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Case Code: CLHR030
Case Length: 3 pages 
Period: -  
Pub Date: 2009
Teaching Note: Not Available
Subject : Human Resources/ Organization Behavior
Price:Rs.100
Organization :--
Industry : Media
Countries : --

Mspace: GroupM's Interactive Digital Learning System Aping Social Networks*

 

ABSTRACT

In 2008, leading global media investment management company, GroupM, started an online training initiative that closely resembled a social networking site. The program called Mspace, was created to bolster the interactive advertising knowledge of its employees and build their digital skills. The program made use of personas to deliver the training modules.
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Issues:

  • Training and development
  • Training techniques
  • Training methods
Introduction
In 2008, leading global media investment management company, GroupM, found itself facing a challenge. It needed to bolster the interactive advertising knowledge of its employees and build their digital skills but there was a paucity of experienced talent in the market to recruit from and training interventions from external agencies would work out to be costly....
Questions for Discussion
1. Critically analyze GroupM's Mspace online training initiative.

2. "Even something like Mspace has to be used as an adjunct to a formal digital training program." Discuss.

Keywords

Training and development,Training techniques,Training methods



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