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Technology, learning and business updates from e-academy
Institute of Leadership and Management training courses launched
26 January 2012
If great leaders are born, not made, then there's little point in management training. Thankfully, this isn't the case.
iBooks 2 – education reinvented?
26 January 2012
Apple has just announced not only a new version of its iBooks software, but also a new authoring tool design to make it easy to create media-rich textbooks for the iPad.
The Six Sigma approach to quality
26 January 2012
We take a look at Six Sigma, which is used by many of the world's leading companies as an all-encompassing, organisation-wide approach to quality.
When is a course not a course?
15 December 2011
We're all used to training courses covering specific topics, but with e-learning, the course can be whatever it needs to be.
SQL Server 2012 keeps raising the game
15 December 2011
Microsoft has made available release candidate 0 of SQL Server 2012. We decided to take a look at its most compelling new features.
You can never be too secure
15 December 2011
Security is becoming one of the most important parts of an organisation's IT strategy. We take a look at just a few of the ways in which you may be exposed.
The cloud is now – and the future
6 October 2011
Cloud storage - keeping your data 'in the sky' may not be a new idea, but it's becoming a core part of many organisations' IT strategies.
The social business
6 October 2011
Social media - is it merely time-consuming online trivia, fraught with business risk, or the communications medium of the future?
Taking a look at Windows 8
6 October 2011
Windows 8 may well be almost a year from launch, but the developer preview is here already. We take a look at how it's shaping up.
The skills to build a more effective business
28 July 2011
There's seldom been as much pressure on businesses to be as effective as possible. There's always the pressure to cut - but what about building on what you have?
