On April 6-8, 2010,
in St. Petersburg Florida, we will be hosting our third-annual Research Conference on Enterprise Learning and Talent Management: IMPACT 2010. The lineup for this year’s conference is the best ever – so I want to give you my thoughts on why you should bring your team to Florida for the best event in our industry.
1. This conference…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Today Skillsoft announced that the company is being acquired by a private equity firm for approximately $1.1 billion. 
This acquisition price reflects a 14% premium over the public share price and a price to sales ratio of 3.3, which is quite high for a company of this size.
Why did this private equity firm decide to acquire the company? Essentially the company is already very highly valued, yet its market…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Today SuccessFactors announced plans to acquire InfoHRM (renamed Inform Business Impact) – a small but very well established leader in the area of HR and Talent Analytics and Workforce Planning. We believe this acquisition is very significant for the talent and HR systems marketplace: it now establishes SuccessFactors as the emerging leader in the broad and important area of delivering actionable talent and HR measurement and…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This week I had the opportunity to keynote the largest learning conference in the UK, the UK Learning Technologies Conference (developed and run by Donald H. Taylor, one of the most knowledgeable professionals in our industry). The title of my presentation was “Informal Learning: What, Why, and How – and what it means to You.”
The thesis of the presentation is that three…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )It’s here, our Corporate Learning and Talent Management Predictions for 2010. Each year for the last six years we have published an in-depth report on our predictions for the coming year. This year we have 12, and they are described in detail in this free report.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )In the last 60 days I’ve had the opportunity to attend five major industry events which cover corporate learning: user group meetings at Plateau, Saba, SumTotal and Taleo and the HR Technology Conference. While all this travel has taken a toll on my sleep, it did reinforce the tremendous importance of corporate learning technology.
In this blog I would like to highlight a few recent thoughts for us to consider:
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )The corporate training industry is undergoing some major changes. Over last few months we have been involved in many discussions with organizations about the tremendous needs to build, manage, and formalize their social and collaborative learning programs. This is being driven by many factors: the slowing economy, the “always-connected” nature of the workforce, and the explosion of social software tools and platforms now available.
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The term SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a hot topic among HR and L&D software providers. In fact, many of the HR software buyers use stories about their “SaaS-iness” as their major selling points.
To try to help demistify this topic, I’d like to take some time to explain what SaaS means to a buyer of HR or L&D software.
(Seperately from this, we have started a research report on this topic,…
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Even in this year’s terrible economy, the Talent Management Software market continues to show signs of life. We estimate this important market will reach around $2.4 Billion by the end of 2009 and continues to grow in size and importance.
How the Talent Management Software Market is Expanding
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Josh Bersin is President and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory services firm in enterprise learning and talent management.
