM, Carlson Marketing Group's Online Rewards System, Linked with VuePoint's Learning System 2.0 VuePoint, a comprehensive e-learning company focused on creating competitive organizations, and Carlson Marketing Group, the world leader in Relationship Marketing, are pleased...
Tags: Carlson Marketing Group, E-learning, partnership, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2000-10-17
Establishing a Strategic Partnering Relationship
Strategic partnership agreements—whether short- or long-term—allow organizations to take advantage of market opportunities and respond to customer needs in collaboration, doing it more efficiently and effectively than they could alone."Collaboration is the process by which partners adopt a high level of purposeful cooperation to maintain a trading relationship over time....
Tags: Partnership, Relationship, Organization, Business Structures, Finance, Strategic Partnering, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-19
Understanding Our Human Nature – Learning to Ask Instead of Blame
This article is about learning to ask for what you need in a way that doesn't create a war or more tension. In this article there is a list of four suggestions that must be kept in mind in order to avoid any conflict. Like, back away from the problem...
Tags: Bristlecone Learning
White papers 2003-01-01
Appropriating Innovation Profits And Firms' Learning Behaviour
This paper considers whether there is any relationship between a firm's learning style and the way it chooses to appropriate its innovation profits. It argues that there two potential connections: first, a firm's absorptive capacity, its ability to generate new innovations and its subsequent ability to appropriate the returns from...
Tags: Innovation, University Of Melbourne, Firm, Leadership, Strategy, Management
White papers 2004-04-01
Lakeshore Learning Materials Goes Live with Escalate Retail™ Blue Martini® E-Commerce Suite
SAN DIEGO -- Escalate Retail announced today that Lakeshore Learning Materials, a leading multichannel retailer of innovative educational toys and learning materials for children, has successfully implemented Escalate's Blue Martini Commerce Suite with the Business Intelligence reporting module. Lakeshore also selected the Blue Martini Contact Center and Relationship Marketing modules,...
Tags: e-business
Research articles 2007-11-05
Duke U. study posits negative effect of alcohol on learning - Duke University
An article in the 8/1 New York Times profiled a study on the relationship between learning and alcohol. The study, recently completed by two Duke University professors, asserts that alcohol has a detrimental effect on learning, and offers a remedy: higher beer taxes.
Tags: alcohol, Duke University
Research articles 1993-08-09