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

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency" "Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery plat

"Your business relies on the cloud for agility, cost savings, and scalability, but how do you ensure that the cloud technologies enabling your business aren’t also introducing security risks, impacting customer experience (CX), or costing more than anticipated? That’s where Akamai comes in. This e-book explains how Akamai’s cloud delivery platform is designed to make the cloud work for you by extending and enabling your cloud infrastructure. Download the e-book to learn how Akamai can help you: Protect your business from cyberattacks Deliver more engaging online experiences Offload traffic to maximize scale, reliability, and cost efficiency"

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In today’s IT landscape, many organisations have adopted a cloud-first approach to business systems. Yet with so many vendors offering SaaS solutions, how do you know which vendor will enable you to achieve the true benefits SaaS has to offer? What are the characteristics to look for when considering a SaaS solution, and what are the real impacts on modern businesses? In this complimentary whitepaper, you will learn: • What real SaaS is and is not. • How to distinguish between real SaaS vendors and imposters. • The question of SaaS security. • Potential cost savings your company could gain from SaaS solutions. • If your company is ready to make the switch to SaaS. From IT professionals to anyone just looking to get a basic understanding of SaaS, this paper helps make sense of it all.

With nearly 20% of midmarket firms using Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and another 46% actively investigating and planning to adopt HCI solutions over the next 12-18 months, there has never been a more critical time to get ahead of your competition. Midsize businesses face the same need to modernize IT and embrace digital transformation as much as their larger competitors, but are typically restricted by resource and money. HCI enables midsize organizations to address these challenges with a solution that can grow as the business grows, without the financial burden or requiring to choose between on premise or public cloud solutions. The investments you make in IT technology and selecting the right HCI platform will impact your ability to evolve, grow and compete effectively in the future. Submit the form to read our latest whitepaper and discover how you can modernize IT and improve your midsize business operational efficiencies with vSAN.

In today’s IT landscape, many organisations have adopted a cloud-first approach to business systems. Yet with so many vendors offering SaaS solutions, how do you know which vendor will enable you to achieve the true benefits SaaS has to offer? What are the characteristics to look for when considering a SaaS solution, and what are the real impacts on modern businesses? In this complimentary whitepaper, you will learn: • What real SaaS is and is not. • How to distinguish between real SaaS vendors and imposters. • The question of SaaS security. • Potential cost savings your company could gain from SaaS solutions. • If your company is ready to make the switch to SaaS. From IT professionals to anyone just looking to get a basic understanding of SaaS, this paper helps make sense of it all.

In today’s IT landscape, many organisations have adopted a cloud-first approach to business systems. Yet with so many vendors offering SaaS solutions, how do you know which vendor will enable you to achieve the true benefits SaaS has to offer? What are the characteristics to look for when considering a SaaS solution, and what are the real impacts on modern businesses? In this complimentary whitepaper, you will learn: • What real SaaS is and is not. • How to distinguish between real SaaS vendors and imposters. • The question of SaaS security. • Potential cost savings your company could gain from SaaS solutions. • If your company is ready to make the switch to SaaS. From IT professionals to anyone just looking to get a basic understanding of SaaS, this paper helps make sense of it all.

Product recommendations are a proven way for marketers to drive sales, boosting the revenue potential of every shopping experience and increasing customer engagement overall. However, most current recommendations tools have not kept up with the level of personalisation that customers have come to expect, and they often fall short of the precision that marketing teams need to create meaningful business impact. It may be time to reevaluate whether your solution is doing all it can to meet the needs of your customers and your team.

Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering. Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure. Download this premium guide to understand how HCI can • Provide the resilience, scalability and performance to run all your applications without compromise. • Design the data center as a fluid resource that can immediately adapt to the evolving needs of the business. • Enable agility with scale-out architecture that eliminates the need to rip and replace for seamless growth and scale.

Does your current software give your business the visibility and flexibility you need to be responsive and competitive, or is outdated software negatively impacting business growth and excellent service? The retail world is becoming more complex. eCommerce has grown in the U.S.—from $42 billion to $236 billion in the last decade*—and lifestyle shopping is raising customer expectations. Having the right retail management software solution—one that can keep up with your business needs and the increasing pace of technology—is critical. Given the recent advancements in technology—and higher customer expectations—perhaps it’s time to ask if your retail management software is up to the task of nurturing and managing your growth over the coming decade. Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. Here are some risks you may face from using outdated software: 1. Excessive labor costs and hiring gaps 2. Operational inefficiencies 3. Insufficient data and insights 4. Dimi

Attracting & retaining talent are two of the most important functions of an HR organization, but paper has a nasty habit of tying up HR resources and keeping them from adding strategic value to the business. What’s more, new and existing employees must often wade through stacks of paper at various times throughout their tenure, which can reduce productivity, create frustration, and impact employee morale. This eBook will show you how these paper pains manifest for employees and HR at each stage of the employee lifecycle – and what impact they can have on the business as a whole. You will also learn how adoption of technologies like DocuSign can lead to a competitive advantage in HR.