This week I attended the BetterUp Uplift conference and I really was impressed. This is a company that exploded into the market with an innovative coaching and employee wellbeing network built ar...
https://joshbersin.com/2024/04/betterup-manage-pioneering-ai-powered-platform-for-leaders/
Companies all over the world are buying and implementing skills technology throughout HR. But how do we know what to buy and make sure it’s all going to add value? In this video I unpack a diff...
https://joshbersin.com/2024/03/how-to-take-a-pragmatic-and-winning-approach-to-skills/
Companies spend more than $340 billion on employee training and development, averaging more than $1500 per employee per year. And this massive spend, which supports a global industry with hundred...
https://joshbersin.com/2024/03/the-340-billion-corporate-learning-industry-is-poised-for-disruption/
I’ve written about the Immersive Learning market often, each time pointing out the astounding learning power within these platforms. Now that we have consumer VR headsets like the Meta Quest an...
It’s almost Spring and we’re actively preparing for Irresistible 2024: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and Their Teams . Let me give you a brief rundown on what we’re planning and enco...
https://joshbersin.com/2024/02/irresistible-2024-join-us-this-may/
Thanks to Generative AI, we’re about to see the biggest revolution in corporate learning since the invention of the internet. And this new world, which will bring together personalization, know...
https://joshbersin.com/2024/02/autonomous-corporate-learning-platforms-arriving-now-powered-by-ai/
Of all the domains to be impacted by AI, perhaps the biggest transformation is taking place in corporate learning. After a year of experimentation, it’s now clear that AI will revolutionize thi...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/12/ai-is-transforming-corporate-learning-even-faster-than-i-expected/
This week we launched a two-year study of corporate leadership programs , and the results are staggering. Despite the pandemic, inflation, pressure for hybrid work, and a highly competitive labor...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/11/companies-have-been-neglecting-their-leadership-and-it-shows/
The corporate training industry is a $340 billion market, challenging every company to worry about onboarding, upskilling, management development, and training on hundreds of technologies and bus...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/introducing-the-learning-development-superclass/
This week Avature, a highly successful talent management platform company, formally entered the corporate learning market . And while the space is crowded, I think they have a big opportunity. ...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/avature-enters-training-market-with-focus-on-informal-learning/
SAP SuccessFactors, the largest HCM vendor in the market, has now delivered on their long-range promise of rethinking the way HR systems work. It has been a long and winding journey, but this wee...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/successfactors-delivers-on-hxm-and-the-promise-of-ai/
This week Microsoft announced a major feature in Viva that is likely to disrupt the HR Technology market: skills . And the Skills in Viva system is not just a skills inference engine, it’s a ...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/why-microsoft-viva-skills-could-disrupt-the-hr-tech-market/
This week LinkedIn announced some massive Gen AI features in its two flagship products: LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Learning. Let me give you an overview. LET ME START WITH LINKEDIN LEARNIN...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/linkedin-launches-exciting-gen-ai-features-in-recruiter-and-learning/
Today at the Rising conference Workday introduced a range of new generative AI features , all described as “Workday AI.” This is part of a major trend: enterprise software companies adding Ge...
The LMS market is often considered a red ocean : hundreds of vendors, highly complex user needs, and few vendors making a profit. Over the last decade almost every leading LMS vendor (Saba, Docen...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/09/docebo-surprising-leader-in-learning-management-platforms/
Organization design has become one of the hottest topics in business. More than 80% of the companies we talk with are now experimenting with AI, flattening their organization, and reorganizing t...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/08/introducing-the-organization-design-superclass/
Fueled by new AI tools and skills technology, nearly every company wants to become a “skills-based organization.” Now that we’ve had a few years to study this trend, I’d like to share som...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/07/building-a-skills-based-organization-the-exciting-but-sober-reality/
It was bound to happen: Leadership Development powered by AI. Here’s the latest… As we’ve discovered in our Irresistible Leadership research, mid-level managers are struggling. Not only h...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/07/management-development-powered-by-ai-betterup-connect/
Everywhere I go companies are focused on building a skills-based organization. Originally fueled by the need to hire and build digital skills, today companies are looking for skills in AI, new en...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/05/lightcast-the-switzerland-of-the-global-skillstech-market/
As I’ve mentioned many times, the HR Technology market is too big and too exciting to ignore. Today, in a bold move, ServiceNow introduced a comprehensive new product for employee skills intell...
This week I spent a few days at the ASU/GSV conference and ran into 7,000 educators, entrepreneurs, and corporate training people who had gone CRAZY for AI. No, I’m not kidding. This communi...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/04/edtech-is-going-crazy-for-ai/
LinkedIn Learning has been one of the most fascinating success stories in HR Technology. It all started in 2015 when LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com , a pioneering provider of high-quality video lear...
The $330 billion corporate training market is enormous, fragmented, and complex. For years it was dominated by Learning Management Systems (LMS) and content providers, each pioneered in the early...
https://joshbersin.com/2023/01/a-new-generation-of-mastery-based-learning-platforms-has-arrived/
The banking industry is hot again: interest rates are rising, people are spending money, and consumers want a more integrated, digital-first relationship with their provider. For consumer and com...
This week was the week of Cornerstone’s global user conference , entitled Limitless: Unlocking the Potential of your Workforce. And for the first time, users get to see what the new Cornerstone...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/10/cornerstone-makes-a-play-to-dominate-the-skills-platform-market/
We just released new research on Career Pathways , a bold corporate innovation that creates non-linear career paths for workers with any education. This approach, which has been pioneered by comp...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/10/career-pathways-the-innovation-that-could-transform-the-economy/
Last week Microsoft’s Work Trend Index discovered a profound problem at work: while 87% of employees believe they are highly productive, only 12% of CEOs agree. This is a staggering finding....
https://joshbersin.com/2022/10/productivity-paranoia-a-design-challenge-ahead/
The corporate training industry is over $320 billion in size and growing in importance every day. Companies are struggling with employee retention, transformation, and challenges with hybrid work...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/08/a-new-strategy-for-corporate-learning-growth-in-the-flow-of-work/
If anyone ever tells you it’s easy to build a startup software company, don’t listen to them. That’s the story of Degreed, one of the darlings of the corporate learning industry, now going ...
