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2013 Business Impact -- Division 2

CLO Magazine

GOLD: Jenny Dearborn, Chief Learning Officer, SuccessFactors When software company SAP acquired SuccessFactors in December 2011, it wanted to reach its 176,000 newly acquired customers. To do so, the cloud-based talent-management company needed to accelerate development of its management team through data-based training.

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Are You Riding the Waves or the Ripples? Tracking Learning Trends

Vignettes Learning

12, 2013, spoke of how they have made training on software at SAP more engaging for workers with the use of gamification. Cloud Computing The “ cloud ” will enable us to afford cheaper, faster and easier ways to design and deliver learning. Gamification Mario Herger , at the Caltech Entrepreneurs’ Forum last Jan.

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Disruptive Technologies and the Future of Learning & Development

Convergence Training

We have cloud computing, we have the ability to host these large amounts of data, we have tools sophisticated enough to do analysis, so I think that’s why there are a lot of innovations in this space right now. And in 2013 or 2014, they decided to introduce chatbot to their course to help.