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Integrating Performance and Learning using Competencies

This is an older, but quite relevant article about aligning learning initiatives with business strategy and tangible performance outcomes.

"People are an organization’s most important value-producing asset. They represent enormous wealth for an organization and can exceed 40 percent of corporate expense. Without them nothing gets done. If people assets don’t act and re-act appropriately, then much of our financial capital, technology capital, and knowledge capital is wasted - strategy is not successfully executed, objectives are not met, mission is not fulfilled, and stakeholders are not satisfied. There is tremendous business value, competitive advantage and growth to be gained by improving how human capital is managed."

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