Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
After many years studying the topics of corporate training, recruiting, mobility, and succession, we’re finally seeing the future of jobs and skills. And in this podcast, I try to summarize what’s going on.
Let me briefly discuss the issues here, and you’ll see much more to come in the Josh Bersin Academy and our research.... Read more»
This week the Learning Technologies Group announced the acquisition of GP Strategies, one of the mainstay training delivery and consultants in the world. Together the combined company will be over $750 Million in revenue and starts to look like one of the largest corporate learning consultancies in the world.
LTG has an interesting history. ... Read more»
The corporate learning market is growing like crazy. More than $4 billion is spent on content providers like LinkedIn, Coursera, Udemy, SkillSoft, and others – and the predominant paradigm is video. Video, a medium that exploded since the launch of iPhone and YouTube, is now one of the most compelling ways to tell a ... Read more»
I just finished reading the Congressional Final Committee Report of the Boeing 737 MAX and it’s quite a story (I marked it up for you to read.) It contains many lessons in leadership, so let me offer some thoughts.
First, for many decades Boeing has been an engineering icon. When I graduated from ... Read more»
In November of 2018, LinkedIn acquired Glint, an emerging leader in employee engagement and survey technology. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, and now the romance has paid off. Glint and LinkedIn Learning have gotten married.
Let me try to explain.
Glint is a fast-growing company in the employee ... Read more»
Over the last six weeks, all anyone has been talking about is COVID-19 crisis response, resilience, new models of leadership, and what I call The Big Reset.
Well, corporate learning has been doing a lot too. And in many ways, I believe we are going to learn our way out of ... Read more»
One of the biggest surprises of the pandemic is how “brittle” our society has become. A single tiny virus has managed to upset our lives, our economies, and our society. Not only are we worried about our personal health, but our financial system is threatened and we are arguing about state vs. federal, voting practices, ... Read more»
Over the last two years I’ve written a lot about the new trend toward corporate “Learning in the Flow of Work.” Well, it’s picking up speed.
First, as I describe in the video below, the domain has grown. Companies now have dozens of various learning tools, and they are all able to ... Read more»
The enormous market for training and learning tools is very fragmented. Today there are more than 200 LMS vendors, more than 30 LXP vendors, and thousands of vendors who build collaboration tools, mobile learning tools, content development tools, and analytics tools. (Roughly 12% of the $240 Billion corporate training market is spent on tools.)
While ... Read more»
Several months ago I started writing about Learning in The Flow Of Work, an idea based on many trends in the workforce today. (video details below.) Well, I want to give you an update: a lot of progress is happening.
On the technology side, almost every learning vendor is now adding tools to ... Read more»
The corporate training market is over $200 billion around the world[1] and it’s going through a revolution. While we often think of training as programs or courses, a new paradigm has arrived, one I call “Learning in the Flow of Work.” Let me explain.
How Corporate Training Evolved: From Classroom to PC to e-Learning ... Read more»
Over the last few months I’ve had a series of meetings with Chief Learning Officers, talent management leaders, and vendors of next generation learning tools. My goal has been simple: try to make sense of the new corporate learning landscape, which for want of a better word, we can now call “Digital Learning.” In this ... Read more»
The Learning Management Systems (LMS) marketplace is over $3 billion in size, and includes hundreds of platforms to help companies manage all aspects of their employee training. The problem is that most of these tools were designed in the early 2000’s when the phrase online learning meant “e-learning,” virtual classroom, and classroom education. Our research ... Read more»
We just finished our 9th annual research conference, IMPACT 2016, and I was once again inspired by the innovation, passion, and sharing among the 600 or so people who joined us. This year’s conference was entitled “Different by Design: The New Organization,” and we focused for three days on the many ways we are ... Read more»
One of the most disruptive changes we’ve seen in business over the last decade is the end of the traditional “career.”
People used to join companies for life: we would look for a great company when we got out of school, join the new-hire development program, pay our dues working up the ranks, and look ... Read more»
