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 the market; second, the impact on Taleo and Learn. Read the Full Article

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 and 1. Read the Full Article

Our mission as a research and advisory services company is to help organizations "dramatically improve their business performance through their talent, learning, and HR strategies, processes, and systems. "  In this never-ending quest, we continuously find that one of the most challenging (and important) parts of building a modern, high-performing company is the implementation of well architected, easy-to-use, HR and learning systems. And for me personally, this is just something I love. Read the Full Article

The talent management systems market continues to grow and consolidate at the same time.   With a busy summer and lots of time spent on Learning Culture and other topics, I have not had time to talk about the talent management software space.  Here are some important updates (much more to come in the next few months): ADP announced its acquisition of Workscape. Read the Full Article

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 learning framework and talk with people about the need to expand their concept of training, I am reminded of the work we did back in 2003 and 2004 when I wrote The Blended Learning Book® (which is just as important to understand today as ever before). Here are a few of the jewels I want to remind everyone to consider. Read the Full Article