We just completed two years of research on cloud-based HCM (human capital management) systems and the results are striking. Among the 35+ implementations we studied, the findings are now clear: ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/06/new-research-cloud-based-hcm-can-redefine-employee-experience/
Today was a pretty iconic announcement: after decades of investment, Skillsoft decided to give up on the LMS market and sell SumTotal Systems to Cornerstone for $200 Million . While I don’t...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/06/cornerstone-acquires-sumtotal-for-200-million/
Today was some big news. ServiceNow, the leader in enterprise workflow and employee experience platforms, announced the acquisition of Hitch , a small player in the massive market for skills tech...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/06/servicenow-acquires-hitch-entering-the-skills-and-hcm-market/
The Creator Market has been unleashed, eating everything in its path. TikTok’s revenue jumped to $34 Billion last year and this year (2022) it could be more than twice this number. And TikTok, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/04/how-the-creator-market-is-totally-disrupting-corporate-training/
The corporate coaching market is on fire. Today more than $360 Billion is spent on all forms of corporate training (average company spends around $1,400 per employee per year) and you can add an ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/04/torch-a-fast-growing-new-player-in-coaching-and-development/
This week STRIVR Labs, a company I’ve been following for many years, received $35M of funding from Workday, Accenture, Bank of America, and others. While the total amount is not enormous, the ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/04/virtual-reality-has-now-gone-mainstream-for-corporate-training/
Today Cornerstone made a big announcement: the acquisition of EdCast , one of the leaders and pioneers in Learning Experience Platforms. While this may not be a huge deal financially, it will h...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/03/cornerstone-acquires-edcast-corporate-learning-market-disrupted/
Today we’re introducing one of the most exciting projects I’ve worked on in my career: the Global Workforce Intelligence (GWI) Project . This is a massive initiative we started over the last ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/03/scaling-your-company-the-global-workforce-intelligence-project/
After two years of the pandemic, it’s time to come together again. In a spirit of celebration and joy, I want to announce our new conference Irresistible, The Global Conference for HR Leaders a...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/02/irresistible-the-global-conference-for-hr-leaders-and-their-teams/
One of the most exciting parts of business is corporate learning. This is a $360 billion market and it defines success or underperformance for virtually every company. Every time you hire someone...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/02/demystifying-the-learning-technology-market/
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...
Over the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time helping companies build their end-to-end skills strategy. And it’s not as easy as it looks. In this article, I’d like to share a few of...
As an industry analyst I often write about fast-growing new companies. Well, today I’m going to tell you about one I know a lot about, the Josh Bersin Academy , or JBA as we call it. The JBA ...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/01/the-explosive-growth-of-the-josh-bersin-academy/
Online coaching has become a white-hot market and it’s totally disrupting leadership development. Vendors like BetterUp , Torch , CoachHub , Bravely , SoundingBoard , Pluma (owned by Skillsoft...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/01/online-coaching-is-so-hot-its-now-disrupting-leadership-development/
Why did Microsoft spend $75 Billion to acquire Activision , the makers of Warcraft, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and other best-selling games? It’s not just because they want to be big in the Metav...
https://joshbersin.com/2022/01/the-metaverse-is-here-and-why-gaming-is-the-new-killer-app/
Of all the surprises from the pandemic, one of the biggest is the explosive growth of online coaching. It’s as if the virus hit us hard, disrupted us in unpredictable ways, and we’ve now unle...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/12/the-flourishing-surprising-badly-needed-market-for-online-coaching/
Well, it’s time to talk about predictions for 2022, and the number one theme is change. And in a sense, everything is about to change . If you think back about where we are, it has been 14 ...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/12/predictions-for-2022-everything-is-about-to-change/
The corporate training and skills development market is massive. Today it’s over $360 Billion and growing by almost 8% this year. Why the explosive growth? It’s simple: every individual, empl...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/11/why-udemy-could-be-the-hottest-company-in-corporate-learning/
What Is A Metaverse? Simply put, a Metaverse is a digital space represented by digital representations of people, places, and things. In other words, it’s a “digital world” with real peop...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/11/what-is-the-metaverse-and-how-microsoft-disney-and-amazon-could-win/
If there’s anything that’s been transformed over the last two years, it’s corporate training. Companies are buying new tools, licensing new content, and building skills taxonomies, VR and A...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/11/its-time-to-reinvent-corporate-learning-join-our-new-research/
This week Cornerstone, the largest provider of corporate learning technology (and LMS), launched a new product that is likely to change the market. Cornerstone Xplor , a new skills-based, AI-powe...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/11/cornerstone-xplor-launches-a-new-era-in-corporate-learning/
This week 360Learning, a fast-growing collaborative learning company, received an astounding $200 Million of investment. Only a few years ago this would have been incomprehensible, but now it ma...
From its very founding Workday was designed as an integrated but proprietary system, engineered for the cloud. Workday developed a proprietary database, advanced business process framework , inte...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/10/workday-goes-everywhere-into-the-flow-of-work-and-more/
As we detailed in our research study Elevating Equity , driving diversity is a tough business. Not only do companies need to source, hire, and manage people in an inclusive way, they have to buil...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/10/emtrain-delivers-a-new-approach-to-dei-focused-on-behavior-change/
Today CultureAmp, one of the Unicorns in the employee experience space, acquired Disco , a fast-growing company that developed a culture recognition system in the flow of work. CultureAmp is an...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/10/cultureamp-acquires-disco-and-a-funny-story/
Next week is the big HR Technology Conference and as I prepare my keynote I’ve had to review my last year of research with hundreds of vendors around the world. And rather than “write the boo...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/ten-new-truths-about-the-hr-technology-market/
This weekCornerstoneOnDemand, the largest provider of learning management systems, introduced its “New System of Work” vision . While the details are not yet announced, I know for a fact that...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/cornerstone-announces-plans-for-a-new-system-of-work/
This week I want to promote our growth and success with the Josh Bersin Academy . As we start the Fall, I want you to feel comfortable joining the JBA because so many of your friends are here. ...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/josh-bersin-academy-reaches-50000-enrollments/
In the last few weeks, Amazon, Target , and Wal-Mart all announced more than two billion dollars of investment in employee education benefits for front-line workers. What’s going on here? T...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/ceos-are-leading-a-movement-to-educate-the-workforce/
I know I’ve written a lot about ServiceNow lately, but there’s even more to talk about. The Rome release , just announced, has the potential to further upset the HR Technology product stack, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/servicenow-does-it-again-rome-release-pushes-the-envelope/
One of the most devilish problems in business is building and maintaining your job architecture. While it may sound geeky, it’s very important and it is much harder than you think. Consider t...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/09/fixing-your-job-architecture-now-a-business-critical-process/
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/
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 wha...
This week two prominent HR Tech vendors were acquired by private equity firms. CornerstoneOnDemand, the leading LMS company, announced they will be acquired by a PE firm Clearlake for $5.2 Billio...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/08/cornerstone-goes-private-this-is-all-about-growth/
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 ov...
The Learning Technology market is big. Every company is onboarding, reskilling, and developing its people and companies need dozens of tools to do this well. In fact, the entire learning tech mar...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/07/docebo-the-hottest-learning-tech-company-in-years/
Almost two years ago I started describing what I call a Capability Academy , and the concept has really picked up speed. Well we just published a whole research report on the topic, and in this ...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/07/what-is-a-capability-academy-heres-the-answer/
Many of you have heard me talk about TikTok as a learning platform, and you probably thought I was talking about the entertaining videos. No, it’s much more. TikTok is not just entertainment, i...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/07/a-new-category-emerges-the-creator-platform-for-corporate-learning/
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/
It may sound odd, but the coaching market has caught fire. I’ve talked with coaching providers for more than 20 years and I always considered this a cottage industry. Lots of ex-CEOs and psycho...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/07/ai-enabled-coaching-is-hot-and-theres-lots-more-to-come/
Given all the focus on SkillsTech , how will companies build a Skills System of Record? This has become one of the biggest topics in HR, and EdCast has just introduced Skills DNA, a family of to...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/06/building-a-skills-system-of-record-edcast-releases-skills-studio/
Last year I wrote about The War Of The Skills Clouds , and pointed out that there was a war for “SkillsTech ” heating up. Well, it’s now red hot and Oracle has jumped into the pool. And the...
