Do you want to keep up with the latest thinking from industry experts? At Saffron we aim to be at the forefront of developments in learning and training. That’s why we established our exclusive Advance™ community in 2002 as an independent think tank within Saffron Interactive.

The primary purpose of Advance™ is to undertake original research and publish regular articles looking at critical human capital issues facing businesses. Advance™ members - the Saffron 100 - are drawn from a cross section of key decision makers within the learning and development community, and their experiences are leveraged across the group. Past contributors include Clive Shepherd, Brian Sutton, Charles Jennings, Vaughan Waller and Laura Overton.

To view some of our recent Advance™ articles or hear the associated Podcasts, please click on the links below.

• Rapid e-Learning: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
• The Point-of-Need: where effective learning really matters
• Learning’s Environmental Crisis
• Vive la Révolution: e-Learning 2.0
• e-Learning is not an event, it’s a stage on a journey
• The impact of feedback
• Twenty-first-century e-learning: are the dreams still to come true?
• Writing for the reader: banishing the business speak and energising your e-learning
• Recession proof your learning provision
• Delivering global e-learning programmes
• Accessibility: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
• The advance of social media

• Rapid e-Learning - an interview with Hanif Sazen
• Informal Learning - an interview with Brian Sutton
• Virtual Worlds - an interview with Clive Shepherd