Approximately ten years ago the founders of The Institute for Management Studies created AthenaOnline, a sister company to IMS, whose mandate was to explore ways to leverage technology to provide broader distribution of management and business knowledge to individuals and organizations.

Today AthenaOnline is recognized as a leader in the delivery of business knowledge through technology. Athena has won almost every major industry award and has been written about in Fortune, Wired, and Chief Learning Officer magazines as well as books on human interface design and various international publications and websites on training and computer systems.

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Athena's Knowledge Network system featuring the SmartByte™ delivery system, provides answers to business questions in 5 minutes or less. The Athena platform is designed for today's busy environment where employees may not have a full day, or even a couple of hours, to solve a problem. Athena's just-in-time methodology gives employees the answers they need, when they need them, to make better and faster decisions.

Using video, audio and animation Athena delivers an engaging experience to users that will help improve performance and the bottom-line. To learn more about AthenaOnline please please visit our website at http://www.athenaonline.com.

The Athena SmartBytes™ are concise briefings from renowned business experts delivered in five minutes or less. The only thing required to use the system is an Internet browser. Audio, video, text and graphics to help make the information clear and useful.

Athena works with consultants, authors, professors, and other subject matter experts to help break their knowledge into short modules that each deliver a single aspect of a problem or issue that an employee may be facing. The experts deliver the information in a manner that provides steps to help implement the knowledge gained. Each SmartByte is categorized in Athena's knowledgebase by the question it answers, keywords and concepts, type of delivery, faculty, and the level of expertise that the SmartByte is designed for.

Each SmartByte has it own functional container that allows employees to extend the usefulness of the briefing far beyond the information itself. Containers offer the ability to save knowledge assets, print out transcripts, send the assets to others (even if they are not a part of the network), and learn more about related topics or the faculty. Custom containers can even be built for your organization to include special functionality.

Athena has already created hundreds of SmartBytes. Subjects range from answering a telephone to strategic organizational design. Finding knowledge is easy with the Athena Business Knowledge Network, Athena's subscription based knowledge delivery system.

Athena can also help you build your own SmartBytes to deliver to your employees. They're a great way to get information out regarding new product introductions, organizational changes, or even employee orientation.