Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., April 30, 2001 – The proliferation of failed knowledge management and training initiatives is driving executives to take more control of their corporate training programs, according to Dr. William Pilder, senior vice president of KnowledgePool, and one of many speakers at Strategies 2002: The Catalyst for Technology Learning. The Strategies 2002 Conference will be held May 7-9 in Chicago.

"Companies are recognizing the strategic advantages of developing human capital to meet specific business needs and objectives," said Dr. Pilder, whose presentation is entitled "Taking Charge of Your Corporate Training Agenda." "Executives are launching aggressive initiatives that drive their organization’s agenda, developing the talent and skills that will fortify the core competencies of the organization to accelerate business opportunity, performance and success."

Strategies 2002 attendees will also see the unveiling of newly proposed competencies from the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (ibstpi) for instructor-led and online instruction. Attendees will be able to provide first-hand feedback to IBSTPI board members on the newly proposed competencies.

"IBSTPI competencies have been the basis for quality instructor-led training for years," said Dennis Fields, Professor at St. Cloud State University and IBSTPI board representative. "Because so many training and education professionals use the IBSTPI competencies to gauge the quality of instruction, attendees will be actively participating in defining what is quality instruction in both an instructor led format as well as an electronic format."

CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, is a not-for-profit trade association, providing the technology community standards in the areas of Internet-enabled service provision, e-commerce, vendor-neutral technical certification, CRM, public policy, workforce development and training. Representing the computing and communications market for over 20 years, CompTIA has more than 10,000 corporate members in 78 countries, and 10,500 individual professional members. Almost half a million individuals worldwide have earned CompTIA certifications. More information is available at www.comptia.org.

Elizabeth J. Spalding, CompTIA