Grand designs for e‐learning – can e‐learning make the grade for our biggest corporates?

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this paper is to discuss the key issues of deployment for large enterprises keen to adopt new web‐based learning techniques.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper complements the writer's own expertise with external research and reference to large enterprise scale e‐training deployments recently implemented for global companies, including PepsiCo.

Findings

The paper finds that big business is waking up to the efficiency and cost benefits of wide‐scale e‐learning deployment.

Originality/value

This paper launches the debate for enterprise wide e‐learning architectures in large companies.

Citation

Unneberg, L. (2007), "Grand designs for e‐learning – can e‐learning make the grade for our biggest corporates?", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 201-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197850710755122