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Do you have a mobile strategy that works at scale? Is it sustainable? Does the speed and complexity of the world of smartphones and tablets leave you wondering where to start?

LINE’s expert, experienced consultants have a broad, practical knowledge of effective, secure mobile solutions and how to make them work within your infrastructure and culture.

The LINE Mobile HealthCheck approach is underpinned by a proven process and a set of tools to define an effective creation, management and distribution strategy. We engage with the relevant stakeholders to gain agreement and commitment to the strategy and actions needed to deliver it. Read more…

A recent LINE survey of Learning and Development professionals showed that 52% were familiar with the concept of Learning Architectures. In addition, response to our articles and white papers on the subject, and the reception of our recent workshop event at the Royal Institution, as reported on by Peter Williams in the e.learning age Magazine, all reinforce the impression that this is an idea whose idea has come.
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In the first installment of a two-part report, John Helmer wanders the aisles of Olympia at Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2012 – and gets the fear.

Still glowing with pride at being named the company people felt they had the most profitable conversation with at Learning Technologies in the exit poll, LINE people are looking back on a great show this year. The stand, a towering Bauhaus-inspired construction, was rammed both days, the talks went down brilliantly, and many new exciting programmes and relationships were undoubtedly kicked off.

But enough about LINE – what was everybody else saying doing, seeing and thinking at this indispensible event in the learning calendar? What’s the hot gossip, and what are the important industry trends? What did we learn about learning at #LT12UK?

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In this article previously published in E-learning Age, Steve Barden, Head of Consulting at LINE looks at architectures and learning strategy.

Our previous discussions of the Learning Architectures concept will likely have left an important question in many minds. We talked about the capabilities that are needed within Learning & Development – the ‘building blocks’ of a Learning Architecture (see diagram) – but at what level of operation are we speaking here? Is it, at the level of the learning programme? Or are we talking about an organisation’s overall learning strategy?

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Is it R.I.P. for the e-learning course? Patrick Thomas LINE’s Key Account Director for the Energy Sector discusses.

I can’t recall when a single image has caused such a firestorm. Internally, colleagues were incensed that we were ringing the death knell for our bread-and-butter business. And later in a meeting with a client, they sardonically asked, “If that’s true, where does that leave LINE and the rest?”

We’re doing just fine, thank you.
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John Helmer reviews the latest report from Towards Maturity.

‘E-learning is not a panacea’: how many times have we seen these words in print? The statement has become a cliché. However, you will find it almost impossible to read the latest report from the benchmarking practice Towards Maturity without it popping into your head.

Because the evidence from the workface presented here, gathered over the past eight years and reflecting the experience of more than 1,800 learning professionals, shows that when it comes to technology-enabled learning, it ain’t what you do (to invoke another rather hoary old cliché) it’s the way that you do it. That’s what gets results.

Technology really can help you get better bottom-line benefits for the business from your learning and development activities, but it takes a bit of work to get there.

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Piers Lea, CEO, discusses the current and 2012 landscape for mobile learning.

It is nearly two years since I gave the opinion, on this blog, that it was time for organisations to embrace mobile learning. Now in 2012, demand for mobile services is growing, not just for learning, but throughout the enterprise.

A survey we conducted recently among learning professionals shows that 94% of organisations are between the stage of vesting interest in mobile technology and the full implementation stage.
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According to a study by McAfee and Carnegie Mellon University, 33% of employees keep sensitive information on mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets (such as iPads) and even music players with hard drives (such as iPods). While most organisations (95%) have a mobile device security strategy in place, 65% of employees were unaware of the details of that strategy. More than 8,500 of these same devices were left at UK airports in 2010. These three factors highlight the need for a strong mobile security strategy.

The study above found that mobile security was a two-way problem: employees were using personal mobile devices for work and work-issued devices for personal activities. While many of the latter activities were sanctioned, employees were not aware of the security risks involved.

With more employees demanding access to corporate services on their mobile devices, security should therefore be high on the agenda.

In this brief post, I’d like to highlight three aspects of mobile security:
• Device security
• Security of data
• Security of content
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Could the key to making L&D fly in your organisation be giving away iPads to every member of staff? Think about it for a minute.

Intense competition in the tablet sector, with Barnes and Noble piling into the market hard on the heels of Amazon and Blackberry, is causing downward price pressure and driving innovation in a scramble to find the most attractive form factor and feature set – against a background of fast-growing consumer demand. We seem to be looking at a future of ubiquity for readers and tablets.

Which for me raises the question, should businesses perhaps hand out free iPads with every induction pack?
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Celebrations sparked out all over the Capital last night as LINE London emerged 11-9 winners over Sheffield in the inter-office football match at the Westway Sports Centre.

Played shortly before LINE’s Christmas party, it was the most hotly anticipated festive battle between rivals since the Christmas game in the trenches in 1914. Playing in honour of his military ancestors was Major Roy Evans. He might have shocked his forebears, however, when he controversially switched sides from Sheffield to London to even the numbers. The home team would have struggled without him as Nigerian international, Niyi Ademosu, was still getting changed at kick-off.
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