May 1, 2007
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Capella University Named Gold Sponsor of Atlanta Sharing @ LearnShare
Leader in Online Education to Join Corporate Training Executives at High-Level Conference: Capella University, an accredited online university that is a leader in online education, today announced that it will be participating as the Gold sponsor for the Atlanta Sharing @ LearnShare conference September 14-15, 2006 (sharing2006.com). Sharing @ LearnShare is the premier industry event that brings together training and development executives from across the nation to share best practices and lessons learned through keynote speakers, focused breakout sessions, and a variety of networking opportunities.
Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) July 24, 2006 — Capella University, an accredited online university that is a leader in online education, today announced that it will be participating as the Gold sponsor for the Atlanta Sharing @ LearnShare conference September 14-15, 2006 (sharing2006.com). Sharing @ LearnShare is the premier industry event that brings together training and development executives from across the nation to share best practices and lessons learned through keynote speakers, focused breakout sessions, and a variety of networking opportunities.
Capella University is an accredited online university that offers 77 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 16 certificate specializations, including multiple MBA specializations and master’s and PhD programs in training and performance improvement. The online university currently serves more than 15,700 learners from all 50 states and 63 countries. It is a national leader in online education, committed to providing academic excellence.
Join LearnShare and Capella University in Atlanta, Georgia from September 14-15 at the Atlanta Renaissance Hotel. To register, visit www.sharing2006.com .
Shamoon is involved in numerous co-ventures with world industry leaders, such as research with General Motors to develop safer, "greener" automobiles. Microsoft-Israel's Forum for Young Developers and Shamoon are jointly motivating more young females to enter careers in engineering. The new Negev Monte Carlo Research Center has already begun to identify markers of Alzheimer's disease, developed a test for early cervical cancer detection, and is the nation's leader in paradigm-building for military preparation for atmospheric dispersion of radiation in terror attacks. Additionally, Shamoon is the only Israeli college or university with "green" engineering or earthquake studies.
About LearnShare
LearnShare LLC, founded in 1996, is a consortium of 37 diverse, industry-leading companies dedicated to sharing their proven expertise and innovative practices across member organizations to enhance their competitive advantage. LearnShare's key focus is to provide technology-based learning solutions, collaborative communities, best practices and applied research to meet its members' mission critical business education and development needs. The original member companies are 3M, ChevronTexaco, Deere & Co., Eaton, General Motors, Levi Strauss & Co, Motorola, Northwest Airlines, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pfizer Inc, Pilkington, and UnitedHealth Group. For more information, visit www.learnshare.com.
About Capella University
Shamoon has developed a special psycho-technic test to identify those with high scientific aptitude.
"Once they qualify, we train them to be counted amongst the finest engineers in the country," explained Haddad.
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LearnShare Announces Distinguished CLO Panel for Atlanta Sharing@LearnShare
Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in south Israel plans for 130% student body increase by 2012. The majority of the students are from south Israel's under-served brain trust. Shamoon plays a unique role in the development of Israel by recruiting and training engineering students, and then motivating them to stay in south Israel after graduation to fill the engineering shortage. This helps spur the region's economic growth.
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 18, 2007 — The American Friends of Sami Shamoon College of Engineering in Beer Sheva and Ashdod, Israel , has opened its first American office, at 5 West 36th Street in New York City. Douglas Stern, President of AFSSCE remarked, "With the leadership of our new Executive Vice President, veteran fundraiser Joshua Karlin, we are creating a high profile Executive Committee in the Northeast United States to raise $12 million by 2012." This will finance Shamoon's 130% planned increase in student enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000, Stern explained.
Join LearnShare and Capella University in Atlanta, Georgia from September 14-15 at the Atlanta Renaissance Hotel. To register, visit www.sharing2006.com .
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Stock Investing – Chrysler Up For Sale – What Is DaimlerChrysler Thinking?
GM after realizing the enormous success that Toyota Motor obtained from being an environmentally friendly technologically advanced carmaker has finally decided to join the bandwagon. GM’s announcement came at the eve of the President Bush’s visit at the Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan., where both versions of the Aura are made.
