Applications

 
Virtual Business Forum
The all new award-winning Virtual Business Forum provides a platform where all levels of managers are able to exchange concepts and ideas about business issues currently experienced.
Virtual Business Forum can be applied in your organisation in various ways. In our experience it’s determined by our client’s needs for their business. We invite you to have Conversations that Matter!
 
VBF can be applied as follows, these are some ideas:
  • Increase awareness to leading business books in a discussion forum
  • Increase awareness amongst employees in your company
  • Increase communication about key issues with your employees
  • Create a level playing field for all employees to find innovative ideas annually
  • Create an open forum amongst your management team to find solutions
  • Encourage HR to use VBF to motivate and encourage employees
  • Challenge leaders in your organisation to be more innovative
Global Client Stories
 
Fortune 500 Consumer Company
 
  • Within the first week of using VBF:
  • 600 responses
  • 18 ideas were implemented into the business
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company
 
  • Decided to use VBF to address a key business issue
  • Solved the issue within 3 days
Learning Solutions and Applications
getAbstract is much more than simply the world's largest repository of business book expert knowledge.   It offers a complete Enterprise Learning Solution to address the myriad of Learning Applications within your organisation. Read more…
 
Learning Solutions Enterprise Architecture
Much more than a simple collection of book summaries, getAbstract's Learning Solution Enterprise Architecture provides a complete, configurable solution to empower continuous learning in your organization. It offers tailor-made content, rapid access and an impressive range of titles and subjects. Read more…
 
End User Services:
 
  • Compressed Knowledge
Staying abreast of key business trends is critical to business success. And much of this expert knowledge resides in business books. But the average business book takes 5-10 hours to read. And thus the typical manager reads just one business book a year, stifling his or her access to important knowledge. Read more…
 
  • Rapid Access Search
The larger the library, the more important a fast, effective search function becomes. getAbstract's state-of-the-art Rapid Access Search enables anyone in your organization to find relevant expert knowledge in getAbstract's 4,500+ summaries with as few as two clicks. Truly information at your fingertips! Read more…
 
  • Personalised Summary Service
How can you foster continuous learning in your organization? Learning that is personally tailored to each individual, as well as designed to increase expertise and overall value in your company?
getAbstract's Personalized Summary Service offers just that. Read more...
 
  • Advanced Delivery
In a fast-paced competitive world, people want information to map the way they work. Sometimes they want to scan book summaries online in their Web browsers, from work or home, or print them out for offline review. Read more…
 
  • Competency Lists
One of the main challenges for any organization is to get the right knowledge to the right people. Static libraries typically deliver the same books to every individual in the organization, be they the CEO or the junior sales person, the marketing staff or the finance staff, the TQM project members or the strategy team.   Read more…
 
Enterprise Services
  • Competency Builder
Learning in organizations is dynamic, varied and continuous. It happens at different levels, within different functions and as part of special projects. Read more…
 
  • Snap-in Enterprise Integrator
To promote continuous learning within your organization, getAbstract's Snap-In Enterprise Integrator provides fast, seamless integration of getAbstract's library into your existing intranet Web site. Read more…
 
  • Usage Analytics
getAbstract customers are excited by the dramatically increased usage they achieve with the getAbstract Enterprise Solution. 
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Global Case Studies