What is a Program Delivery Platform?
Josh Bersin recently edited his “HR Technology Market 2019: Disruption Ahead“ report, in which he analyzes the latest trends shaping the HR technologies market.
Who’s Josh Bersin?
Josh Bersin is an analyst, author, educator, and thought leader focusing on the global talent market and the challenges and trends impacting business workforces around the world. He studies the world of work, HR and leadership practices, and the broad talent technology market. He is often cited as one of the leading HR and workplace industry analysts in the world. He founded Bersin™ by Deloitte and is frequently featured in talent and business publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, HR Executive, FastCompany, The Wall Street Journal, and CLO Magazine. He is a regular keynote speaker at industry events and a popular blogger with more than 700,000 followers on LinkedIn.
Josh Bersin was speaking at the HRD Summit in Birmingham on February 5-6th. The Coorpacademy Team also attended this prestigious event.
Among the “HR Technology Market 2019: Disruption Ahead“ insights, we wanted to dwell on the future disruptions identified by Josh Bersin in the Learning Technologies market.
A few context elements: according to the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs” report, to face the ongoing job revolution due to Artificial Intelligence and automation, each and every employee needs to have an additional 101 days of training by 2022 to remain competitive. This simply can’t happen with legacy learning technologies.
Josh Bersin identified 8 categories of players giving companies the opportunity to have fully integrated training programs with a 360° approach to corporate learning. The possibilities for companies to implement a Corporate Digital Learning complete suite have never been so numerous.
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are in the “basement” of this approach to Corporate Learning. Josh Bersin states: “While companies have purchased more than $8 billion of LMS technology over the last decade, the LMS is no longer the center of corporate learning. As I like to explain, the LMS went the way of the mainframe. It has not disappeared, but it’s now in the basement doing the things it does well. […] In other words, it’s like a learning and training ERP system.”
While LMS technologies focus on piloting corporate training, Josh Bersin identifies 3 user-centered and user-facing categories of players, providing a complete learning experience. Learning Experience Platforms (LEP/LXP), Program Delivery Platforms and Micro-Learning Platforms. It is interesting to note that in the coming years, providing a learning experience won’t be enough anymore. The “YouTube of Learning” model reaches its limitations, “as companies now realize that just “finding content” is not enough. We also need to deliver an integrated learning experience.” A consistent experience, personalized for each learners according to the way he/she learns, the time he/she has, with curated content created for the learner.
Program Delivery Platforms are delivering this. “While we’d all like to have a YouTube system at work, there are times when we need a MOOC-like platform for learning. A MOOC, unlike a single video course, steps you through an entire curriculum and actually delivers you at a point where you have truly learned a new body of knowledge. Sales training, leadership development, onboarding, supervisory training, and engineering are such domains.”
Coorpacademy is recognized as a “Hot Vendor” in this Program Delivery Platforms space. These players provide a complete learning experience with differentiating content giving access to full bodies of knowledge; while also providing a personalized learning path for each and every learner. They also include content creation and curation and are supported by data for learning paths’ personalization. Josh Bersin is convinced that companies will be more and more looking for these types of solutions for their employees.
In the short Corporate Digital Learning life which started at the beginning of the 1990s, Josh Bersin thinks we’re entering a new phase: the “Learning in the Flow of Work” one. This is the phase where learning must be available at anytime in a workday. No more long training sessions requiring to spend days, even sometimes weeks away from work. Companies must give their employees platforms made for them, able to answer individual needs. Which are Program Delivery Platforms.