SAP claims they now design apps for mobile first. Quite a few companies have Taleo/Oracle or SAP and they are looking to the vendors to make clear product roadmaps available. As many of you know SAP has two LMSs and Oracle has four, so it's important for these vendors to really clarify their strategy to the market, because when companies are confused they talk with another vendor. The big cloud HRMS vendors (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Ultimate, Salesforce.com, and ADP) were all on stage and everyone seems to have gotten religion about cloud computing in HR. "). MORE >>

This week SuccessFactors and SAP announced their integration plans. Simply stated, the combined companies plan to move all their strategic talent management investments from SAP HCM and Business ByDesign into SuccessFactors, and build Employee Central (SuccessFactors' central directory product) into its core cloud-based HRMS offering. SAP HCM is a highly integrated set of talent management systems which have been in development for 25+ years. The SAP HRMS and payroll solution has been designed to meet the needs of 50+ countries with many industry-specific modules. MORE >>

Then comes something called GoLive, and heads and hearts that were “certified as ready”, struggle with crippled recall knowledge; some users settling for feelings of success when they can remember enough to sign-on to SAP or the EMR the first time. Deployment gets you to the end-of-training celebration party and the three-bite shrimp, the balloons, the creepy clowns, and the face painting. Now our learners are in their downstream, post-training environment called the work context. Now they are outside of the scope and charter of most training organizations. Now they are most dangerous. MORE >>

Fear saps passion. The passion-sapping fear I feel is just a tool from the Resistance toolbox, a trick of the mind meant to dissaude me from pursuing those things that are most important for me to go after. . But then Resistance sets in and saps the passion that would helps us move through to what we want. How do your fears sap your passion? This morning I'm re-reading Steven Pressfield's Do the Work. And then I read this: . You may think that you've lost your passion, or that you can't identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. MORE >>

As 2012 draws to a close, its time to evaluate how in focus my lens on the future of enterprise mobile learning proved to be this past year and how many of my year ago predictions hit their targets. Overall interest in enterprise mobile learning definitely accelerated in 2012 with various surveys reporting that more than a simple majority of Learning and Development teams are committed to identifying ways to implement mobile learning for their workers and perhaps even customers as soon as practical in their organizations. So, that’s a wrap for 2012. On Target But. Bullseye. MORE >>