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Wednesday 19 April 2017

HR learning: 17 Apr, 2017

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Role of talent analytics in redefining learning culture.
Talent analytics is the catalyst that’s gaining immense importance in making learning more agile and accurate. 
While organisations are investing huge efforts in designing the best-in-class learning solutions for talent development, talent analytics is the catalyst that’s gaining immense importance in making learning more agile and accurate. Whether need-based or not, if learning is the prescription to a condition (or a probable condition), analytics is the diagnostic mechanism that helps get to the root of the condition, ensuring that the best prescription is offered. It is now a well-established fact that efficient talent analytics is critical to learning design.
In fact, analytics enables HR professionals to analyse, interpret, and make the best possible decisions and recommendations based on workforce data. It is crucial for organisations to determine what workforce-related problems they need to solve and how addressing those workforce challenges will impact organisational effectiveness. It is analytics that helps identify the same.

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SumTotal offers talent, learning, recruitment, and workforce management in single suite
The expanded platform advances usability and functionality to enable employees to develop, lead, and achieve.
The talent management solutions provider, SumTotal, recently unveiled a range of new features and additions to the SumTotal Talent Expansion® Suite—the first in the industry to bring talent, learning, recruitment, and workforce management on one platform.
This release includes expanded access to learning content, enhancements to the visually engaging user interface, improved browsing and search capabilities, and deployment flexibility to meet the complex technical requirements of modern organisations, both in the cloud and on premise. The Suite simplifies and streamlines talent management for organisations and engages employees with innovative solutions to know, mobilise, develop, promote, reward, and incentivise global organisations of all sizes.
“Since the acquisition of SumTotal we have invested significantly in bringing a platform, that delivers rich functionality on a beautiful consumer-led experience, to the market. Last year, we brought learning and talent together in our Talent Expansion Suite and with this release, we have a unique proposition —delivering talent, learning, recruitment and  workforce management on a single, unified data SaaS platform," said Bill Donoghue, chairman and CEO, Skillsoft.

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Will train 2.5 lakh Indian students to make them future-ready: Cisco
Cisco has announced that it will train 2,50,000 Indian students in cyber security, networking, and Internet of Things, to make them future ready.
A leader from the technology company Cisco has said that the organisation plans to skill 2,50,000 Indian students in networking, security and Internet of Things (IoT) over a fixed period of time, says a news report. The move is expected to give a boost to tech start-up field, and also train students in accordance with the skill requirements of the future. 
Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India & SAARC, said, “We have done a lot of work in education and there are campuses that use our technology. We will skill 250,000 students in the country around networking, security and IoT areas over a period of time... We are extremely focused on India. We have been here for 20 years, we have R&D facilities, global delivery centres and have also invested heavily in the country in regards to Digital India perspective.” The organisation has been in news for being an active participant in the Digital India schemes and initiatives launched by the government, specially the Smart City project.

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