How to Build a High-Impact Learning Culture

Posted on June 14th, 2010.

Over the last ten years we have studied many elements of Human Resources and corporate training with a goal of identifying which practices, processes, structures, and systems drive the greatest business impact.

This week we are launching one of the most significant research reports we have published to date:   Read more»

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SuccessFactors Lays down the Analytics Gauntlet: Acquires Inform (InfoHRM)

Posted on February 5th, 2010.

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… Read more»

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The Woman-Powered Economy

Posted on October 20th, 2009.

There are many demographic changes taking place in the US workforce today.  Perhaps one of the most profound and personal is the rapid growth of women in the working population.  This month “The Shriver Report” is being released – a comprehensive look at the growing role of women in the… Read more»

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Thoughts from the 2009 HR Technology Conference

Posted on October 6th, 2009.

Once each year we travel to Chicago to gather with Bill Kutik and dozens of HR vendors to see the latest and greatest technologies applied to human resources.

HR Technology ConferenceThis year’s conference was as exciting as ever, with many product announcements and exciting innovations to see.   Madeline Laurano, our principal… Read more»

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SumTotal Bidding War Continues – HR Software gets Hotter

Posted on May 16th, 2009.

The LMS market continues to heat up as two private equity firms bid for SumTotal Systems.  LMS 2009This week Vista Equity Partners upped its bid to $4.75 a share (up from $3.80 several weeks ago), bringing SumTotal’s market capitalization to over $150 Million.  (This is nearly twice the market cap… Read more»

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IBM Adopts Saba as its Learning Technology Partner

Posted on May 13th, 2009.

A IBM Sabavery important partnership was announced today: IBM announced a major commitment to Saba as its primary learning management technology partner.

Background on IBM’s Learning Platform Business:

IBM has been in the corporate learning market for many years. In the 1980′s, the company offered a wide… Read more»

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Oracle Acquires Sun: A Lesson in Corporate Culture

Posted on April 23rd, 2009.

For those of us who have been in the software industry for a while, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun represents a bigOracle-Sunmilestone in the evolution of the the computing industry.    Why did the IBM-Sun merger fail?  Why was Oracle willing to pay so much more for the company… Read more»

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Talent Mobility: What it is and why organizations need it

Posted on March 26th, 2009.

Talent MobilityOne of the themes of our exciting new Succession Management research is what we call “transparent talent mobility.”  It’s an important new concept in talent management, and one which came to us after more than a year of research into various succession management programs.

Let me start with the underlying… Read more»

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Deep vs. Wide: The New Career Strategy

Posted on February 6th, 2009.

Times are tough.  Today we learned of another 590,000 jobs lost and that US unemployment rose to 7.6%.  We seem to be getting several emails each week from high powered HR or L&D professionals who have lost their positions at their favorite employers.  

I also speak regularly with top HR and L&D managers about their… Read more»

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Enterprise Social Software: A New Category

Posted on October 2nd, 2008.

This week we introduced some important and groundbreaking research on a new, important category of enterprise software:  the market for corporate Social Software platforms.   Traditionally our research has focused on identifying the strategies, processes, and systems which help corporate HR and L&D drive effectiveness and business value.  But as… Read more»

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