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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

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The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

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A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . The buy was a bad relationship in the making, one where the owner – “Skillsoft” and ownee “SumTotal” never seemed to get on track with one another.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

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NetG, Element K, being just two. Strategic blunder of major proportions in the acquisition of SumTotal has continued to hurt them (i.e., Fun fact – The new SumTotal front-end was from Percipio (Skillsoft’s LXP platform). Skillsoft – Dominated the course/content marketplace. Skillsoft).

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OpenSesame Staffs Up: New Hires Bring Experience and Build Community

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Frank also has experience in learning and talent management solutions from other leading performance software companies including Element K, Thomson Learning and Kronos. Pete LeDoux, National Account Executive. Spencer is the consummate Midwesterner: incredibly friendly, full of ideas and intent on fixing the most challenging problems.

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M-Learning: Where’s the app for that?

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But wait, it is only tells me about the latest news from them, which is great to know, since when I think LMSs – I think news! Yep, an app. But if you can’t recall your activation code, well, then it is about as wonderful as the EmTrain app – worthless. Yes, they have an app.

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