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Corporate Learning NetworkHOW-TO GUIDE – CLN VIRTUAL SERVICES

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Learning Hub: instant access to the latest

research from IMD

This dynamic platform features webcasts, articles and leadership videos

from IMD. Search by keyword, category and channel to hone in on business

topics of your choice and develop as a global leader.

• Wednesday Webcasts: Stay on top of pertinent business topics with

these weekly episodes and mini-series featuring IMD Faculty and

renowned guest speakers.

• Team Casts: Boost team meetings with these short video highlights of

key business concepts, designed to stimulate reflection, debate and

learning.

• Leadership Video Series: Discover the real challenges of leadership at

the top with these exclusive interviews of leading CEOs.

• ‘How-to’ Series: Learn on-the-go with these short 3-minute videos

answering practical ‘how to’ questions.

• Insights @ IMD: Receive comprehensive coverage of the research,

presentations and interaction from IMD’s popular Discovery Events

with these in-depth articles.

• Book Summaries: Get key concepts with these effective summaries of

the latest business books published by IMD Faculty and top business

thinkers worldwide.

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Global Knowledge Platform: a personalized

experience

Tap into the latest management thinking from over a hundred worldwide

business sources, at the touch of a button. Updated daily, this rich library

features articles, videos and podcasts from across the globe, and offers a

tailored experience with its powerful search capabilities and built-in custom

widgets.

Get the latest knowledge from:

Business schools

Universities

Consulting companies

Web portals

Knowledge institutes

Business magazines

The Global Knowledge Platform offers a tailored experience by providing

users with the ability to customize their landing page based on their various

interests.

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World Competitiveness Online is a unique and comprehensive database on

the competitiveness of nations. It includes a 20-year time series from the

IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, the leading annual report published

by IMD since 1989.

The main functionalities include:

• Extensive country profiles, presented in a very visual and user-

friendly way

• Any combination of data for 61 countries, a 20-year time series

and more than 300 criteria

• Downloads (Excel and PDF)

• Excellent search and data filters

• Data can easily be re-used in other software for analysis

Statistics are updated as soon as new information becomes available. This

is ideal if you wish to work with the data.

To learn more on the IMD World Competitiveness Center go towww.imd.org/wcc

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IMD World Competitiveness Online Time series on competitiveness with interactive customization

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A - In order to create your myIMD account, follow the pathway below:1. Go to www.imd.org/cln/member or any page on www.imd.org2. Click on the `Sign in' (person icon) button on the upper right and on ‘Create an account’ on the pop-up which

appears. Make sure to select your company from the Member Company drop-down menu3. Once you have filled in all fields, click on the Submit button

B - If you already have a myIMD account:1. Go to www.imd.org/cln/member or any page on www.imd.org2. Click on the `Sign in' (person icon) button on the upper right 3. In the pop-up which appears enter your myIMD credentials (username and password)

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1 – ACCESSING OUR PLATFORMS WITH YOUR MYMD ACCOUNT

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To access the Learning Hub or Global Knowledge Platform, Wednesday Webcasts or World Competitiveness Onlineonce logged in, click on the square icon: in the upper right hand corner of the page, then select the service of your choice from the quick access pop-up menu.

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A – CREATING YOUR MYIMD ACCOUNT AND SIGNING IN

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Once logged in, you can access the currently playing webcast by selecting Wednesday Webcasts from the Services drop down menu once logged in. You will be redirected to the Wednesday Webcasts page:

2 – ACCESSING WEDNESDAY WEBCASTS

Click on the webcast title to play the latest Wednesday Webcast.

Click on the Schedule tab to display upcoming webcasts

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In the Schedule tab, you can click on the ‘Add to my calendar’ links to add webcasts to your Outlook/email client calendar.

2 – ACCESSING WEDNESDAY WEBCASTS

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On the landing page menu of the Learning Hub, you will find the following options:

• News: latest articles from IMD

• Auditorium: most recent webcasts

• Whitepaper Library: library of articles including Insights, Tomorrow’s Challenges and Book Summaries

• Video Library: library of videos including webcasts, teamcasts, how-to podcasts, 10-minute series and leadership interviews

3 – NAVIGATING THE HUB

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Whitepaper and Video Libraries offer 2 options for accessing content:

A: Using the ‘wheel’ and clicking on a category of interest

B: Using the search function and searching via keywords

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A keyword search returns results for all types of content. To display more results click on ‘See More’.

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The Auditorium displays the five most recent webcasts. Click on ‘Watch Now’ to play the latest webcast, or select one of the other webcasts from the left hand margin. As a reminder, webcasts older than 5 weeks can be accessed at any time via the Video Library.

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The Global Knowledge Platform provides access to aggregated knowledge from a wide range of business sources across the globe.

Advanced search with multiple filters

Drag and dropwidgets

IMD Videosand Articles by category

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To build your custom landing page, you can drag and drop the widgets from the left hand side into the space in the middle.

Widgets

• Latest Articles, Latest Videos and Latest Podcasts return results for the latest publications, videos and podcasts from worldwide business sources

• IMD Video returns the latest videos from IMD (webcasts, teamcasts, etc)

• My Latest Searches and My Latest Bookmarks enable you to save your search history right to your homepage

• My favourite Category/Topic: see next page

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Build your custom landing page

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Select the ‘My favourite Category/Topic widget to populate your page with your topics of interest. You can drag over as many widgets as you like.

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Build your custom landing page

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1. Choose your Topic from the drop down menu. Under Media Format, you can choose the desired format - selecting IMD Content will limit the results to IMD content only, while the other options return results from worldwide business sources.

2. Under Article Count, select the number of results you would like returned (1-15), then click on Save Changes to validate

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Build your custom landing page

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Here in this example

we selected:

Topic: Social Media

Media Format: IMD Content

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Build your custom landing page

The My favourite Category/Topic widget will then update with the appropriate results for your selection.

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You can also access IMD videos and articles by clicking on the colorful wheel icon located in the top right hand corner:

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Navigate the wheel

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Select a topic from the list on the left,

or by clicking directly on the wheel to get

Articles and Videos results from IMD

Navigate the wheel

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You can also search by keyword and topic by using the search bar located at the top of the page:

Enter keyword in search bar and

refine your search by Media Format and Categories

Search by keyword and topic

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Additional search filters at the bottom of the page enable you to further refine your search by Publisher Location and Type, and year of publication.

At any stage, click on ‘Wall’ in the upper left hand corner of the page to return to your customized landing page.

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Search by keyword and topic

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Explore this user-friendly, unique and comprehensive database on the competitiveness of nations.

To get started use the custom search located directly on the home page. Select your country, criteria and timeframe and click on ‘Start discovering’.

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Click on ‘Country Profiles’ in the main menu to get a comprehensive report on the selected country.

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Use our guided custom search to return complete, relevant results based on your selected country and criteria.

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For any questions regarding the Learning Hub

or accessing any of our other services:

Call us at +41 (0)21 618 03 96

Email cln@imd.org

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