Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Over the last ten years the learning technology industry has undergone radical change. With a flurry of acquisitions and many new technologies now available for learning, it is increasingly difficult for a corporate training manager to develop an integrated learning platform. In this article I review the history of this space and point out some ... Read more»
I’m excited to announce that Bersin & Associates has become Bersin by Deloitte.
Our business is now a growing enterprise within Deloitte, a global professional services firm.
As part of Deloitte Consulting LLP, we will be able to enhance our growth, expand our global reach, and deepen our relationships with clients. This acquisition gives ... Read more»
We just completed the brand new version of our enduring research, The High-Impact Learning Organization (HILO). This research, which involves several years of effort, uncovered some groundbreaking new findings and rich new set of tools and assessments to help organizations improve.
In this blog post I’ll highlight our new HILO Maturity Model, our new Enterprise ... Read more»
Social networking tools have transformed our lives. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest (read my commentary about Pinterest here), Reddit, and many others have significantly changed the way we work. The concept of an “activity stream” is now commonplace and we can connect, share, and communicate with people like never before.
And these ... Read more»
Am I a girl? I love Pinterest.
Whenever a new website enters the market I try to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out Twitter, and I still don’t like Facebook (I dont like sharing so much), but Pinterest has really grabbed me.
Why is this? Because I am a visual ... Read more»
I’m excited to announce that this week we launched our Employee Recognition research, a program we started early last year.
As I’m sure you know, organizations around the world are suffering from low levels of employee engagement for many reasons. The unemployment rate is high, people are working harder than ever, and employees are ... Read more»
This week ADP, the largest HR company in the world, introduced its integrated talent management solution (and its own learning management system). This announcement has the potential to significantly impact the human capital and talent management software markets.
Background on ADP
You probably think ADP is a payroll company. Tt is much more. In ... Read more»
The HR analytics market has gotten white hot. With all the HR and talent management software out there, companies are now starting to invest very heavily in their HR analytics strategies. (For more on this topic, read about our BigData in HR research.)
Our research shows that only around 7% of HR organizations have reached ... Read more»
Despite the recent acquisitions of Taleo by Oracle and SuccessFactors by SAP, the talent management software market is far from mature. Today SilkRoad, one of the more quiet (not for long) talent management software vendors, announced a $35 Million Series C round of funding.
The new investors include Keating Capital (Nasdaq: KIPO) and NTT ... Read more»
Looking for a job is like playing the dating game: you’re like a lover looking for the best mate, and the employer is playing the same game in reverse.
( The Dating Game, a TV show in the 1970s, let women select from three “eligible bachelors.” It was among the most popular shows of ... Read more»
Another amazing quarter from LinkedIn: revenues of $188.5 Million, up 101%, with the “hiring solutions” business now driving $102.6 Million or 54% of company revenue. LinkedIn’s revenues in the corporate recruiting market are now larger than Taleo, SuccessFactors, Kenexa, and nearly every other software company which sells recruiting solutions.
Let me highlight some of the ... Read more»
The topics of BigData in HR is white hot. This week we launched our BigData in HR research study, which describes precisely how world-class organizations build high performing talent analytics functions. This research represents the culmination of many years of work, talking with hundreds of companies and many vendors in the market.
In this article ... Read more»
BigData is Big News.
Splunk, a company that uses BigData technology to analyze huge amounts of customer and transaction data, just went public with a valuation at 28X revenue ($3.2 billion). This valuation trumps the hot companies in social networking: Jive trades at 20X revenue, Google trades at 5X revenue, and Facebook, ... Read more»
Today’s workforce has changed tremendously. It’s younger, more specialized, looking for better work… and it’s virtual.
By the year 2014, 47% of US workers will be under the age of 35. And these younger workers are just as smart and hard-working as we baby-boomers are.
Yet today entry level positions are very hard to find. ... Read more»
IMPACT 2012 was amazing this week. For those of you who couldn’t make it, let me give you a few highlights:
The conference theme was “Building Business Agility” – and throughout the conference more than 450 HR and L&D executives attended sessions on how to build global programs, drive employee engagement, create continuous learning programs, ... Read more»