Giunti Labs - Giunti Labs wins ‘Platinum’ at the IMS Global Learning Consortium ‘2008 Learning Impact Awards’

Leading acquirements and adaptable agreeable administration technology provider, Giunti Labs has won a ‘Platinum’ Learning Impact Award (LIA). The Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact acquirements agreeable administration arrangement LCMS won the accolade for its appliance with Volkswagen Group Italia, the absolutely endemic Italian accessory of the Volkswagen Group, which distributes Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Italy.

This appliance of the apprentice eXact LCMS aswell won two ‘best in category’ awards - for the best accumulated training band-aid and the best acquirements arrangement - from shortlisted entries calm from all over the world.

A adorning banker network; accretion the amount of participants in training and the amount of bare training courses; the accretion amount of car models, and their abstruse complexity; the accretion charge to alternation staff, dealers and account ally rapidly, as able-bodied as ascent the above standards in training prompted Volkswagen Group Italia to apparatus a attenuated acquirements approach.

This access addresses alone training needs by defining key competencies and accomplishment gaps.
Volkswagen Group Italia uses this appraisal to plan tailored training programmes to advance individuals’ key competencies.

This has bigger the availability of training courses and cut down the charge for contiguous training, appropriately abbreviation ‘time to competency’ for learners. The advance in all-embracing ability in training reduces training costs – conspicuously those associated with biking and time.

In turn, this has added the organisation’s all-embracing productivity.

In 2005, Volkswagen Group Italia called Giunti Labs’ apprentice eXact for its e-learning programme implementation.

Volkswagen Group Italia bare to actualize a multi-domain portal, which could be absolutely chip with PetrA, the banker portal; BDO, the banker database, and Ad@ the employees’ portal. The aim was to accomplish abounding affiliation of ‘single assurance on’ with company’s appliance for the contiguous training activities.

Multi-delivery options – via such things as CD-ROM, Mobiles, Smartphones, and even wearable PCs - action dealers and account ally a top amount of adaptability in accessing the acquirements materials.

“Advanced user achievement tracking functionalities of the called belvedere are axiological as able-bodied as abilities administration options for alone acquirements programme planning,” explained Volkswagen Group Italia’s Laura Apostoli. “Learning Object based agreeable assembly architectonics and acquiescence with the capital e-learning standards and blueprint agreement that the adopted band-aid is approaching proof.

“Essentially, the customised apprentice eXact LCMS band-aid allows Volkswagen Group Italia to organise all its acquirements agreeable into one individual LCMS and agenda repository. Most importantly, Volkswagen Group Italia bequest agreeable has been transferred into the arrangement and tagged with a SCORM-based metadata and taxonomies framework.

“Using this access enables Volkswagen Group Italia to dispense and re-use agreeable seamlessly amid altered formats and to actualize altered deliveries of the aforementioned agreeable from one individual source,” she said.

During 2006, 18 training courses were deployed above altered brands and training sectors in the Volkswagen Group Italia. Based on the absolute after-effects and the feedback, apprentice eXact has now been absolutely chip in the banker portal.

The LIAs - the after-effects of the world’s anniversary antagonism of top appulse use of technology to abutment and enhance acquirements - were appear by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC), a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. The LIAs recognise use of technology – in ambience - to advance acquirements above all industry segments and in all regions of the world.

Twenty-three finalists were evaluated by an able console of board at the IMS anniversary Learning Impact appointment and Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges, captivated in Austin, Texas. Entries are evaluated according to eight belief of impact, including convalescent acceptance to learning, convalescent affordability of learning, and convalescent the above of learning.

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Contact: Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3474435167, m.leikas@giuntilabs.com

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About Giunti Labs
Giunti is different in the all-embracing publishing industry.
In 1497, Giunti publishers and typographers in Florence, calm with others in Venice, began avant-garde book manufacturing. Over the years Giunti has complete a 'historical catalogue' of huge ambit and brands such as Giunti Labs. Giunti Labs, which has its all-around address in Italy and offices in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany), Lund (Sweden), Boston (US), as able-bodied as Sydney and Perth (Australia), provides a advanced ambit of solutions, in acknowledgment to any content, acquirements and ability administration need, covering:
•Content assembly
•Technological solutions for content, acquirements & ability administration
•Delivery solutions for adaptable & wireless
•Consulting and able casework
In 2008, Giunti Labs acquired the HarvestRoad Hive agenda athenaeum system, which manages any anatomy of agreeable acclimated in online learning, accumulated training and ability administration initiatives. HarvestRoad Hive can interface with about any ERP, Learning or Course Management System and is already chip with several frequently acclimated advance administration systems, assembly and agreeable accumulation tools.

About IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC)

IMS Global Learning is a global, non-profit, affiliate organisation, accurate by over 115 organisations, that strives to accredit the advance and appulse of acquirements technology in the apprenticeship and accumulated acquirements sectors worldwide. IMS GLC associates accommodate administration in abstraction and growing the acquirements industry through association development of interoperability and acceptance convenance standards and acceptance of the acknowledgment on investment from acquirements and educational technology. For added information, including the world's a lot of absolute set of acquirements technology interoperability standards, advice on the anniversary Learning Impact appointment and awards program, and chargeless association assets for acquirements technology leaders, appointment www.imsglobal.org

About Volkswagen Group Italia

Volkswagen Group Italia, based in Verona, is the absolutely endemic Italian accessory of the Volkswagen Group, distributing Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi and SEAT motor cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

Volkswagen Group Italia has about 1.000 advisers and over 1,300 dealers and account partners. Specific training, aiming at convalescent affairs ability and account above is advised for added than 20,000 workers in dealers and account partners.