http://joshbersin.com Josh Bersin's Comments on Enterprise Learning and Talent Management Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The LMS Market Remains Hot with PeopleFluent Deal (but not as hot as Facebook) http://joshbersin.com/2012/02/03/the-lms-market-remains-hot-with-peoplefluent-deal-but-not-as-hot-as-facebook/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/02/03/the-lms-market-remains-hot-with-peoplefluent-deal-but-not-as-hot-as-facebook/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:51:37 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4298 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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/02/03/the-lms-market-remains-hot-with-peoplefluent-deal-but-not-as-hot-as-facebook/feed/ 0 The End of a Job as we Know It http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/30/the-end-of-a-job-as-we-know-it/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/30/the-end-of-a-job-as-we-know-it/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:50:21 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4176

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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/30/the-end-of-a-job-as-we-know-it/feed/ 0 Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/27/getting-bullish-on-sap-in-the-hr-marketplace/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/27/getting-bullish-on-sap-in-the-hr-marketplace/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:18:33 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4189 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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/27/getting-bullish-on-sap-in-the-hr-marketplace/feed/ 0 The Business Case for Talent Management: Steve Ballmer Agrees http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/22/the-business-case-for-talent-management-steve-ballmer-agrees/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/22/the-business-case-for-talent-management-steve-ballmer-agrees/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:39:34 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4150 Talent management makes money.

If you are trying to build a business case for a corporate talent management program, here is some astounding data:

Of the 700+ organizations we studied in 2010 and 2011, only 7% told us that they have a “strategic talent management” program. We defined talent management in four levels of ... Read more»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/22/the-business-case-for-talent-management-steve-ballmer-agrees/feed/ 0 Dream Job for World-Class Instructional Designer Available http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/19/dream-job-for-world-class-instructional-designer-available/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/19/dream-job-for-world-class-instructional-designer-available/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:19:41 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4139 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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/19/dream-job-for-world-class-instructional-designer-available/feed/ 0 Yikes. Training spending up 9.5%, highest increase in 3+ years! A renaissance. http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/17/yikes-training-spending-is-up-9-5-highest-in-3-years-a-renaissance/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/17/yikes-training-spending-is-up-9-5-highest-in-3-years-a-renaissance/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:28:02 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4122 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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/17/yikes-training-spending-is-up-9-5-highest-in-3-years-a-renaissance/feed/ 0 We are Greater than Me: Building an Agile Organization http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/11/we-are-greater-than-me-building-an-agile-organization/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/11/we-are-greater-than-me-building-an-agile-organization/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:31:49 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4098 Late last year I attended two major talent and leadership conferences in Stockholm. At these events I had the opportunity to meet with various HR leaders at Electrolux, Ericsson, Logica, BT, Maersk, Grundfos, Unicredit, Bertelsman, and others. What I learned is something important that we are building into a broad research framework I plan to ... Read more»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/11/we-are-greater-than-me-building-an-agile-organization/feed/ 0 Talent Management Software Vendors get a C+ in Customer Satisfaction http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/03/talent-management-software-vendors-get-a-c-in-customer-satisfaction/ http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/03/talent-management-software-vendors-get-a-c-in-customer-satisfaction/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:38:12 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4058 We just completed a year-long research study on the customer experience with talent management software. Despite the sky-high market valuations for these companies and the growth rate of the market, these products are not fully meeting customer needs. In fact, among the 1,146 companies we surveyed, their average overall satisfaction is 3.65 on a scale ... Read more»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2012/01/03/talent-management-software-vendors-get-a-c-in-customer-satisfaction/feed/ 1 Salesforce.com to Acquire Rypple: Major New Entrant to Cloud-Based Talent Management Market http://joshbersin.com/2011/12/16/salesforce-com-to-acquire-rypple-major-new-entrant-to-cloud-based-talent-management-market/ http://joshbersin.com/2011/12/16/salesforce-com-to-acquire-rypple-major-new-entrant-to-cloud-based-talent-management-market/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:29:13 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4028 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»

]]> http://joshbersin.com/2011/12/16/salesforce-com-to-acquire-rypple-major-new-entrant-to-cloud-based-talent-management-market/feed/ 1 My Conversation with Paul Sparta: Update on Plateau, SAP, and SuccessFactors http://joshbersin.com/2011/12/12/my-conversation-with-paul-sparta-update-on-plateau-sap-and-successfactors/ http://joshbersin.com/2011/12/12/my-conversation-with-paul-sparta-update-on-plateau-sap-and-successfactors/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:27:47 +0000 joshbersin http://joshbersin.com/?p=4002 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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