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 v...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/06/video-learning-at-massive-scale-vodaphone-hilti-and-avon-use-fuse/
Skillsoft, one of the largest training companies in the world, is like a cat with nine lives. And this week it went public , for the second or third time. What? Let me try to explain. In the ...
As every company struggles to better hire and reskill its employees, the number one challenge is data. What skills do we have? What skills do we need? And what skills are in the outside job marke...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/06/burning-glass-acquires-emsi-the-leader-in-skills-and-jobs-data/
This summer is the two-year anniversary of the Josh Bersin Academy and I want to give you an update. Not only have we grown to more than 30,000 members and 400+ corporate clients, we discovered ...
Back in 2015, Rachel Carlson founded a company designed to help working adults without a college degree gain education through employer tuition benefits. It was a noble and important idea, so CEO...
Most people think of LinkedIn as a company that offers job search, recruiting, professional networking, and marketing tools for business. Well, based on today’s announcement, the company is now...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/04/in-a-bold-and-aggressive-move-linkedin-unleashes-its-lxp-and-more/
Degreed, the pioneering learning tech company that leads the Learning Experience Platform market, just received $153 Million in additional funding and is now valued at $1.4 Billion . With a comp...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/04/learning-tech-pioneer-degreed-gets-new-ceo-now-valued-at-1-4-billion/
The Labor Market is changing fast. New jobs are being created at a record rate, remote work has now become standard fare, and the demand for service jobs is explosive. According to EMSI, there ar...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/04/understanding-the-new-disrupted-exciting-labor-market/
Over the last few weeks, everyone has been excited about Microsoft Viva . Microsoft’s intense focus on the need to simplify and improve employee’s work lives has been wildly exciting and both...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/03/not-to-be-outdone-servicenow-ups-the-ante-in-employee-experience/
I don’t often write about M&A transactions unless they’re strategic but this one points out an important topic. In the complex, competitive market for HR and learning solutions (it is the re...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/02/instructure-sells-bridge-lms-for-50m-to-learning-technologies-group/
BetterUp, a company known for its coaching network and AI assessment and development tools, just raised an additional $125 Million and is now valued at $1.73 Billion . This makes the company roug...
https://joshbersin.com/2021/02/whats-going-on-at-betterup-now-valued-at-1-7-billion/
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...
Among all that’s happened this year, one of the most important parts of business has been learning. More than 40% of Americans have changed jobs; reskillling and upskilling continues to be crit...
The $240 billion corporate learning market is one of the most complex and fast-changing worlds in HR. There are dozens of platform providers, hundreds of content companies, and an army of new id...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/10/workday-learning-accelerating-fast/
Skillsoft is one of the most fascinating companies in the marketplace. As the pioneering company in online learning (founded in 1998 , originally focused on soft skills), the founders aggressivel...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/08/skillsoft-reinvented-in-a-bold-and-exciting-way/
One of the more disruptive HR Tech vendors is Degreed. I met with the founders early on (David Blake and later Chris McCarthy) and they had a vision: reinvent the way people develop their careers...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/07/degreed-enters-the-talent-marketplace-war/
The Technology Marketplace is filled with growth, and the Pandemic has just accelerated the pace. As of last year, the tech industry makes up about 12% of US GDP and includes more than 18 millio...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/07/cyber-security-professionals-the-hottest-job-in-tech/
Yesterday I read a fascinating study by Dice , one of the leading tech recruitment firms. Amazingly, despite all the talk about Zoom Fatigue and all the challenges with children, dogs, and family...
Over the last five years companies have been working to improve internal talent mobility. Not only does it save money on recruiting, it enables companies to find internal expertise which is often...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/07/talent-marketplace-platforms-explode-into-view/
The corporate learning industry is over $240 billion in size and is critical to our economic future. All workers need to keep their skills current and the Pandemic has created more need to learn ...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/06/microsoft-gets-serious-about-learning-major-new-announcements/
It has been quite an exciting year. We formally launched the Josh Bersin Academy in May of 2019 , with the intention of being “The Professional Development Academy” for HR professionals aroun...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/06/josh-bersin-academy-reaches-10000-users-the-worlds-home-for-hr/
I want to tell a story about an entrepreneur, and in the process tell you the story of an industry: the industry of online learning. IT ALL STARTED IN 1998 The Netscape Browser was launched i...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/06/profile-of-an-entrepreneur-adam-miller-founder-of-cornerstone/
We have been very busy over the last few months, with more than 200 CHRO interviews, dozens of webcasts, and lots of surveys and study, we’ve tried to get ahead of the Coronavirus response. Wel...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/05/responding-to-covid-19-what-you-need-to-learn/
In November of 2018, LinkedIn acquired Glin t, 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. Gli...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/05/glint-and-linkedin-learning-get-married-what-a-great-couple/
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 b...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/04/corporate-learning-in-the-crisis-microsoft-teams-coming-on-strong/
Today CornerstoneOnDemand announced plans to acquire Saba , cementing the consolidation of the enterprise learning management systems market. Together, the combined company would have total recur...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/02/cornerstone-acquires-saba-a-market-leader-acquires-a-pioneer/
A lot has been going on in the learning tech space. While the LXP market continues to be on fire (it’s over $200 M today and easily doubling on an annual basis), the space is growing up. And v...
We just completed a two-day strategy meeting with Reliance Industries , one of the largest and most profitable companies in India. The company runs the world’s largest oil refinery, operates ...
As I’ve discussed in several articles , the hyper-competitive job market has made internal mobility one of the most important strategies in HR. LinkedIn’s latest study (2020 Global Talent Tre...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/02/the-future-of-work-lessons-in-job-architecture-and-career-management/
2020 will be a year of reinvention. As we enter the thirteenth year since the global economic meltdown, businesses are seeing slowing but continued growth, uncertainty about politics and global ...
