Enterprise Learning
Posted on February 3rd, 2012.
The LMS market remains very hot, and so does Facebook (below). Comments on both.
This week Peoplefluent (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria and Peopleclick) announced the acquisition of Strategia, a small but very successful enterprise learning management systems company. Strategia was a Canadian enterprise LMS company with … Read more»
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Posted on January 30th, 2012.
The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away.
Over the last year I’ve been speaking with many corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign organizations so we can learn faster, communicate better, … Read more»
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Posted on January 27th, 2012.
SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1.6 billion. And now that the company has announced its plans to acquire SuccessFactors for … Read more»
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Posted on January 19th, 2012.
Are you a great instructional designer looking for an exciting new opportunity?
Would you like to help design cutting-edge, market leading instructional content for a global audience?
Are you looking for the opportunity to learn and apply new media and blended approaches to a new library of learning offerings?
If you answered yes to these … Read more»
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Posted on January 17th, 2012.
Wow. After more than three years of decline in spending, corporate training budgets just jumped up 9.5% last year. (Just released, 2012 Bersin & Associates Corporate Learning Factbook®). Good news for corporate HR teams and business leaders in general.
This is a huge increase, bringing the average spending per employee to over $800, or … Read more»
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Posted on December 16th, 2011.
Today Salesforce.com announced plans to acquire Rypple, a small but growing provider of social performance management software. In addition, the company announced plans to build out a set of human capital management products called SuccessForce (quite a stab in the eye to SuccessFactors), built on the “social enterprise” which Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com) has … Read more»
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Posted on December 12th, 2011.
Today I had a chat with Paul Sparta, the founder of Plateau and one of the key product leaders at SuccessFactors and now SAP. Paul, who’s current title is Chief Integration Officer, shared some important thoughts with me which I felt were worth publishing.
1. As a result of the acquisition, the SuccessFactors … Read more»
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Posted on December 7th, 2011.
We all know that talent management is a hot topic in business today. SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion demonstrates how important this market is to businesses around the world.
But ultimately it isn’t software that drives business results: it’s the practices of talent management that matters. Our research shows that companies which … Read more»
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Posted on November 6th, 2011.
The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the same time – and let me explain why.
History of the Space
Originally these systems were designed as forms automation systems, often … Read more»
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Posted on October 18th, 2011.
While you may not be a baseball fan, you have to admit that this movie (and book) is really all about Human Resources. Billy Beane learned that by using data shrewdly he could build a high-performing team at a fraction the cost of his competitors. Isn’t this what strategic HR is all about?
I’ve had … Read more»
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