Learning is critical to enabling business strategy, from onboarding new hires to developing future leaders, to educating channel partners and customers. This study, based on responses collected from 185 organizations between July and September 2013, looks at how organizations connect learning to business priorities, create development programs that impact every stage of the employee lifecycle and utilize technology to support learning initiatives. It also examines the business impact of building learning capability and running effective learning programs. Research conducted by Aberdeen Group and brought to you thanks to Skillsoft.

Organizations that embrace and practice agility are proven to be more effective in dealing with change. Key to fostering agility is continuous learning and development. Learning is not an event-based occurrence where one-time training can satisfy skill gaps; learning opportunities need to be accessible, targeted, and continuous. With a strong learning culture that aligns with business objectives, companies are better able to embrace an agile mindset, and with increased agility, performance will improve and the overall business impact will increase.

We are all in the market for talent: to attract, retain and develop the best people that we can. This study looks at trends in the implementation and impact of learning technologies in the workplace.

Every organization strives for a workforce that is engaged, inspired, and motivated to perform at its best day in and day out. But what is the reality? According to Gallup, only 13 percent of all employees worldwide today are engaged in their jobs — an alarming statistic given the importance of the workforce in fueling growth and meeting other key enterprise goals. Employees are typically an organization’s most vital (and expensive) asset, and when they are disengaged and/or disenfranchised, the ripple effects across the business can impact your profitability and branding. In fact, each employee generation — and each individual — has unique needs and expectations regarding work. So how do you engage and inspire them? It requires a creative and differentiated approach that accounts for the unique characteristics and requirements of each generation. Fortunately, new human capital management (HCM) technologies are available today that can help you optimize employee engagement across a

The ability for the workforce to connect, collaborate, and get work done from anywhere - and at anytime - has never been more important. Today, businesses are embracing mobile-empowered workforces because of their correlation to higher productivity, collaboration, and engagement. In this guide, we’ll cover: • Mobile’s impact on culture • Mobility and the blended workforce • How business apps are redefining the way we work • Mobile’s impact on business performance • And more!

There are countless ways to measure workforce intelligence, but just tracking soft measurements such as "improvements" isn't enough. In order to get the attention of senior management while positively impacting business results, HR must challenge the way it uses workforce intelligence. To provide more meaningful analytics that help drive business success, HR should rely on metrics that focus on business goals, establish revenue impact, and anticipate future trends in the workforce. This e-guide will allow you to explore some of the most valuable reports and tools that HR professionals can turn to when delivering data to executives. Additionally, uncover tips for more effectively utilizing your workforce data to make fact-based decisions about human capital investments as they relate to business and financial objectives.

Your employees are your secret weapon and your competitive advantage. Imagine how your business would thrive if you could multiply your workforce’s impact without adding to the payroll! Through 5 talent strategies, your organization can do just this by increasing the productivity of each employee. In our new whitepaper, “Shifting the Employee Productivity Curve with Smart Talent Management Strategies,” you'll learn: • What the employee productivity curve is and how shifting the curve impacts your organization's bottom line. • 5 practical measures you can take to enhance employee productivity. • Stories of organizations that have successfully shifted the curve. Your organization has already seen how adopting talent management solutions can impact employee productivity. Download this paper to learn what else your organization can do to shift the curve even further.

This report, created in conjunction with partner Human Capital Institute (HCI), is based on an extensive survey of more than 600 global organizations. It examines the far-reaching economic impact of talent intelligence.

This document outlines two ways that changes in business can impact succession planning and why integrating talent management processes can fill all your talent gaps.

While compliance and reporting are absolutely necessary, they will not be sufficient to truly enable an organization's business strategy. Taking this opportunity to think through the ways in which workforce management strategy supports overall business objectives can position HR leads to have a huge impact on organizational performance, as well as costs. This Research Brief looks at how organizations respond to the ACA, as well as the underlying technology foundation that can enable both reporting and the execution of an overall workforce management strategy.

In 2017, business, societal and political events transpired at a pace that left many with a fractured view of the ethics & compliance industry and its expectations. Download the top 10 predictions that could influence your organization's ethics and compliance program in 2018, and our recommendations for what you can do right now. What you'll learn: The top trends and events that will impact your ethics and compliance program in 2018 How increased awareness and reporting of sexual harassment will affect your program The evolving role of the ethics & compliance officer How to create a culture of compliance

Direct, frequent conversation is important for an organizational culture.1 Ed Batista, Instructor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and executive coach tells us that “to become more effective and fulfilled at work, people need a keen understanding of their impact on others and the extent to which they’re achieving their goals in their working relationships. Direct feedback is the most efficient way for them to gather this information and learn from it.” 2

Most organizations have invested, and continue to invest, in people, processes, technology, and policies to meet customer privacy requirements and avoid significant fines and other penalties. In addition, data breaches continue to expose the personal information of millions of people, and organizations are concerned about the products they buy, services they use, people they employ, and with whom they partner and do business with generally. As a result, customers are asking more questions during the buying cycle about how their data is captured, used, transferred, shared, stored, and destroyed. In last year’s study (Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study), Cisco introduced data and insights regarding how these privacy concerns were negatively impacting the buying cycle and timelines. This year’s research updates those findings and explores the benefits associated with privacy investment. Cisco’s Data Privacy Benchmark Study utilizes data from Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Benchma