Mark your calendar for June 8-10 in sunny Los Angeles on the USC campus as we debut our first professional development conference, JBA Live! Why another HR conference? Well, this will be t...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/01/introducing-josh-bersin-academy-live/
I’ve been writing about the explosion of Skills Ontologies from Workday , Degreed, EdCast, Gloat, Fuel 50, and others. Well today Cornerstone , the largest provider of Learning Management Sys...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/01/the-war-of-the-skills-clouds-skillscloud/
In the Fall of 2018 Workday introduced the Skills Cloud , a new offering designed to help companies create a “skills ontology” that discovers the skills (and skill gaps) in your workforce. Wh...
https://joshbersin.com/2020/01/workday-skills-cloud-a-big-idea-with-much-more-to-come/
The market for corporate training and education (including onboarding, leadership development, and compliance) is well over $240 billion around the world, and as much as 14% of this goes into tec...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/12/the-war-for-corporate-learning-platforms-gets-hotter/
Today Degreed, one of the leading providers of Learning Experience Platforms, announced its acquisition of Adepto, a London-based provider of contract and gig work systems. The company positions ...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/12/degreed-acquires-adepto-the-lxp-showdown-begins/
In software development, there is a concept of the “full-stack engineer, ” someone who knows hardware, operating system, database, applications, user interface, design, and mobile applicatio...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/11/the-full-stack-hr-professional/
One of the hottest topics in business today is upskilling, reskilling, and redefining jobs for the future of work. It’s so rampant that 34% of CEO s now rate it one of their “top three threat...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/10/lets-stop-talking-about-soft-skills-theyre-power-skills/
For years leaders have grown their companies by issuing the demand “go out and hire someone who knows how to do this!” This approach leads HR departments and hiring managers to retain expensi...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/10/build-vs-buy-the-days-of-hiring-scarce-technical-skills-are-over/
This week was Workday Rising, the annual confab of 14,000+ Workday customers, partners, and fans. And as always, it met expectations. Not only did Jerry Seinfeld remind us that “we’ve lost in...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/10/workday-fires-a-cannon-into-the-hr-technology-market/
Corporate training and development has been through quite a journey. Twenty years ago companies built physical universities (GE’s Crotonville, Accenture St. Charles ), hired faculty and colleg...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/10/the-capability-academy-where-corporate-training-is-going/
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 , t...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/09/learning-in-the-flow-of-work-now-available-for-hr/
This week IBM launched a significant study which looks at the real skills business leaders need over the next three years, and the results will surprise you. The research, which included surv...
It’s Fall again and I’m finishing up my biggest-ever report on HR Technology: The HR Tech 2020 Disruptions Study . This comprehensive study is done in partnership with LRP, the producers...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/08/hr-technology-2020-disruption-ahead/
Last week there was a lot of press about the Business Roundtable’s new manifesto , proclaiming that business’s role is to help all of society, not just shareholders. While it reads well, it�...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/08/the-business-roundtable-manifesto-what-should-ceos-do/
I just returned from a trip to India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies . While the actual numbers are being adjusted, India is growing at almost twice the rate of the US, and is lik...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/08/update-on-hr-in-india-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-growing-economies/
The HR technology market is clearly on fire. As I described in the report HR Technology Disruptions 2019 , more than $2 billion of Venture Capital and other equity was invested in the market last...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/07/are-we-really-getting-value-from-all-the-hr-software-we-buy/
The market for leadership development solutions is enormous: more than $14 billion is spent by corporations and there are more than 70,000 books and videos on the topic. When we ask companies abo...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/07/why-leadership-development-feels-broken-and-how-were-fixing-it/
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...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/06/learning-technology-evolves-integrated-platforms-are-arriving/
As I talked about in the article From Talent Management To Talent Experience , the market for corporate talent management software has changed. Companies are no longer happy with end-to-end tal...
In today’s skills-based economy, people want to learn faster than ever. More than $200 billion is now spent on various forms of workplace training and the volume of content is massive. There ar...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/05/the-power-of-collaborative-learning-more-important-than-ever/
The role of Human Resources is more important than ever. This year more than two-thirds of CEOs believe talent is their #1 business problem and a myriad of new issues have emerged. Organizations...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/05/introducing-the-josh-bersin-academy/
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...
The learning experience platform (LXP) market is growing up fast. Only a few years ago startup companies like Pathgather, Degreed , and EdCast pioneered the idea of a platform to make corpora...
Let’s face it, the paradigm of email is broken. Research shows that employees spend over 20% of their time on messages unrelated to their jobs , and in most companies, the email system has beco...
EdCast, one of the leading providers of Learning Experience Platforms, just announced the acquisition of Leapest , a fast-growing provider of learning marketplace content and technology with 1,60...
As an experienced technology and HR analyst, I’m always a little skeptical about new tools. In the case of Virtual Reality (VR), I played around with the cardboard VR from the New York Times , ...
We all know how automation, AI, and digital tools have changed our jobs. We spend more than a quarter of our time on e-mail , we have to juggle dozens of passwords, and we spend more than four ho...
https://joshbersin.com/2019/01/want-to-make-more-money-join-the-hybrid-jobs-revolution/
There’s a lot going on in the corporate learning market this year. Micro-learning, learning in the flow of work , virtual reality, and much more. And to add fuel to the fire, HR and business le...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/12/corporate-learning-in-2019-three-things-to-do/
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...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/11/learning-in-the-flow-of-work-arriving-now/
I’ve been studying HR and L&D for almost 20 years now, and I constantly get the question “how do you compute the ROI of learning?” I get tired of answering this question, so I often turn ...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/11/corporate-learning-does-drive-happiness-productivity-too/
Here is a brand new video of my presentation on the topic, delivered at LinkedIn Talent Connect this Fall.... Read more» The post Learning In The Flow Of Work: What It’s All About appeared...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/11/learning-in-the-flow-of-work-what-its-all-about/
Several years ago, as I saw the rapid growth of platforms like Degreed, EdCast, and Pathgather , I coined the phrase “Learning Experience Platforms,” and the name really stuck. Today this pro...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/09/the-learning-experience-platform-lxp-market-expands/
This week LinkedIn released a fascinating study that shows how many of us tend to “sleepwalk” through our careers. As the research shows, almost one in four Americans are drifting along in t...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/08/career-sleepwalking-can-be-bad-for-your-health-what-should-you-do/
India is an amazing country. I just spent a week there meeting with clients and talking at the PeopleMatters HR Tech 18 conference and came home excited and invigorated. In this article let me...
Since the acquisition of Lynda.com in 2015, LinkedIn has become a tidal wave in corporate learning. It feels like they’re going everywhere, and you don’t want to get in the way. If you go b...
This week I have the opportunity to speak at the PeopleMatters TechHR 2018 Conference in Delhi, and I’m going to introduce a topic I’ll be speaking about at other conferences this fall: an...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/07/an-entirely-new-world-of-hr-technology-hr-in-the-flow-of-work/
As I’ve described in several articles over the last few weeks, the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) market is growing rapidly . This market is now over $200M in size , growing at over 100% ...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/07/edcast-expands-the-lxp-market-with-focus-on-global-upskilling/
It isn’t every day that an industry analyst gets to go behind the scenes of an iconic and controversial company, but this week I had that chance. Invited by the HR and corporate learning team, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/06/my-day-at-telsa-what-i-learned/
Today Degreed , one of the pioneering vendors of Learning Experience Platforms (LXP), announced plans to acquire Pathgather , another innovator in this space. This acquisition gives Degreed clea...
