The LMS market remains very hot, and so does Facebook (below). Comments on both. This week Peoplefluent (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria and Peopleclick) announced the acquisition of Strategia, a small but very successful enterprise learning management systems company. Read the Full Article

The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away. Over the last year I've been speaking with many corporate business and HR leaders and have heard a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign the organization so we can learn faster, communicate better, and respond more rapidly to change. Read the Full Article

SAP, the world's largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company's quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3. 4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1. Read the Full Article

Talent management makes money. If you are trying to build a business case for a corporate talent management program, here is some astounding data: Of the 700+ organizations we studied in 2010 and 2011, only 7% told us that they have a "strategic talent management" program. We defined talent management in four levels of maturity: Silo'd (all HR practices operate seperately, with little standardization) Standardized (HR practices standardizes, but not highly integrated with each other) Integrated (A talent management leader in place, but integration still in process) Strategic (A high degree of integration with business leaders taking charge for most talent practices). Read the Full Article

Wow.  After more than three years of decline in spending, corporate training budgets just jumped up 9. 5% last year. Read the Full Article