Just as companies’ sales, marketing, and operations functions must do business development in new ways in the global, mobile, social world, organizations must do employee development very differently as well. This month learning solution pioneer Skillsoft Corporation completed its acquisition of SumTotal Systems LLC to deliver on this disruptive vision and admirable mission.
HfS sees this as a huge step forward to deliver relevant, real-world support to the modern workforce where they are working and when they need it in a new combined content, service, and software delivery paradigm.
Now recent sales and marketing developments in terms of more consultative support, targeted market segmentation, and agile delivery capabilities have corollaries in the workforce support domain: topical and timely content, targeted and delivered to audiences that need it, embedded in business systems that they are using. The companies that use Skillsoft and SumTotal should be in a better position to enable those very sales and delivery professionals themselves.