CornerstoneOnDemand is one of the most successful cloud vendors in the market for integrated talent and learning management software. The company was founded in 1999 and over the last 20 years h...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/06/cornerstoneondemand-momentum-is-rising/
The corporate training market is over $200 billion around the world and it’s going through a revolution. While we often think of training as programs or courses, a new paradigm has arrived, on...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/06/a-new-paradigm-for-corporate-training-learning-in-the-flow-of-work/
After a year of research and another enormous survey of business and HR leaders around the world, we just released the Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2018 , entitled “The Rise of the Social Ent...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/04/the-rise-of-the-social-enterprise-a-new-paradigm-for-business/
The new world of work can be complex, difficult, and unproductive. In this video I discuss HR’s Essential Role in the New World of Work, presented at the HRD Summit in the UK in early 2018. ...
https://joshbersin.com/2018/02/hrs-essential-role-in-the-new-world-of-work/
I’ve been an analyst following the HR Tech market for almost 20 years now, and this year things are changing faster than ever. In the report we just published, “HR Technology Disruptions for ...
https://joshbersin.com/2017/11/hr-technology-in-2018-ten-disruptions-ahead/
Over the last several years the corporate learning marketplace has been under stress. Video-based learning programs, free courses, MOOCs, and hundreds of high fidelity technical and professional ...
https://joshbersin.com/2017/06/a-new-world-of-corporate-learning-arrives-and-it-looks-like-tv/
Harvard Business Review research shows that 70-90% of corporate acquisitions fail , often driven by an unclear strategy, lack of culture alignment, or poor execution on business integration. Wh...
https://joshbersin.com/2017/05/successfactors-by-sap-healthy-growth-and-continuing-innovation/
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 ma...
https://joshbersin.com/2017/03/the-disruption-of-digital-learning-ten-things-we-have-learned/
Why we must be so careful about where we spend our time… > “As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach > the end of our days, our life experience wil...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/11/why-we-must-be-so-careful-about-where-we-spend-our-time/
This keynote highlights “The Future of Work” and explains why this is a topic about people and organizations, not machines. Would love your comments.... Read more» The post Future of Wo...
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 th...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/09/workday-launches-learning-brings-video-to-the-enterprise/
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/
> “You can’t manufacture time.” I recently had a half day meeting with several of the leading HR leaders in Silicon Valley and after many hours of discussion about the future of work, ...
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 co...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/04/different-by-design-the-fabric-of-the-new-organization/
For many years I’ve been travelling around the world giving speeches and discussions on the future of corporate learning. One of the points I point out is the fact that today learning is part o...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/04/the-learning-curve-is-the-earning-curve/
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 co...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/04/reinventing-the-career-what-should-organizations-do/
We just launched one of the world’s largest studies of people challenges in business, Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016 , and the results were striking. Among the 7,000+ companies who responde...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/03/the-new-organization-different-by-design/
2016 will bring dramatic changes in the world of Human Resources, Learning, Talent Management, and HR technology. Our latest report, Bersin by Deloitte Predictions for 2016 , discusses ten predi...
https://joshbersin.com/2016/01/the-bold-new-world-of-talent-predictions-for-2016/
The folks at Class Central just released their data on the growth of online courses (MOOCs) in 2015 and the data is amazing. More than 35 MILLION PEOPLE enrolled in online courses this year, dou...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/12/the-use-of-moocs-and-online-education-is-exploding-heres-why/
Over the last few years a lot has been written about making jobs “purposeful.” Reid Hoffman just posted an article about the importance of purpose, and described how LinkedIn creates purpo...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/11/purpose-at-work-it-comes-from-within/
It’s HR Technology season, and once again vendors are introducing amazing and disruptive new technologies in all areas of HR. I developed our “Ten Big Disruptions ” report again this year...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/10/hr-technology-for-2016-ten-disruptions-on-the-horizon/
A shoe just dropped in the talent management marketplace. Workday introduced Workday Learning, the company’s new solution for learning management (LMS), career development, video content shar...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/10/workday-introduces-learning-a-fresh-approach-to-the-lms-market/
For more than 35 years Oracle has been a player in the software market. Founded in 1977 as a database and technology company, Oracle is now one of the largest players in all areas of business ...
In our research during the Human Capital trends 2015 project, we found that while more than 2/3 of the companies we talked with are dealing with “the overwhelmed employee,” a similar number ...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/06/the-simplification-of-work-what-is-hrs-role/
In early May I attended the CornerstoneOnDemand (CSOD) customer conference and this year the company introduced several important new offerings. As an introduction, CornerstoneOnDemand is o...
We just finished our 8th annual IMPACT research conference in Florida, and our theme was Bold HR – pushing the envelope on talent and HR practices, reinventing what we do, and starting with a...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/05/the-four-keys-to-bold-hr-lessons-for-the-year-ahead/
Last month Saba, a pioneer in the market for enterprise learning and talent management systems , held its annual customer conference (more than 700 learning and HR professionals attended). I...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/04/update-on-saba-turnaround-in-the-making/
We just published the major study Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2015 , and the results are striking. Today, driven by shifts in both work ethos and the transparency of the job market, em...
I had a meeting with a client last week and we were talking about their learning strategy, content infrastructure, and the need to build an overall end-to-end culture of development. During the c...
https://joshbersin.com/2015/03/emergence-of-the-self-developing-organization/
This year our Predictions for 2015 has some hard-hitting new ideas to consider – in this article I will give you some highlights, and you can download the report here . TOP LINE: ENORMOUS CH...
The HR technology landscape, which is now more than a $15 billion market in software, is exploding with growth and innovation. We are tracking more than 100 new startups in social and referral...
https://joshbersin.com/2014/11/the-top-10-disruptions-in-hr-technology-ignore-them-at-your-peril/
This week I attended three client conferences – SuccessFactors Successconnect , the Achievers Customer Experience , and the Glassdoor Employment Brand Summit . All three of these companies are ...
https://joshbersin.com/2014/09/update-on-successfactors-achievers-and-glassdoor/
We just released our newest research on the corporate Learning Management Systems market and the numbers are astounding. The market is well over $2.5 billion and grew by over 21% this year. T...
https://joshbersin.com/2014/08/the-red-hot-market-for-learning-management-systems/
These predictions were recorded in the summer of 2014 and discuss our top 10 predictions for HR, talent, and learning in the coming year. For more details please download our 2014 Predictions R...
https://joshbersin.com/2014/08/video-predictions-for-hr-in-the-coming-year-1-5/
I probably read more than one hundred human resources, leadership, and business books a year (e-readers are amazing) and I rarely have time to review them. Most are great books in many ways. (I�...
https://joshbersin.com/2014/08/the-alliance-a-manifesto-for-21st-century-talent-management/
In 2014 the world of Talent, Leadership and HR will undergo dramatic change. (Download our 66 page Predictions Report here .) The economy will accelerate its growth. Global growth will cr...
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 diffi...
https://joshbersin.com/2013/03/the-ever-changing-state-of-the-learning-technology-industry/
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/
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 w...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/07/social-tools-collide-with-talent-management-software/
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...
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 signifi...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/05/adp-rocks-the-talent-management-market-with-new-integrated-solution/
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/
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 ...
