Research and Markets Insight Into Training Provision Within Leading UK Companies



May 16, 2005 -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c17444) has announced the addition of Training in Major UK Companies Study and Profiles to their offering.

This report provides an accurate and up-to-date view of what individual customers and, in particular, the largest companies are actually doing with regard to their training provision and, most importantly, what they intend to do in the future. It provides profiles of the training operations of 30 leading UK companies, plus a summary of the findings.

The report draws together the main themes emerging from the companies and gives an interpretation of their implications. There are sections covering each of the following issues:
-Training priorities, drivers of investment and in-house operations
-Budgeting processes and levels of training spending
-Trends in usage of and views on e-learning & blended learning
-Attitudes to Learning Management Systems
-Views on outsourcing of training operations
-Views on training vendors
-Purchase criteria and satisfaction with key suppliers
-In-house capabilities

Questions the Report Answers
The profiles provide the answers, where possible, to questions such as:
-Does the company have an in-house training department or is all provision outsourced
-If it has one, how large is its in-house training department
-What is its overall training and education budget
-How satisfied is it with its current training provision and its investments in training and e-learning technology
-What are its future intentions regarding investment, outsourcing or other major initiatives
-Which vendors does the company regard as having played an important role in setting up its current training infrastructure
-How does the company compare to its peers in its attitudes to critical issues and its future intentions

Who is the Report For
Providers of training content, services and solutions
-To understand what is current best practice in leading UK companies
-Identify the major UK companies which have the greatest need for their offer and are likely to be the best prospects for them
-See which companies are planning major initiatives
-Get objective feedback on strengths, weaknesses, usage issues and satisfaction levels for solutions from a range of vendors
-Obtain valuable information to improve the effectiveness of ongoing sales efforts, focusing effort on prospects with greatest potential and understanding relevant context which may drive purchasing decisions

In-house corporate training departments
-Understand what solutions are best practice in leading UK companies
-Structure of provision (in house vs outsourced)
-Technology platforms
-Preferred vendors
-Learn from the experiences of others facing similar challenges
Investors in the training and education sector

Contents contained in this study include the following:
Executive summary               
Introduction                   
Companies profiled               
Key findings           
Training priorities and operations       
Budgets                   
e-learning                   
LMS                       
Outsourcing                   
Purchase criteria & supplier satisfaction   
In-house capabilities               

Company profiles
AMEC
BAT
Britvic
BSkyB
Carnival
Carphone Warehouse
Dixons
Eli Lilly
Exel
HBOS
Hilton
HMV
Jewson
Land Securities
Legal & General
Masterfoods
Norwich Union
NTL
P&O Ferries
Reuters
Rolls Royce
Sainsbury's
Scottish & Newcastle
Severn Trent
SSE
Standard Chartered
Standard Life
Unipart
United Utilities
William Hill

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c17444

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
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Research and Markets Insight Into Training Provision Within Leading UK Companies