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The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

A major announcement in the human capital management (HCM) world occurred on April 26, 2011. SuccessFactors, a top vendor in performance management, announced its intention to purchase Plateau...
Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...

Plateau Leads In Learning; Cornerstone OnDemand Leads In Performance
In Forrester's 108-criteria evaluation of talent management vendors that offer suites for both learning and performance, we found that Plateau Systems edged out Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba Software,...
I attended the Taleo customer conference last week in Chicago where CEO Michael Gregoire in his opening session speech boasted about Taleo’s recent acquisition of Learn.com, a $26...
I’m thrilled to see “people” talked about as a major focus of business. Company executives recognize that people are critical to sustainable organizational growth. Talent is now a...
Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...
The business world has long known and relied upon mentoring as a proven technique for developing in-house talent. Today, mentoring is experiencing a resurgence because business leaders not only...
For Christmas, my daughter Sarah gave me a book of photos of last summer’s family trip to Cape Cod. Each page was beautifully designed with descriptions of the events captured in the photos:...
We are looking for a global display screen equipment (DSE) training and assessment program that meets the needs of European Union legislation and adheres to good practices in managing new...
HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning
Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...
Continuous Improvement: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the continuous improvement component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will help application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros), CIOs, and their HR...

At Forrester, we think of strategic talent management as made up of four pillars: Recruiting, Performance (including succession and career development), Learning, and Compensation, which sit on top...
The mobile landscape is changing daily — new devices and more secure device management platforms, easier accessibility to content from multiple devices, evolving mobile Web standards (e.g.,...
We'd like information about mobile learning software that can be used to push training material/courses to BlackBerry mobiles. Questions are: 1) The effectiveness of Chalk Pushcast software —...
As Millennials, with their Digital Native technology skills and experience with social media, stream into the workforce, businesses must re-evaluate their approach to corporate learning so that...

Today’s top career sites do more than list jobs available. The best ones give a glimpse of what it’s like to work at the company, communicate the company values, and introduce the...
ERP vendors are showing strong interest in the HRM SaaS market. They are either attempting to build a solution (as Oracle is doing with Fusion) or looking to acquire HRM functionality (as SAP is...
3g Selling Gives A Glimpse Of The Future "Classroom"
3g Selling is a training company that transformed itself from a classroom training provider to a live virtual training organization using a format that maintains an 85% to 90% learner completion...
Technology Users Can Learn On The Fly With This Electronic Content Solution
An electronic performance support system (EPSS) provides on-demand learning when technology users need help to do their jobs. Demonstrations, practice exercises, and onscreen help all give users...
Corporate higher education degree programs attract new employees. They provide an opportunity to continue working while earning an MBA, a master's degree, or another degree or certification that...
Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...