IMPACT 2012 is only ten days away. If you want to get excited, take a look at these five videos of some of our upcoming presenters. Only a few seats left, sign up now ! David Kuhl Senior Vic...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/03/video-of-speakers-at-impact-2012-only-ten-days-away/
We are all getting excited about our upcoming research conference IMPACT 2012: The Business of Talent® . There are seats left, but the conference will likely sell out (as it has in prior y...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/03/why-you-should-come-to-impact-on-april-10-13/
The talent management systems market has been under quite a bit of stress lately. In the last 90 days we have seen SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors , followed by Oracle’s acquisition of...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/02/the-integration-of-talent-management-systems-comes-to-forefront/
Back in 2006 we had a dream of building a new type of industry recognition program that would use the rigor of our research to recognize leading L&D, HR, and talent management programs around th...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/02/lessons-from-the-best-2012-bersin-associates-learning-leaders/
This week Kenexa , one of the largest and most successful HR and talent acquisition consulting companies, announced the acquisition of Outstart, a pioneering company in the market for e-learning...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/02/kenexa-acquires-outstart-gets-serious-about-the-learning-market/
The LMS market remains very hot, and so does Facebook (below). Comments on both. This week Peoplefluen t (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria an...
The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last few years I’ve been speaking with many corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/01/the-end-of-a-job-as-we-know-it/
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...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/01/getting-bullish-on-sap-in-the-hr-marketplace/
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 YO...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/01/dream-job-for-world-class-instructional-designer-available/
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® ). �...
https://joshbersin.com/2012/01/yikes-training-spending-is-up-9-5-highest-in-3-years-a-renaissance/
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 hu...
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, shar...
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...
The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the ...
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/
Over the last ten years or so the talent management software providers have had a party building up a $3 billion, fast-growing marketplace. Now, starting in 2011 and 2012, the elephants from the...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/10/elephants-of-hr-software-enter-the-talent-management-market/
Here it is the even of the HR Technology Conference – and we eagerly await dozens of news releases, product introductions, tweets, and announcements of exciting new technologies in the areas o...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/10/preview-of-hr-technology-conference-2011/
... Read more» The post Mobile Computing soon to Dominate HR Software Investments appeared first on JOSH BERSIN .
https://joshbersin.com/2011/09/mobile-computing-soon-to-dominate-hr-software-investments/
SuccessFactors just announced another stellar quarter (48% YTY growth in revenues, 42% YTY growth in billings), and the CEO Lars Dalgaard talked extensively about the company’s progress with ...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/08/successfactors-q2-2011-earnings-plateau-moves-to-saas-focus/
Once again it’s time to start making plans to come to Las Vegas (not Chicago this year, thank god) to the annual HR Technology Conference . This conference (October 3-5, 2011) is by far the big...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/07/the-amazing-hr-technology-conference-come-join-us/
Over the last ten years Blackboard has been one of the most successful learning technology companies in the market. Its platform is now the dominant system for secondary and university education ...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/07/blackboard-to-go-private-giving-the-company-freedom-to-invest/
As the global economy slowly recovers, more and more employers tell us they are seeing an increasingly difficult talent environment ahead. As I discussed in my keynote at IMPACT (video available ...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/06/employment-paradox-unemployment-skills-gaps-difficulty-in-hiring/
We have been conducting a series of workshops around the country on best-practices in corporate social learning, and the results have been really overwhelming. As I’ve discussed with many of y...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/06/from-e-learning-to-we-learning-lessons-learned/
I”m very excited to announce that starting in a few weeks our analysts will be going on a roadshow around the country to present our latest research and best-practices on social and informal le...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/05/from-e-learning-to-we-learning-national-workshop-series-join-us/
We just finished a thrilling week in Florida at IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent® , our annual research conference. I sincerely hope that the 450 of you who joined us had as much fun as I di...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/04/impact-2011-wrapup-watch-the-keynotes/
Today SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Plateau, enabling the company to enter the learning management systems market with a bang. At the same time the company announced Q1 revenue gr...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/04/successfactors-acquires-plateau-accelerating-a-global-powerhouse/
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/
How do you build a high-impact learning organization? As many of you know, it’s not as easy as it looks. Back in 2008 we essentially wrote the book on this topic when we launched our exten...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/04/how-to-build-a-high-impact-learning-organization-2011-edition/
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 Saba Software released one of its strongest financial results in many years. Saba, which pioneered the market for enterprise learning management systems, has now turned the corner in i...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/03/saba-earnings-show-growth-and-momentum-now-truly-a-saas-company/
Remember the dot.com bubble of 1995-2000? I do, and it’s back again. But this time it has a new face, it talks about SaaS, highly connected social applications, mobile apps, and talent manageme...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/03/new-internet-bubble-hits-talent-management-market/
This week SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Jambok, a small platform company with an innovative and powerful solution for social learning and knowledge sharing. Jambok was the brain...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/03/successfactors-acquires-jambok-is-this-corporate-learning-3-0/
The ever-changing market for Learning Management Systems (LMS) continues to evolve. Last year, Taleo , the largest provider of recruiting software, spent $100 million acquiring mid-market LMS v...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/03/taleo-establishes-itself-in-the-learning-management-systems-market/
This year is our fourth annual Learning and Talent Management Research Conference, IMPACT: The Business of Talent® (April 26-29 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Florida) and...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/03/building-the-borderless-workplace-impact-2011-research-conference/
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/
One of the hottest issues in human resources is the need to develop high levels of employee engagement and satisfaction. We all know that organizations with happy people have lower turnover, d...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/01/how-employee-engagement-really-drives-stock-price/
Today another major shift takes place in the talent management systems market: SumTotal Systems announced the acquisition of GeoLearning . BACKGROUND: SumTotal Systems is the largest pro...
https://joshbersin.com/2011/01/sumtotal-acquires-geolearning-lms-market-consolidation-continues/
I spent this week in Europe (nice Siberian snowstorm here), attending a client meeting in the UK and the Online Educa Berlin (OEB), the largest e-learning conference in the world. This confere...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/12/high-impact-learning-culture-in-europe/
One of the privileges I have in my role is the opportunity to meet some of the great world leaders in corporate learning and development. In the interest of helping our industry understand th...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/11/todays-chief-learning-officer-tamar-elkeles-a-clo-of-the-decade/
Today we begin the introduction of a major new source of research, information, and support for HR and L&D professionals, the Bersin & Associates Lexicon® . The Lexicon is a new, online re...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/10/introducing-the-bersin-associates-lexicon/
Today SumTotal Systems , the largest provider of learning management systems, announced the acquisition of Softscape , the pioneering software vendor that started the market for integrated talent...
