Corporate SolutionsgetAbstract, a leading online media company, has millions of users who subscribe to its on-demand “compressed knowledge” service. Its solutions include access to more than 7,000 business book summaries, updated with up to 50 new summaries each month, ensuring that your people are always up to date with the latest cutting edge thinking to become knowledgeable leaders. Besides its thousands of individual subscribers, getAbstract’s corporate client list includes some of the most successful firms in business today – such companies as General Electric, Boeing, Microsoft, UBS, Johnson & Johnson, Deutsche Post, Credit Suisse, Sasol, RMB, Wesbank, Vodacom, MTN, MasterCard, Dell, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Tsogo Sun, Sun International, Exxaro, Investec, Standard Bank and many more. Value statement getAbstract is passionate about cultivating leaders in your organization. It enables your workforce with access to powerful knowledge, collaboration and engagement tools when they need it most to enhance the quality of leadership at all levels to deliver on your most critical strategic objectives, as well as improve the agility of the organization to respond quickly to the ever changing and competitive global business climate and drive improved business performance. We believe that great readers make great leaders. getAbstractempowers the enterprise to compete better by equipping their people with the business knowledge (summarized, categorized and rated) they need to make well-informed, well-educated decisions quickly and effectively. Bringing getAbstract into your organisation fosters a culture of innovation and ingenuity, enhancing the ability of your workforce to deliver creative solutions to your customers. It sparks meaningful on-the-job collaboration, irrespective of where your workforce is situated and improves productivity levels by ensuring that the knowledge they need is at their fingertips, without having to spend many unproductive hours searching through millions of pages of information on the internet. getAbstractis the perfect strategic resource to spark meaningful on-the-job connections by teams and across business unit boundaries to address key business challenges. It changes mindset, drives innovation and improves the quality of leadership at all levels. Your people can share thoughts on today’s latest thinking from bestsellers and brainstorm how to implement the knowledge gained from abstractsto improve the business. It is proven that in today’s technological era, your people, more than ever before are finding their own way to learn and build their capabilities. Provide your people with the option to learn from the best compressed business knowledge available. Summarized at the highest qualitygetAbstract’s relationships with more than 450 publishers ensures that our clients can remain constantly up-to-date while investing very little time. Our publishing partners and their authors trust and respect our information. For example, our partnership with Harvard Business School Press gives getAbstractthe rights to summarize their books and release abstracts promptly with its approval and the approval of the authors. Our professional writers and editors, who are subject area experts as well as experienced business journalists, ensure top quality. Staying abreast of key business trends is vital to business success. And much of this expert knowledge resides in books. But the average business book takes 10 hours to read. Thus, typically, your people only manage to read just one business book a year, barely skimming the surface of crucial business knowledge. Our experienced business writers compress all the important points of a book into just five pages. Each summary is readable in only 10 minutes, not the 10 hours it can take to read an entire book. As a result, typical getAbstractusers download dozens of book summaries, maximizing their exposure to important business literature that they need right now. On Demand AccessUsing getAbstractis easy. The compressed business knowledge is available at the point-of-need. Your people have instant access to download relevant reading material to any device option they prefer, including mobile devices (iPad, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, Kindle and Nook), online access, print and audio. Our experienced professionals customize reading list of abstracts to align to your business objectives and keep them permanently up-to-date, fresh and relevant, as well as fully integrated into your company portals and learning programs. In addition to on-demand access, every user can receives weekly, emailed summaries in their specified areas of interest. This weekly professional communication is so valuable that the average reader forwards the abstract he or she receives to five other users. getAbstract’s vast range of summaries, “knowledge packs” and corporate solutions offers new ideas and best-practices, on-demand at the point-of-need. Build your learning culture and provide the information agility your employees, managers and executives need in today’s ever-changing business environment. Aligned to your key business objectivesOur corporate customers use getAbstract to create a bottom-line competitive advantage by supporting crucial strategies and internal initiatives, including leadership development, talent training and management, operational efficiency, enhanced stockholder value, strategic thinking, diversity, brand value, customer satisfaction, sustainability, expansion and more. What makes us stand out as a leader in providing knowledge solutions is our top-of-the-line Professional support from our team of experienced consultants and partners - who are always at hand to provide clients with the highest levels of customization. We instill value into your company by linking knowledge to business needs, optimizing getAbstractimplementation and adoption support. getAbstractis proud that many of our clients are recognized leaders in their industries. During 2011, six of the top ten CLO Magazine “Learning Elite Winners” were getAbstractclients. Designed to help make Smart Business DecisionsMore than ever, people are using the latest technology and knowledge driven solutions to accelerate their ability to grow and develop into top class performers. Provide your people with the opportunity to access and learn from the best business knowledge available, tailored to their individual needs and deliverables. Advantages • Instantly access the knowledge you need • Understand concepts easily and quickly • Retain information more effectively • Gain exposure to more global business knowledge Value to your organization • Hone your organization's competitive edge • Solve problems more quickly • Improve knowledge sharing • Increase productivity • Create an innovative environment • Build a continuous learning culture at point of need • High usage and applicability to business issues • Drive improved people and business performance |
