While traditional, compliance-driven learning won’t be leaving the building anytime soon, next-generation learning functionality — focused on casual, continuous, bite-size, and user-contributed content — is taking center stage with many buyers.
In fact, 94% of learning buyers in our recent research believe that the working style of employees is different today and that new approaches and technologies are needed.
This week, we'll be covering our newest research on the learning management buyer. You can download the full report for free here.
Learning technology has historically been built to fit within the training silo, but now we see learning technology taking center stage in the talent management universe. Learning professionals are becoming development-focused talent warriors, battling diversified challenges related to retaining and developing people within their organizations. They’re not stuck in the silo. They’re moving on. Is your technology ready to step up to meet them in their new roles?
In a recent, joint research report from The Starr Conspiracy Intelligence Unit (TSCIU), Brandon Hall Group, and Human Capital Institute (HCI) titled “The Enterprise Learning Buyer, 2014: What technology vendors need to know about a rapidly shifting market,” we discovered that, in addition to learning management, 86 percent or more learning buyers played an influential role in key areas of performance and talent management, employee engagement, succession and development, and employee survey software and services. What does that mean? It means that if you’re still considering learning professionals to be the gatekeepers of training alone, your technology isn’t providing the solutions your buyer really needs.
This week, we'll be covering our newest research on the learning management buyer. You can download the full report for free here.
During the rise of talent management technology over the past 20 years, learning has taken a back seat to performance management. Of course, the shortcomings of performance management are well documented, and the death of the performance appraisal has been predicted enthusiastically for the past decade.
