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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

In my grouping, I interspersed it with historical references that are not tied to our industry for the purpose of just doing it. The system used to have a lot of potential, so the first thing to come up with was what they referred to as TIM (think a mentor thing that helps you). At the time is seemed clearly as though they struck gold.

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Enterprise Learning Systems – How I love thee?

eLearning 24-7

Sadly, one day I called, they were out of business, sold to the nefarious NetG – who likely placed them in a huge warehouse next to the remains of a famous pharaoh. ” They won’t be in business if they say, “Oh, for privacy, or PII, yeah, we are horrible at that. References from the vendor are worthless.

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Content – Change the Narrative

eLearning 24-7

Leadership, Business Skills, Safety, Compliance-related, Software, Coaching and Software skills. Top name drivers are LinkedIn Learning, Harvard Business and recently Pluralsight (which is also learning technology too). Harvard Business is you buying a brand name. I’m referring to the employee here.

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Skillsoft – An Analyst Perspective

eLearning 24-7

A vendor who made not only poor business decisions with the likes of Percipio, but also with the monumental blunder of acquiring SumTotal. . Where SumTotal sales people never pushed Percipio as an add-on or addition to SumTotal Learning, even referring it an an “afterthought” as one senior sales executive once told me.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

I personally think what has hurt them in the greater market is the push by so many vendors (some of which are legit competitors) to refer to them as “traditional”, citing how long they have been around. NetG, Element K, being just two. Yes, the admin side, needs a revamp, but feature-wise, they are top tier. Skillsoft).

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I need your advice on learning profiles

The Learning Circuits

full disclosure - As some of you may know, I joined Thomson NETg in January to run one of their strategic business units called Collaboration (essentially what was KnowledgeNet whom they acquired in late 2004). • I would start setting up my voice mail and never refer to the manual.

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A Conversation with Bryan Austin of mLevel

Kapp Notes

Bryan has had a distinguished career in corporate Learning & Development, including leadership roles with Skillsoft, Kaplan, AchieveGlobal and NETg. Austin: Corporate learning functions are often stretched too thin by the business’ increasing demand for learning programs coupled with the increasing pace of change.