Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
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Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
Don’t think about gas prices for a minute. Don’t think about the cost of airfare now that fuel has gone up.
Instead, try thinking about optimizing your budget, responding quickly to industry and product changes, and increasing your associates’ productivity. Use this mindset when debating about how you can reduce expenses--not only for your travelling trainers and their programs, but for your employee students and those of your clients that otherwise need to go offsite to faraway places.
According to a study at Forrester Research that encompassed domestic North American travel, “travel for internal meetings and training averages $1,200 to $1,500”. This does not even take into account the obligatory downtime that occurs during travel and other non-training times.
Some go the route of creating online coursework, but for many the immediate need for training that can be easily managed both logistically and financially is better handled through Web conferencing--more specifically by webinar.
Set up for local or distant populations, webinars can be easily accessed without leaving your desk as opposed to going to some training room or facility. What’s great about these sessions is that they also give attendees the feeling of an “in-person” experience and provide them with tools to help encourage …
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