Collaboratories: How can you compete with the most innovative companies in the world?

In this week's Business Week magazine, its main article entitled Big Blue's Global Lab discusses how companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Proctor & Gamble and Eli Lilly are collaborating all over the world with their geographically disbursed offices, universities, governments and even other companies in their R&D efforts. IBM actually calls theirs "collaboratories" - with the potential to set up over 100 worldwide over the coming years. "The world is our lab now," states John E. Kelly III, director of IBM Research.

For organizations of all sizes to stay competitive and innovative in today's global marketplace, employees must have tools and reinforcement to learn and conduct their business in a collaborative way. The good news is that millions - including most of your employee - are familiar with communicating right now and do so on their own time. Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have made this type of collaborative communication second nature.

But that is not enough. The attributes of social networking, when combined with the fundamentals and functionality of traditional learning management systems is critical for enterprises of all sizes to adopt and implement as part of their corporate training plans.

By having an eLearning tool that reinforces collaborative behavior when an employees first starts with a firm (onboarding), is reinforced in ongoing eLearning initiatives and becomes part of the corporate fabric allows for collaboratories to work in today's global competitive environment.

Collaborative learning, cost savings and an environmentally friendly education distribution system our eLearning 2.0 and mLearning platform provides are just some of the benefits of TOPYX®. Our eLearning 2.0 education distribution technologies are paving the way in creating innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's learner.

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Alfred R. Novas
Chief Executive Officer
Interactyx Limited

al.novas@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX®, is at the forefront of developing eLearning and social networking solutions that engage and facilitate knowledge-sharing activities with learners.