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/
Despite the uptick in business optimism from our mid-year TalentWatch ® report, the US economy continues to be slow. This month we learned that there are 14.5 million Americans looking for work ...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/08/businesss-role-in-educating-our-workforce/
Over the last several months I have been in many meetings with HR and L&D professionals talking about the enormous power of formalized informal learning. As we walk through out enterprise lea...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/07/how-people-learn-it-really-hasnt-changed/
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 b...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/06/how-to-build-a-high-impact-learning-culture/
This week we published our TalentTrends ® research for the first half of 2010 (report available to research members ). In this research we ask more than 200 top HR and business leaders to tell u...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/05/the-recovery-drives-bold-new-priorities-for-hr/
Today the corporate training industry is evolving from ten years of focus on e-learning and blended learning towards a serious and transformational focus on “we-learning .” We named this t...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/04/from-e-learning-to-we-learning-skillsoft-ingenius/
On April 6-8, 2010, in St. Petersburg Florida, we will be hosting our third-annual Research Conference on Enterprise Learning and Talent Management: IMPACT 2010 . The lineup for this year’s...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/02/why-you-should-come-to-impact-2010-the-business-of-talent/
Today Skillsoft announced that the company is being acquired by a private equity firm for approximately $1.1 billion. This acquisition price reflects a 14% premium over the public share price ...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/02/skillsoft-goes-private-e-learning-market-has-matured/
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...
This week I had the opportunity to keynote the largest learning conference in the UK, the UK Learning Technologies Conference (developed and run by Donald H. Taylor , one of the most knowledgeab...
https://joshbersin.com/2010/01/learning-and-talent-management-in-europe/
It’s here, our Corporate Learning and Talent Management Predictions for 2010 . Each year for the last six years we have published an in-depth report on our predictions for the coming year. ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/12/predictions-for-corporate-learning-and-talent-management-in-2010/
In the last 60 days I’ve had the opportunity to attend five major industry events which cover corporate learning: user group meetings at Plateau, Saba, SumTotal and Taleo and the HR Technology ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/10/the-lms-market-hotter-than-ever/
The corporate training industry is undergoing some major changes. Over last few months we have been involved in many discussions with organizations about the tremendous needs to build, manage, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/09/from-e-learning-to-we-learning/
The term SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a hot topic among HR and L&D software providers. In fact, many of the HR software buyers use stories about their “SaaS-iness” as their major...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/08/how-saas-y-is-your-hr-software-vendor-what-does-saas-mean-to-you/
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Why Values and Philosophy Matter: How An Auto Club Competes with Google appeared first on JOSH BERSIN .
https://joshbersin.com/2009/08/why-values-and-philosophy-matter-how-aaa-competes-with-google/
Even in this year’s terrible economy, the Talent Management Software market continues to show signs of life. We estimate this important market will reach around $2.4 Billion by the end of 2009...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/08/talent-management-software-market-shows-signs-of-life/
How has the Human Resources and Training and Development profession changed in the last few years? What are the real motivations and career paths for people in our profession? How do people m...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/06/your-hr-and-ld-career-in-2009-the-career-factbook/
This week we met with the head of L&D from a large financial services institution. This company, like many others, has just completed a wrenching reorganization and redesign of its global learnin...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/06/you-cut-costs-now-build-a-long-term-roadmap/
As we read and hear about the tumultuous news in Iran and North Korea, it occurs to me that so much of our daily life, news, and time is now spent on global issues. This trend impacts the corpo...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/06/globalization-now-core-to-enterprise-learning/
Over the last year or so we have talked with hundreds of companies about their desire to transform their corporate training programs to take advantage of social networking, knowledge management, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/05/modern-corporate-training-the-enterprise-learning-framework/
The LMS market continues to heat up as two private equity firms bid for SumTotal Systems . This week Vista Equity Partners upped its bid to $4.75 a share (up from $3.80 several weeks ago), bri...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/05/sumtotal-bidding-war-continues-hr-software-gets-hotter/
A very 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 BUSINES...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/05/ibm-adopts-saba-as-its-learning-technology-partner/
We have been carefully looking at the Talent Management Software market over the last few weeks, and the first quarter of 2009 was a bit of a disaster. The market for performance and successio...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/05/the-talent-management-software-slump/
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/
There is now a little bidding war going on for SumTotal Systems . ACCEL-KKR , a private equity firm, outbid Vista Equity Partners by offering approximately $124 Million for the company. Th...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/04/the-bidding-war-for-sumtotal-systems/
We just completed our IMPACT® 2009 Research Conference in Florida, which brought together over 300 top HR and L&D leaders from around the world. One of the things I talked about in my keynot...
Today, at our IMPACT 2009 Research Conference, we released our 2009 Learning Management Systems research which details the pivotal changes taking place in the market for corporate learning platfo...
Today was a very important day in the world of corporate learning and talent management systems. Vista Equity Partners, a mid-sized private equity firm, announced a proposal to acquire SumT...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/04/sumtotal-to-be-acquired-by-private-equity-firm/
As I prepare my keynote for our upcoming research conference, IMPACT 2009: The Business of Talent® , I came to the realization that one of the most important issues in management today is t...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/03/is-your-organization-architected-for-change/
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...
In the last 6 weeks three of my closest friends have been laid off from their positions, and each case gives an example of how difficult it is to manage such programs effectively. Our research ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/03/four-case-studies-in-layoffs-what-to-watch-out-for/
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/
In today’s new green (and red ink) economy, businesses all over the world are working hard to reduce operational expenses, restructure their workforce, and transform themselves into sustainable...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/02/people-not-just-megawatts-the-vestas-story/
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...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/02/deep-vs-wide-the-new-career-strategy/
It’s now official. After surveying our entire research membership and having more than 30 conversations with leading HR and learning leaders (including with Xerox, Accenture, British Telecom, ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/01/informal-learning-becomes-formal/
The Training Measurement Book is on Amazon’s Top 10 Business Books for 2008 This week we published the Corporate Learning Factbook® for 2008 and sure enough, corporate learning and deve...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/01/yes-virginia-you-can-cut-training-costs/
This week Barack Obama appointed a Chief Performance Officer for the Federal Government, focused on assessing the performance of government programs and finding opportunities to reduce waste and ...
https://joshbersin.com/2009/01/the-chief-performance-officer-why-it-matters-to-you/
Witness the number of companies undergoing a wrenching transformation (read “potential death”) in today’s economy: the US Auto industry (GM, Ford, Chrysler) , the US Newspaper industry (LA ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/12/life-or-death-building-a-corporate-learning-culture/
You can’t pick up a newspaper these days without reading about more business downturns, layoffs, and lowered expectations for retail sales, automobiles, consumer products, housing, and financia...
