Breakthrough eLearning

OCTOBER 9, 2007

I received an email invitation today to join a webinar to be led by Ed Cohen, the Chief Technology Officer of Plateau Systems, titled "The Future of Learning Content." I took a pass. I took a pass. However, what is sorely missing in the world of eLearning today is CONTEXT.

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Plume - e-learning & learning management systems

APRIL 16, 2020

For online course creators and training providers a subscription model approach offers new opportunities to work less and earn more by increasing the value you bring to your customers. Depending on the size of your business or elearning offering, you may have strived for repeat purchases by nurturing customer loyalty or referral programs.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

IESE Business School, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, consistently ranks on the Financial Times ’ annual twin rankings of executive education programs worldwide; the publication does separate rankings for open-enrollment programs and customized courses. opening a center in New York City in 2007.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2016

Custom initiatives will also get better as people make more thoughtful choices on what type of game or gamification to implement… and when to do it. Plateau of Productivity – the technology finds its place and becomes mainstream. Those with strong underpinnings will remain. Criteria for viability are clear.

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Meridian

DECEMBER 13, 2018

These new staff possess a combination of operational, sales and marketing expertise that will greatly help the firm to achieve significant growth, as well as support its current customer base of federal, state, local and commercial organizations. and Plateau Systems. “We Meridian has been chosen by leading organizations including U.S.

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InsiderHub

JUNE 24, 2014

This could signal that many organizations want to use an LMS, but have special customization needs and commercially-available options just do not fit these needs. In the study, internally-developed systems were the second-most popular solution owned.

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KnowledgeCity

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

To stay competitive, explore new opportunities for growth, and to meet the needs of their customers and teams. Your business has hit a plateau. Loyal customers have jumped ship. Number one, ask your customer for feedback. Why is Organizational Change Important? How do you know when it’s time for organizational change?

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KnowledgeCity

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

To stay competitive, explore new opportunities for growth, and to meet the needs of their customers and teams. Your business has hit a plateau. Loyal customers have jumped ship. Number one, ask your customer for feedback. To challenge the status quo, businesses need to know when it is time for a change and embrace it.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Use Plateau SaaS model as the TMS. Hard to log in, hard to pull records. Went out and asked stakeholders what they needed, what they liked/didn’t like about system. We scrubbed everything and went back to the drawing board. Serve 350,000 VA employees. Serve additional contractors.

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Talented Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

At that time, interest in training customers, channel partners and others “outside the firewall” was on the rise, but many organizations either could not or would not use their internal employee-focused LMS to support external learning programs. In contrast, employees are forced to participate in training for compliance purposes.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We often hear from customers that the motivation to engage in coaching conversations seems to plateau over time. Participants who perceived exercising to be associated with rewards (both internal and external) were more likely to maintain an exercise habit than participants who did not associate exercising with reward.

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Coassemble

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

So having a scalable growth solution is critical to prevent plateauing. Some things Ryan encourages Coassemble customers and all of our listeners to consider during their search include: Who is going to own the actual “training” creation and delivery? This is the most common point a company realizes they need to adapt their processes.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 20, 2018

Some are going through a steep learning curve early in their role, others may have plateaued and be looking for tips and techniques, and others simply want to reinvent themselves. Every employee in your company (from sales person to service worker to senior executive) has a learning curve for their job.

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LifterLMS

JUNE 6, 2019

Helping consultants, experts, and coaches smash through personal and professional plateaus with David Shriner-Cahn in this episode of the LMScast podcast with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. He has a podcast called Smashing the Plateau. How did you come up with Smashing the Plateau? In most cases it doesn’t work out that way.

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Coassemble

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Today we’re going to talk about how Elliot and TIG Brands use empathy to guide their customers, drive business growth, and what role online training played in 2020 plans. What if he could improve the flawed aspects of these models and apply them to the natural product space where his customers stemmed from? Let’s dive in, shall we?

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Coassemble

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Today we’re going to talk about how Elliot and TIG Brands use empathy to guide their customers, drive business growth, and what role online training played in 2020 plans. What if he could improve the flawed aspects of these models and apply them to the natural product space where his customers stemmed from? Let’s dive in, shall we?

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Big Dog (Saba, SumTotal, Plateau, Cornerstone OnDemand, Learn.com). If you are seeking TM as your focus and you want one of the big dogs – I found Plateau’s system to offer appropriate functionality for it, but found some real concern in other areas (see my product review). These standout to me. Categories. Razor thin?

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eFront

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It’s also important to approach prospective customers directly, but also to talk to prospective partners and other industry players (conferences and other such industry events are good places to do both, but for the former, cold calling can also be an option – just don’t be spammy). Know your clients.

