How the American Research Institute teamed up with MicroTek to deliver fast-paced training
T+D Magazine - November 2005 - p. 71-72
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THE BUSINESS WORLD moves faster than ever before, requiring a new velocity in its workforce. Without the boundaries of time and space, today’s workforces are not only global, but diversified, dispersed, and constantly in need of training and education to keep pace. Every day, the media reports stories of mergers and acquisitions, further streamlining workforces and systems. Finding a way to deliver consistent, productive training to this workforce is a new training industry challenge.
American Research Institute is a leading provider of education and training services, which helps customers achieve their maximum effectiveness through high-quality, educationally sound, and mission-critical training. ARI offers a wide range of services, from designing custom training solutions to full outsourcing of training divisions. ARI has learned how to effectively blend techniques to customize learning programs designed to optimize the results of any education plan.
To achieve velocity, companies are constantly looking for ways to introduce training to their workforce faster, cheaper, and more effectively.With organizations spending billions of dollars annually on training and education, outtasking certain functions of the training process has become necessary to maximize available resources and minimize costs. It’s no longer cost-effective to build and maintain training facilities that are empty a significant portion of time. As companies re-purpose their real estate, they are looking for partners to provide the necessary components of the training function on an as-needed basis.
For more than 10 years, the training logistics experts at MicroTek have been providing clients with the mission-critical facilities and services needed to train their global workforces in a cost-effective, on-demand environment.
“Each of our clients is being asked to do more with less—train more people in more places with fewer resources and less time,” explains Don Slivensky, chief executive officer of MicroTek. “They demand wide-reaching solutions, both figuratively and literally, to keep up with the education demands of their growing global workforces.”
With more than 300 classrooms in the United States, each of MicroTek’s business education facilities are equipped with state-of-art computer hardware. An on-site technical staff will set up and support client’s software needs, and a hospitality staff accommodates the needs of both students and instructors. In addition, the MicroTek Alliance Partner network has access to 3,000 classroom facilities in 250 locations worldwide
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