INDUSTRY Technology BUSINESS CHALLENGE Reduce the impact of malware on enterprise resources IT ENVIRONMENT Symantec antivirus, layered enterprise security SOLUTION Malwarebytes Incident Response RESULTS Saved hours per week by eliminating manual threat remediation Detected and remediated threats that otherwise would not have been found Eliminated downtime for end users with thorough scans and fast remediation Easily generated reports that keep upper management informed

A single outage can be the thread that causes business services to unravel. Can you quickly identify the root cause of an outage and its impact on your business? See how ServiceNow helps customers seamlessly connect their IT infrastructure to transform the customer experience for business stakeholders.

IT asset data that is complete, current across its lifecycle, accurate, and useful is required for running IT as a business. This is only possible when all the disparate data sources are brought together for a unified understanding on a single, rationalized basis. See the changing role of ITAM policy, process, technology, function, and its impact to your business with this white paper.

Insights into avoiding migration regret amongst CxO’s: The decision to move business workloads and applications to the cloud impacts all parts of the business and isn’t a decision isolated to the IT team. Our latest research study on the different motives, concerns and experiences of executive peers and business stakeholders when securing buy-in for a strategic IT move found 97% of C-level executives in ANZ suffered from migration regret during their first cloud migration. Packed with telling hindsight, over 200 c-suite executives shared their expectations and experiences during the cloud migration journey. They reveal what they would have done differently - namely enhanced communication and a clear plan of action - and offer practical advice to help others get buy-in internally and secure funding to support a move to the cloud.

Delivering personalized customer experience remains the top business challenge for communications service providers (CSPs). Ovum's recently published 2018 ICT Enterprise survey saw almost all CSP IT executives interviewed identify delivering personalized customer experience as one of their three most important business challenges for the next 18 months. This trend emphasizes the high priority CSPs place on how customer relationships are managed. However, several factors have an impact on CSPs' ability to identify and then deliver customers' core needs. These include understanding the data sets they should focus on; collecting, cleansing, and consolidating these data sets; and having the right expertise to mine the data sets.

IDC Infobrief: How Security Solutions Enable Cloud Success Cloud applications have transformed how organizations conduct business, increasing productivity and reducing costs. However, moving to the cloud means critical data now flows outside the organization’s traditional security boundaries. Unsurprisingly, security concerns still rank as the number one reason for not using cloud services*. This IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Forcepoint, outlines five key security considerations and best practices for safe cloud adoption, including: Multi-cloud adoption: exposing challenges for security architectures Cloud-first and GDPR implications Cloud application visibility and control Data management and DLP in the cloud Leveraging User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) for protection Read the eBook to find out the five information security lessons learned from transitioning to the cloud. *IDC’s 2017 CloudView Survey; IDC’s 2017 CloudImpact Survey

IDC Infobrief: How Security Solutions Enable Cloud Success Cloud applications have transformed how organizations conduct business, increasing productivity and reducing costs. However, moving to the cloud means critical data now flows outside the organization’s traditional security boundaries. Unsurprisingly, security concerns still rank as the number one reason for not using cloud services*. This IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Forcepoint, outlines five key security considerations and best practices for safe cloud adoption, including: Multi-cloud adoption: exposing challenges for security architectures Cloud-first and GDPR implications Cloud application visibility and control Data management and DLP in the cloud Leveraging User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) for protection Read the eBook to find out the five information security lessons learned from transitioning to the cloud. *IDC’s 2017 CloudView Survey; IDC’s 2017 CloudImpact Survey

Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

In Q4, 2009, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) analysts worked with ASG to research how executives in IT and within the lines of business use dashboards to gain holistic insights into IT services as they impact business outcomes.

As a broker, your customers look to you to provide guidance, education and cost savings in a world filled with ever-changing regulations and skyrocketing costs. See where Houston businesses find the most value in their brokers and what new options exist to help contain costs. • Learn where Houston businesses see brokers adding value • See the impact carrier satisfaction has on changing carriers • Read about new cost-containing options to help your clients

Houston businesses are as unique as Houston itself. But not every business looks at healthcare the same. See what other Houston businesses are choosing to offer their employees, how satisfied they are with their choices, and what other cost-reducing options are available. • Learn what % of employees live in Houston, and how that impacts health care costs • See how happy businesses are with current carriers and what that means at renewal time • Find out what alternative options smart businesses are looking at

Culture has become one of the most important business topics of 2016. CEOs and HR leaders now recognize that culture drives people's behavior, innovation, and customer service: 82 percent of survey respondents believe that "culture is a potential competitive advantage." Knowing that leadership behavior and reward systems directly impact organizational performance, customer service, employee engagement, and retention, leading companies are using data and behavioral information to manage and influence their culture.