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Aptara

JULY 3, 2014

When publishers move into the mobile content space, it's important to ensure that their devices of choice are prevalent among their targeted customer base. Not only is the plateau in sales good news for the obvious reason that it signifies a large and happy install base, it may also invite an aggressive wave of further product sales.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 26, 2017

One competitor purchased a VLP as a key component, SAP purchased SuccessFactors, a recruiting system initially turned HCM, who had acquired Plateau, a strong but awful UI/UX LMS. SuccessFactors constantly stated they would invest heavily into Plateau and initially, vast improvement was to be found.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 16, 2013

The user interface is slick – way better than the days of Plateau – which some people still call it – uh, its not. It is way better than anything Plateau ever did, but for the amount of money the system costs and the fact SAP now owns them, there is no reason that the UI should look like it does. Pricing is high.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 20, 2021

People get to a point of plateau with their skills, and I’d love to see more of an emphasis on how to move people beyond that. If you want to move some simple customer service requests to a chatbot, for example, you need to record and decode real customer conversations to identify the patterns of how those conversations are going now.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 16, 2012

Oracle then followed suit by acquiring SuccessFactors who had acquired Plateau in the past. I’m sure the people who had purchased Plateau or even SuccessFactors Learning system were delighted to hear the news. It is just another pitch to drive customers using a fear factor, that frankly is getting tiresome.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most of it came, via 3rd party providers, or what we referred to as “boutique shops” – think custom development (fee-based) that someone, company, government, institution, and so forth hired to create a course or courses. Back to the original days, who did well Plateau Learning – Today? BB dominated.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Plateau of Productivity. Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations. Our evidence? All the MOOCs out there.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 18, 2022

PeakSpan has been actively investing in Human Capital Management, HR Technology, Learning & Development, and Education Technology broadly for decades with representative investments (prior and current) including HireVue , Plateau Systems (acq. by SAP SuccessFactors), Epignosis , Fuel50 , Kudoboard , Rallyware , Bongo , and more.

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eFront

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Your trainings seem to be hitting the plateau. Think of an old goal in a Customer Service course: “Teach learners all about quality service.” The revised, action-driven goal can be “Teach learners how to increase customer registrations by 20% by Q4 of 2015.” You, and the performance evaluation committee. Study job descriptions.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 26, 2011

SuccessFactors added LMS provider Plateau to its growing suite of integrated talent management products. In the LMS market, acquisitions have been coming fast and furious in the last year. SumTotal Systems picked up Geolearning at the beginning of 2011.

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eLearning 24-7

MAY 7, 2013

Plateau is long gone and buried and people should realize that. A few years back I had a call with Saba and in the call they told me that 63% of their customers were using their platform as a talent and performance management system and not as a LMS. ” They were listed number 20 in 2012.

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Saba SumTotal LMS Cornerstone 74

eLearning 24-7

APRIL 25, 2022

Let’s say you the person overseeing L&D or Training or whatever department oversees learning and training for your employees, customers, members, whomever. I really like that they have templates for folks who are providing customer education (many authoring tools do not). Hybrid equally so. What are they afraid of?

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SuccessFactors – Just for those folks to remember, SF is owned by SAP and had acquired Plateau. They haven’t been Plateau for a few years, so stop calling them Plateau – a pet peeve of mine. And BTW, nearly every LMS can interface with Oracle products. SF is underwhelming in my book.

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Limestone Learning

JUNE 28, 2019

Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 8AM – 9AM PT: Customer Service Training Discussion with Lisa Crockett and Host Kristen Hayden Safdie Join EngageTHEM.org Founder, Lisa Crockett and Host Kristen Hayden Safide, as they discuss customer service training—with a bonus discussion about developing a portfolio.

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Free Authoring Tools Adobe Captivate Blended Learning 60

Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Every LMS tried to be all things to all types of customers in all industries. A steady flurry of acquisitions disrupted customers’ lives but never the market as a whole. Innovation was stagnant and most vendor effort was invested in stealing customers from one another. SAP acquired SuccessFactors who had acquired Plateau.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Custom domain option. Support is fantastic and what I have found is they really care about their customers, a rarity in today’s space. I’ve never heard them say, “nope, we can’t do that” From a customer standpoint – that’s awesome. Classroom mgt, event mgt., SCORM compliant.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The challenge though is that there are customers who have no desire and zero interest to use or have a TM in their system. Even if it is integrated at no additional charge, there are customers who will never use it. Continued increase in the number of vendors, regardless of size or target customer size (i.e What do you do?

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 14, 2017

Vendors in corporate only, regardless if they were employee only, B2B/B2C only or a combination of employee/customer/partner and so forth. Includes free sandbox after customer goes live. is a sales enablement learning platform which can also be used for customer service. Location was not a factor here. New apps too.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

iPad Cornerstone OnDemand Plateau Saba Augmented Reality Cloud Computing Analytics Mobile Learning GeoLearning Performance Support Outsource Low Cost iPhone Learning Theory Creative Commons Facebook Portal Learn.com Leadership eLearning Strategy Knowledge Management Voiceover Obviously, the Cornerstone OnDemand is because of the IPO.

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