The margins generated by a single tutor dispensing knowledge to 20 to 100 students are hard to match. The increase in value for money or effectiveness of any new approach would have to be significant, of an order of magnitude at least in order for the same profitability to be reached or else it would require significant premium pricing. The local learning concept is simple. With participants focusing on issues which affect the business directly. Point of view imposed is from the executive's desk.
Solutions evolve and are created by the executives.
Follow-up and follow through are by tutors and other executives. Executives and managers may mentor and tutor each other. Explanation of complex concepts best understood through dialogue must be immediate or soon. Tutorial support would be on subjects as required and would involve the invitation of tutors to join the space. This invention led in turn to the need for a further concept, that of virtual faculty.