As I wrote back in 2015, Feedback is the Killer App . Companies that tap into the collective wisdom of their employees almost always outperform their peers . Why? Because employees (not custome...
The corporate learning industry becomes more massive every day. We estimate that more than $280 billion is spent on training, upskilling, and professional certification programs and there are now...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/08/the-learning-record-store-comes-of-age/
This week Perceptyx, one of the veteran providers of employee survey and feedback, announced the acquisition of Waggl , one of the more innovative and powerful tools for employee feedback. Sinc...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/07/perceptyx-acquires-waggl-employee-voice-gets-real/
The market for employee surveys, feedback, and engagement tools is massive and it just got bigger. Workday announced plans to acquire Peakon , an enterprise-grade employee survey and feedback co...
I just finished a week of meetings discussing HR Technology and the Employee Experience and I want to give you some thoughts. This topic is enormously important, and it’s actually harder than i...
I’ve been studying the use of analytics in HR and L&D for almost 20 years, and it has been a fun but frustrating space. While many have believed in data as a critical part of HR and L&D, most o...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/07/people-analytics-market-growth-ten-things-you-need-to-know/
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 groundbrea...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/09/the-new-best-practices-of-a-high-impact-learning-organization/
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 analytic...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/04/new-research-bigdata-in-hr-as-huge-opportunity/
We all know that talent management is a hot topic in business today. SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion demonstrates how important this market is to businesses around the w...
While you may not be a baseball fan, you have to admit that this movie (and book) is really all about Human Resources. Billy Beane learned that by using data shrewdly he could build a high-perfo...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/10/moneyball-comes-to-human-resources-data-science-matters/
Next week we launch IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent®, our fourth annual research conference. For those of you who follow our blogs and our research, the conference is sold out. But if you ...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/04/impact-2011-live-streaming-mark-your-calendar/
On April 26-28, in beautiful St. Petersburg Florida, we will be holding our fourth annual research conference, IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent. I would really encourage you to join us. ...
This week we introduced our 2011 Corporate Learning Factbook (a “must-read” for any HR or training leader). This report, which we labor over each year, details spending on corporate train...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/01/the-turnaround-in-ld-spending-a-renaissance-in-corporate-training/
One of the most complex and fragmented parts of the talent management market is the world of employee assessments. Today two of the industry’s largest companies in this space, Previsor and SHL...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/01/shl-and-previsor-merge-new-global-leader-in-the-assessment-market/
Today a shoe dropped in the Learning Management Systems Market: Taleo announced plans to acquire Learn.com . Let me discuss this announcement from three perspectives: first, the impact on t...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/09/taleo-acquires-learn-com-a-shoe-drops-in-the-lms-market/
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 Planni...
In April we published our bi-annual State of Learning and Talent Measurement research and again the news is mixed. (Report available here at no charge.) A few tidbits for you to think about:...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/05/the-state-of-learning-and-talent-measurement-a-work-in-process/
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 outsour...
Ok we know times are tough. Our just-released TalentWatch® research (Winter 2009) found that 61% of all organizations now rate “financial pressure to cut costs” as one of their top two bu...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/02/how-to-reduce-costs-better-measure-training-to-cut-expenses/
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 ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/03/the-mysteries-of-training-measurement/
The role of chief learning officer has been hard to define for years. While it is becoming more prevalent (our research shows that approximately 30% of large organizations have a named CLO), th...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/07/the-new-chief-learning-officer-2008-and-beyond/
Compliance-related training is a very big business. Bersin & Associates estimates that complying with regulatory guidelines accounts for as much as 30% of training-related technology expenditu...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/07/management-of-compliance-training/
In our High Impact Learning Organization® research and workshops we talk with training managers and directors about their challenges in organization, management and governance. Nearly every ...
More than 240 books on Amazon.com and 90 articles on the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) website are devoted to the measurement and evaluation of training. There are also m...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/05/the-challenge-of-training-measurement/