Service and Customer Loyalty
Eighty years of building cars and they can’t get their act together, and Detroit wants to know why they continue to lose market share. In the last two or three years, Japan has begun implementation of a free oil change policy. Everybody thinks they are being kind to their customers. The truth is the cars never break down, people were leasing their cars, and consequently never changing the oil. Cars were coming back with 30,000 and 40,000 miles on them without oil changes.
Detroit won’t however. They are locked into a different mindset. In Detroit’s way of thinking, it would be prohibitively expensive to implement zero defect manufacturing in this country. Although this might be true for factories currently in production, this would no be true for new factories coming on stream. Since GM and others could have implemented this policy years ago, and chose not to, Detroit’s big three is at least a decade further behind the eight-ball.
When you take delivery of a Japanese car, it is perfect. Everything fits, everything works, and very seldom is there an issue. I do remember buying a new Acura MDX and having the starter fail the first week out of the showroom. No only did Acura tow the MDX in and replace the starter at no charge, but I found out later that the faulty starter was air expressed to Japan to determine why it failed. Acura wanted to learn from the experience. Could you ever imagine in your wildest fantasies, an American car dealer sending the part back to Detroit for rip down and investigation. It’s not even vaguely possible.
3) Service their cars in an appropriate manner that retains and builds customer loyalty
I live in Westport, CT., you can’t buy a house under a million dollar, in fact a million dollars is a tear down. We have a Chrysler jeep dealer adjacent to Westport which is the closest dealer if you want to buy any kind of Chrysler. Upon inspecting it, I found the shop employees who handle the customers to have grease on their clothes. These are not the guys who fix the cars. They are the service advisors.
Sure, not in my lifetime, maybe in yours. When you walk into an American dealer, they still try to snow you. In our investment work when we get involved in stock investing, we do hands on stock research. If it’s Detroit’s manufacturers, we walk into dealers all the time to see what’s going on. We are looking for tidbits of information, what we call the scuttlebutt method of stock investing.
This is no different than a boxer stepping into the ring and thinking about which of the next several rounds I will get knocked out in. It’s throwing in the towel, and you don’t want to get involved with stock investing with companies that have that attitude. Chrysler along with its two American counterparts General Motors and Ford must implement a couple of very simple ideas to make a comeback. They are:
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Shamoon College of Engineering in Israel Opens American Office — College Helps Fill Engineering Shortage in South Israel
Join LearnShare and Capella University in Atlanta, Georgia from September 14-15 at the Atlanta Renaissance Hotel. To register, visit www.sharing2006.com .
Shamoon is involved in numerous co-ventures with world industry leaders, such as research with General Motors to develop safer, "greener" automobiles. Microsoft-Israel's Forum for Young Developers and Shamoon are jointly motivating more young females to enter careers in engineering. The new Negev Monte Carlo Research Center has already begun to identify markers of Alzheimer's disease, developed a test for early cervical cancer detection, and is the nation's leader in paradigm-building for military preparation for atmospheric dispersion of radiation in terror attacks. Additionally, Shamoon is the only Israeli college or university with "green" engineering or earthquake studies.
About LearnShare
LearnShare LLC, founded in 1996, is a consortium of 37 diverse, industry-leading companies dedicated to sharing their proven expertise and innovative practices across member organizations to enhance their competitive advantage. LearnShare's key focus is to provide technology-based learning solutions, collaborative communities, best practices and applied research to meet its members' mission critical business education and development needs. The original member companies are 3M, ChevronTexaco, Deere & Co., Eaton, General Motors, Levi Strauss & Co, Motorola, Northwest Airlines, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pfizer Inc, Pilkington, and UnitedHealth Group. For more information, visit www.learnshare.com.
About Capella University
Shamoon has developed a special psycho-technic test to identify those with high scientific aptitude.
"Once they qualify, we train them to be counted amongst the finest engineers in the country," explained Haddad.
