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The Cornerstone Acquisition

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I bring this up, because after it was announced that Cornerstone will be acquiring SumTotal, the pundits went out and espoused some very interesting ideas. The idea that companies no longer wanted their LMS to be “an employee-facing system” I respectfully disagree. I never put innovation and SumTotal in the same sentence.

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History of the LMS

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CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. Could someone create a course at said company? You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered.

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3rd Trend – Performance

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Take the 90’s or perhaps yesterday for some companies (many). Development), which most folks in L&D have anyway, OR if you are T&D (Talent Development, which most vendors are not using as a term, even though it exists) OR HR if you are doing some Performance, then performance management is part of your domain. Too afraid?

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The Augmented LMS: New Life for Talent Management Learning?

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Old-school LMS companies (like SumTotal , Plateau , Learn.com , GeoLearning and Certpoint ) were acquired by much larger talent and HR-suite providers like SAP/SuccessFactors , Infor , Oracle and IBM. With that kind of captive customer, why would a talent management LMS vendor even bother to improve its product? Conclusion.

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Expect 2 C in Learning Systems 2021

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Many companies will allow their white-collar workforce to remain at home, even after they “open” to having employees (white-collar) return. I provide this list because it leads to the obvious you would think every vendor is doing as we speak, err write, err read, but are not. Consumer spending is down everywhere.

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Courseware LMSs – Good or bad for the industry?

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Maybe you scored it via Wiley, but in many possibilities you purchased the content thru your LMS vendor. It’s much easier than say going directly to the content provider, buying it from them and then having them talk to your LMS vendor to put it in for you (which, honestly you should do, because it will save you money).

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E-Learning Jargon: What you might think it is.well…

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The spin is that you can accrue points by reading an article, taking a course, leaving comments, ranking content, completing an assessment and so on – varies among vendors. LMS – Learning Management System, Learning System (which for some companies tries to spin it as something new and magical and not like the LMS).