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Through its association with getAbstract, Business Abstracts specialises in tailoring learning solutions to best meet the needs of companies and develop employee skills and expertise. We aim to make our client companies in Australia and New Zealand among the best-read, most expert players on the business scene today. Our mission is to provide these companies with the essence of the world's best business knowledge and to assist them reap the benefits from inculcating a culture of collaborative learning.

Business Abstracts is run by Ted Doraisamy, who actively and successfully promoted continuous learning within the organisations he led. A very experienced and successful marketer, Ted’s 20-year career with major blue-chip multinational companies in Asia and Australia included senior management roles at Johnson & Johnson, The Gillette Company, Oral-B Laboratories and Sunbeam Corporation.

About getAbstract

Based in Switzerland, with offices in Lucerne and Miami (USA), getAbstract is the world’s leading knowledge-compression firm. The company was founded in 1998 and is majority-owned by its management. getAbstract employs more than 120 knowledge-professionals to produce its 50 new summaries every month.

How does getAbstract work?

getAbstract is the most straightforward and intuitive blended learning solution for your employees in the fields of leadership, management, marketing, human resources, finance and strategy.

getAbstract does something incredibly simple. Its global editorial team examines more than 6,000 of the most recognised business books each year and summarises the best of them in a 5-page format. Each summary is electronically delivered in PDF, MP3, Palm or Microsoft Reader format. The result is a comprehensive library that today includes more than 4,500 summaries and is currently the largest reference content database for business professionals in the world.

The getAbstract Library is structured in approximately 90 categories, an organisation that enables your employees to find relevant learning content quickly. This tremendous concentration of knowledge will provide your employees with a decisive competitive advantage that you cannot obtain anywhere else.

How you benefit from getAbstract Compressed Knowledge™

1. High usage: With getAbstract you will achieve high usage of your corporate LMS or Intranet. Our learning content is highly attractive due to its intuitive presentation and applicability.
    
2. High ROI: getAbstract raises the level of business management knowledge in your company while filtering out all of the academic stuff. This translates into measurable time savings and actual learning effect. Your employees get tools and content that they can actually use.
    
3. Personalised service: The weekly Personalised Summary Service® delivers precisely the content that your employees need for their jobs. They tell us what they’re interested in and we send them the relevant summaries. Personalised interest profiles can be adjusted at any time. This service is automatically included in every getAbstract solution. Of course, all users have unrestricted access to the entire getAbstract library at any time and can download as many summaries as they wish.
    
4. Save time: Who has time to click through a complicated learning program? Your employees download summaries with a single mouse click, print them out and read them right away. Or they can download the summaries to their PDAs (personal digital assistants) or MP3 players — the perfect solution for people on the go.
    
5. Blended learning: getAbstract can be used in the office or at home, both online and offline. This increases the attractiveness of the content and frees up productive working time.
    
6. Global perspective: Since getAbstract constantly summarises the content of the best business books from more then 250 global publishers, a continuous flow of fresh and relevant learning content is guaranteed. With this comprehensive library your employees won't miss a business trend, no matter where it originates.
    
7. Legitimacy: Your employees won't wonder where the learning content comes from. getAbstract's editorial team examines more than 6,000 business books each year and rates them with respect to applicability and innovation. Only select the best are selected for you — written by the world’s most respected business authors. All summaries are copyrighted and publisher approved and may not be distributed elsewhere without permission.
    
8. Editorial excellence: The summaries are written by getAbstract's world-class editorial team. These writers also publish in The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, BusinessWeek and in other leading publications in the USA and in Europe.
    
9. Easy to implement, easy to maintain: All content is hosted on the getAbstract servers. Web-based usage tracking provides full transparency and control. The implementation takes just minutes and is virtually maintenance-free.
    
10. Customisation and service: No matter what your needs are, getAbstract has the technical and professional solutions in place to customise the content in almost unlimited ways – from competency matching to search integration.

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