As the US economy lost 240,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rises to 6.5%, one of the questions I know many people ask is the direction of the “talent management” marketplace. ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/11/where-is-the-talent-management-market-going/
In the last year many of our research members and clients have come to us for help in restructuring their HR or Learning & Development organizations. There have been three major forces at play ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/10/restructuring-hr-where-are-we-going/
One of the important things senior business and HR leaders must consider is the availability of labor – that is not just “people” but “the right people.” Right now, with a 6.1% unempl...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/10/corporate-talent-where-the-us-labor-market-is-going/
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...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/10/enterprise-social-software-a-new-category/
Our soon to be published research on corporate L&D spending in 2008 shows a definite slowdown in spending on corporate training. (An 11% drop!) This is certainly not a surprise – in August ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/09/how-to-reduce-cost-in-corporate-learning-development/
This week we introduced an important new set of research and recognition, the HILO 80® – the top 80 organizations we benchmarked in high-impact corporate learning through our High Impact Lear...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/08/the-hilo-80-leaders-in-corporate-learning/
We have been doing a lot of research and work with the Federal Government in the area of talent management. Let me share a few interesting findings. The United States Federal government has m...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/08/talent-management-challenges-in-the-federal-government/
One of the important lessons we have learned from our High Impact Learning Organization ® research is the simple but profound fact that learning is part of a corporate business strategy. Wh...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/07/make-learning-part-of-your-business-strategy/
Whew. Earlier this year we embarked on a major research effort to understand the growing role of social networking in enterprise learning and talent management. The results are amazing. L...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/07/social-networking-in-talent-management-where-are-we/
In the last few months we have read more and more about the global economic slowdown. Jim Cramer, the Wall Street pundit, wrote in today’s New York Magazine, that he has never seen things as ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/06/talent-management-in-a-slowdown-update/
Talent management challenges vary from country to country. We recently completed a series of discussions with Pemex and Banamex in Mexico, as well as several companies in China and Europe. Wh...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/06/globalized-talent-management-pemex-and-banamex/
This month we are launching The High Impact Learning Organization ®, a research study which has been more than three years in development. During this time we have interviewed hundreds of corp...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/06/new-disciplines-of-the-modern-training-organization/
We recently completed our annual research conference and I had a wonderful opportuinty to meet and talk with 15 different HR and L&D executives in a special roundtable. The theme of our re...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/05/on-the-minds-of-hr-and-learning-leaders/
I recently spent a few days in Mexico City meeting with HR and L&D leaders from some of the largest companies in Mexico (Banamex, Pemex, Groupo Modelo, and others). The meetings reinforced a ve...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/05/corporate-universities-theyre-baaaaaaack/
As we continue to study best practices in the implementation of corporate learning and talent management, we find that high performing organizations fall into two categories: those who endure ...
As we prepare for our annual research conference IMPACT 2008: The Business of Talent® , I want to mention an important topic which has come up frequently in the last few weeks: the critical ...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/04/managing-innovation-google-and-the-learning-culture/
This week we talked with five top Chief Learning Officers representing training leadership at EMC, Extra Space Storage, MetLife, Textron, and Trinity Health. This group of learning leaders will b...
This week I had a call with five financial services clients to understand the impact of the economic slowdown on their learning, talent, and systems investments. How are HR, talent strategies,...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/04/talent-management-in-financial-services-impact-of-the-slowdown/
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/
As we read more and more about talent management suites and the rapid growth in the market for integrated HR software, what has happened to the market for learning management systems? I’d lik...
On February 26, 2008 Starbucks embarked on an interesting experiment in enterprise learning: the company shut down all its US stores for several hours to train 135,000 employees in a single sh...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/02/starbucks-nationwide-training-day-did-it-work/
We are clearly entering some form of economic slowdown. Our most recent index of talent management executives (January of 2008) showed some significant changes from May of 2007: 21% greater...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/02/five-talent-management-strategies-for-a-business-downturn/
I recently had a conversation with the CLO of one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, who told me that “The CLO Role as we know it is dead.” I have to somewhat agree. Over t...
We recently completed a major research program which studies the elements of corporate learning which deliver the highest levels of business impact. Our findings were fascinating, providing valua...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/01/the-role-of-a-learning-culture-in-2008/
In our recent study, High-Impact Leadership Development: Trends, Best Practices, and Industry Solutions , we identified the best practices and the top providers in leadership development. Our stu...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/01/leadership-development-the-six-best-practices/
For many years the corporate learning market has struggled with the issue of content management. Training programs create many forms of content: powerpoint slides, checklists, job aids, video...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/01/learning-content-management-a-real-solution-for-2008/
As we look ahead to 2008, many pundits are trying to predict the direction of the US and world economy. Today we see that the US unemployment rate ticked up to 5% and the job creation rate (18,...
https://joshbersin.com/2008/01/disappointing-job-creation-data-what-does-it-mean-to-hr/
We recently conducted focus groups with our research members and one of the topics which comes up frequently is the question: how can we better align with our business leaders? Let me dis...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/12/aligning-hr-with-the-business-what-to-do/
An interesting trend is occurring in 2008. Over the last 7-8 years organizations have been working very hard to create a “federated” model for training, which centralizes certain core funct...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/12/is-it-time-to-re-centralize-ld/
This week I was on a panel at the Oracle Users Group discussing the needs of the multi-generational workforce. Most of the attendees (HR and training managers) were focused on identifying what...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/11/social-networking-meets-corporate-america/
I recently completed a meeting with 200 of the top HR executives at MetLife, one of the most successful and sustainable global insurance companies. MetLife’s Vice-President of People, Deb Cap...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/11/metlifes-multi-generational-workforce/
I recently had a conversation with Tamara Elkeles, the Chief Learning Officer for Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a highly successful technology company which focuses on many technologies embedded in the...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/10/story-telling-as-corporate-learning/
Much has been written in the last few years about “informal learning” and the need for a culture of learning in organizations. We know from our research that today’s tight labor market an...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/10/a-new-organizational-learning-model-learning-on-demand/
THE QUANDRY OF SELECTING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS After many years as an analyst in this market, learning management systems continue to amaze me. They are like chameleons – continuous...
THE ORIGINS OF RAPID E-LEARNING Some years ago (2003) we were doing some consulting with a major tools provider and first coined the term “rapid e-learning.” Yes, it was us. In fact, I ...
We have always regarded the term “learning outsourcing” as a misnomer. The very nature of a training function requires that many of the topics, programs, and solutions are outsourced – af...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/07/learning-outsourcing-marches-ahead-new-economics/
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/
THE TOP 22 BUSINESS PROCESSES WHICH DRIVE BUSINESS IMPACT In 2007 we conducted one of the largest-ever studies of corporate talent management: we interviewed and surveyed more than 750 corp...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/07/high-impact-talent-management-the-top-22/
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/
One of the ongoing debates in learning and development organizations is the need for a CLO. In June I hosted a panel of three very effective CLOs at the ASTD conference in Atlanta and also ...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/07/the-need-for-a-chief-learning-officer/
THE TREND TOWARD OFFSHORING There seems to be a stampede of U.S. companies rushing to outsource their operations to offshore companies, dramatically expanding the economies of India and China.�...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/06/offshoring-content-development/
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 ...
We estimate that sales channel training alone makes up more than $6 Billion in products and services. All product companies, from software companies to medical device manufacturers to beverage...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/06/channel-sales-training-best-practices/
As organizations evolve their training organizations to further improve business impact, better leverage technology, and become more service-oriented, we find them looking more and more to benchm...
https://joshbersin.com/2007/06/learning-organization-benchmarking/
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/2007/06/managing-compliance-training/
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/
In the last 12 months we have seen many mergers in the learning market take place: Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, SumTotal’s acquisition of Pathlore, Saba’s acquisition of Thinq, and...