The Chief Learning Officer and preparedness training

Now, this is an seemingly unrelated story; HOWEVER, just think of the potential the business community has if this concept catches on with all the big players. The issue is is the rise of the CLO: Chief Learning Officer. Although it appears from the article below that the overall goal here is to tailor learning to the company's mission and goals, I would think continuity of operations would be one of THE biggest goals a company could have. Now we've made the link back to preparedness, whereby the CLO can bring personal preparedness, business preparedness, facility health and safety concepts, and continuity of operations concepts and training tools to all company employees.

To underscore my point:
"Bringing learning to the table is one of the biggest strategic advantages a company can have today," said Bill Byron Concevitch, chief learning officer for Verint Systems Inc., a global leader in work force optimization, which provides software solutions to help businesses and government agencies make sense of data. "If learning isn't woven into the fabric of the culture, a business will struggle to be successful and might not even know why it's not."

Concevitch sees his job as "giving the right people the right skills, at the right time, [to prepare them for] where they need to be."

Full article available at:
http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/content/hotjobs/careercenter/articles/2007/12/07/1209_clos.html