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Posted on February 12th, 2010.
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…
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Posted on January 31st, 2010.
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…
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Posted on June 25th, 2009.
As we read and hear about the tumultuous news
in Iran and North Korea, it occurs to me that so much of our daily life, news, and time is now spent on global issues. This trend impacts the corporate HR and L&D function as well.
I recently completed a presentation and roundtable at the ASTD (American Society of Training & Development) on best practices in…
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Posted on March 10th, 2009.
In preparation for our upcoming research conference IMPACT 2009: The Business of Talent®, I just finished a conference call with six executives from well known HR and corporate training outsourcing companies: Accenture, Convergys, General Physics, Intrepid Learning Solutions, NIIT, and RWD. Together, these six companies…
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Posted on January 21st, 2009.
It’s now official. After surveying our entire research membership and having more than 30 conversations with leading HR and learning leaders (including with Xerox, Accenture, British Telecom, Edward Jones, Department of Defense, and Network Appliance), I am now 100% convinced that “informal learning” has become “formal.” That is, if you want to build a high-impact, cost-effective, modern training organization you must “formally adopt” informal learning.
So what does this all mean? A few statistics:
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008.
This month we are launching The High Impact Learning Organization®, a research study which has been more than three years in development. During this time we have interviewed hundreds of corporate HR and training leaders and reviewed in-depth trends of more than 780 global organizations.
Audio Overview of this research: click here.
As I have been discussing this research with our…
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Posted on April 7th, 2008.
This week we talked with five top Chief Learning Officers representing training leadership at EMC, Extra Space Storage, MetLife, Textron, and Trinity Health. This group of learning leaders will be discussing their L&D strategies and solutions at our upcoming research conference.
One of the biggest topics we discussed was how to build a corporate training organization which is highly aligned with the business’s most urgent needs. In each…
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Posted on April 1st, 2008.
This week I had a call with five financial services clients to understand the impact of the economic slowdown on their learning, talent, and systems investments. How are HR, talent strategies, and enterprise learning investments being affected by the credit crunch and slowdown in the US financial system?
(The clients included companies in banking and insurance: TD Bank Financial Group, First Horizon National Corporation, BNY Mellon Asset Management, Manulife Financial, and Wachovia.)
I was encouraged to…
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Posted on March 28th, 2008.
Training measurement continues to be a challenge in our industry. In fact, it is one of the top three areas of concern on the minds of corporate training managers.
We have been studying this issue for more than five years now, and much of our findings are now available in a new book The…
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Posted on March 12th, 2008.
As we read more and more about talent management suites and the rapid growth in the market for integrated HR software, what has happened to the market for learning management systems? I’d like to provide our readers a brief update, with more details available in our research library.
1. The LMS market continues to grow.
The LMS market will reach over $700 Million this year and it continues to grow. While more than 70%…
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