Founded in 1996 with just 95 students, Shamoon is now Israel's largest engineering college. It offers special scholarship programs for Israeli-Ethiopians, Bedouins, Israeli soldiers, single mothers and others with financial hardships. Israeli Arabs, Bedouins, and Druze comprise 15% of the student body. Shamoon has produced the first, and to date, only, female Bedouin engineer. Eleven Israeli Ethiopian engineers have graduated, the most from any Israeli college or university.
“This is our first year of involvement with LearnShare and we are thrilled to be an integral part of the event,” said Bill Young, Director, Education Alliances. “Sharing @ LearnShare is a well-regarded event in the learning industry and we are pleased to support it.”
The theme of the conference, Achieving Competitive Advantage, will address the single most powerful competitive advantage in an organization: its people. Senior training and development professionals are responsible for the intellectual fitness of the people in an organization—intellectual fitness that delivers fiscal fitness. The collaborative spirit of the Sharing @ LearnShare conference will give attendees the opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices with peers who face many of the same challenges.
Shamoon's graduates are helping fill the extreme shortage of engineers in Israel, especially in the southern region. Approximately 77% of Shamoon graduates stay in south Israel, employed at companies such as Intel, Amdocs, El-Op, Dead Sea Works (DSW), and Bromine Compounds.
Eighty percent of Shamoon students hail from the Negev and south Israel, fulfilling the government mandate to make higher education more accessible to people living on the periphery.
"We reach out to young adults who lack the typical opportunities," Prof. Jehuda Haddad, Shamoon College President said. "We give them a vision - that of becoming professional engineers - to make better lives for themselves, and for all who live in Israel's south. Then we give them a chance to realize that vision."
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General Motors Going Hybrid… Finally
General Motors maker of quality GM parts has never really backed out from any challenge especially if it comes from Toyota Motor Corporation which as we all know is hot on the heels of the world’s number 1 automaker. GM is planning to go head-to-head with ToMoCo in targeting fuel-conscious consumers. The world’s number one automaker will sell the cheapest hybrid, the Saturn Aura on the US market, as announced by GM last Monday.
GM after realizing the enormous success that Toyota Motor obtained from being an environmentally friendly technologically advanced carmaker has finally decided to join the bandwagon. GM’s announcement came at the eve of the President Bush’s visit at the Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan., where both versions of the Aura are made.
Service and Customer Loyalty
Eighty years of building cars and they can’t get their act together, and Detroit wants to know why they continue to lose market share. In the last two or three years, Japan has begun implementation of a free oil change policy. Everybody thinks they are being kind to their customers. The truth is the cars never break down, people were leasing their cars, and consequently never changing the oil. Cars were coming back with 30,000 and 40,000 miles on them without oil changes.
Detroit won’t however. They are locked into a different mindset. In Detroit’s way of thinking, it would be prohibitively expensive to implement zero defect manufacturing in this country. Although this might be true for factories currently in production, this would no be true for new factories coming on stream. Since GM and others could have implemented this policy years ago, and chose not to, Detroit’s big three is at least a decade further behind the eight-ball.
When you take delivery of a Japanese car, it is perfect. Everything fits, everything works, and very seldom is there an issue. I do remember buying a new Acura MDX and having the starter fail the first week out of the showroom. No only did Acura tow the MDX in and replace the starter at no charge, but I found out later that the faulty starter was air expressed to Japan to determine why it failed. Acura wanted to learn from the experience. Could you ever imagine in your wildest fantasies, an American car dealer sending the part back to Detroit for rip down and investigation. It’s not even vaguely possible.
3) Service their cars in an appropriate manner that retains and builds customer loyalty
I live in Westport, CT., you can’t buy a house under a million dollar, in fact a million dollars is a tear down. We have a Chrysler jeep dealer adjacent to Westport which is the closest dealer if you want to buy any kind of Chrysler. Upon inspecting it, I found the shop employees who handle the customers to have grease on their clothes. These are not the guys who fix the cars. They are the service advisors.
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