The SPOTLIGHT ON FINANCE REPORT provides an insight into the how the sector is developing their e-enabled learning strategy. We review the strengths and weaknesses of implementation practices, as compared with top learning companies who are achieving the highest impact from their implementation of learning technologies in the workplace.

We are able to make the SPOTLIGHT ON FINANCE REPORT for 2013 availble free of charge thanks to one of our Founding Ambassadors, Brightwave who are also the sponsors of our Finance Benchmarking Group. Download here free of charge.

The SPOTLIGHT on Professional Services REPORT provides valuable insights into how to drive the transformation of learning and development in this sector and integrate it into the workplace. We review the strengths and weaknesses of implementation practices, as compared with top learning companies who are achieving the highest impact from their implementation of learning technologies in the workplace.

If you are an L&D professional in the sector this report has been designed to help you to take action!

This Benchmark Industry Group Associate Membership entitles you to join your chosen industry group for a year. Establish how your organisation compares with the leaders in your sector.
Normal price of Associate Membership is £1000 plus vat. As a promotional price, we’re offering this membership for £500 plus vat.

Benefits include –

• Participation in 3 workshops and networking events per year
• Industry sector benchmarking
• Receive your industry sector report
• One year’s Premium Membership of the Benchmark Centre

Participation is by invitation only, please contact nigel@towardsmaturity.org for details of sector groups, membership criteria, conditions and availability.

This new In-Focus report introduces immersive online experiencial learning, and explores how employers are using these technologies to build new skills and where they fit into the learning process.

This In-Focus report has been independently researched and written by the Towards Maturity team and is sponsored by our Ambassador Toolwire. Download here for free.

Premium membership entitles you to all publications in this book shop free-of-charge. The Towards Maturity Benchmark Centre is an online service with tools and resources that helps organisations get better results, faster from their investment in learning technologies. As a promotional price, we’re offering this membership for £600 plus vat.

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A 16 page free In-Focus report – Mobile Learning at Work – identifies the key trends in m-learning, helping organisations understand how their peers are using this growing learning technology and how to plan effectively.

This In-Focus report was commissioned by Upside Learning, a Towards Maturity Ambassador. Download here for free.

Today’s leaders and managers have to drive business in a VUCA world – one which is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous – and this demands new approaches and new thinking. Those leaders who have been trained in old style management thinking will be ill prepared for working in this new environment.

It is free-of-charge thanks to Epic, a Founding Ambassador of the Towards Maturity Ambassador Programme. Download the report here.

In Towards Maturity’s 2012 Benchmark Report – Bridging the Gap – Integrating learning and work, we examine:

• > The bottom line benefits – unmissible evidence to help build your business case
• > Top Trends – separating the hype from reality
• > 7 missed L&D opportunities
• > Learning from the top performers

‘Use the study to help you to stay on top of your game through benchmarking with others.‘
Richard Beaven, Customer Services Director, General Insurance at Lloyds Banking Group. Download free of charge here.

The report explores the impact of learning technologies on business agility, business impact, efficiency and talent management and investigates the implemenation behaviours of top performers.

Craig McCoy, HR Director of Bupa Health and Wellbeing comments in the foreword:
‘If HR is looking to establish a credible relationship with the business, we can’t afford to ignore the tangible business benefits illustrated by this report…’ Download the report free-of-charge here.

The Retail sector is one of the most highly motivated sectors in its expectations of what learning technologies can deliver. Over 50% of staff in these organisations are now accessing technology-enabled learning. However, with benefits attributed to use of learning technologies decreasing in almost every area of business, what can the retail sector do so that learning technologies begins to meet its own expectations and improve business perforance? Read on…

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Organisations in the Professional Services sector are achieving significant cost savings on compliance-related e-learning. They are delivering greater business agility, improving the ability to roll out new products, processes and IT systems. However, learner engagement is still an area that needs to be improved. Read on to learn from this sector’s successes and challenges.

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Many public sector organisations are looking to technology to increase flexibility, access to learning, reduce costs and support organisational change. The report answers the big question: Have they achieved it?
The private sector is realising the benefits e-enabling more of its learning, but are there still lessons it can learn from both the public sector and not-for-profits? Read on…

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Discover what organisations in the Manufacturing sector are doing with their use of learning technologies to achieve the highest reductions in time to competency. Also, discover what this sector can do to both explore a greater range of available technologies and how to implement them across the breadth of skills programmes they offer.

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As a result of implementing learning technologies the Local Government sector has managed to achieve real savings, a critical factor when the sector faces ever decreasing training budgets. This report describes this sector’s energy to seek innovative and efficient solutions and to make use of a wide variety of delivery channels and learning resources.

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Maybe unexpectedly, Learning Services are leading the way in the use of social media to support learners and encourage collaborative learning. However, this report shows that many in the sector are, surprisingly, playing things safe and derive lower benefits than claimed by many of their customers. What could be going in the Learning Services sector? Read on…

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Whilst this sector has some notable innovators in regard to eLearning technologies, the IT and Telecoms sector has not maintained the edge that we reported in 2010. This report describes how this has happened, and importantly, suggests ways in which it can learn from examples of high performing Learning and Development teams in other sectors.

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If you work in the Health and Social Care sector discover how the sector has developed a strong motivation towards e-learning, and how technology is starting to deliver improved efficiencies in learning and development. Also find out about the barriers facing this sector and what it can do to increase learner engagement and improve technology infrastructure.

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Organisations in the Finance and Insurance sector take a conservative approach to learning technologies. This report shows that even though this sector does not embrace mobile and social networks in its eLearning, its learning technologies provide a great means of demonstrating job competence and ensuring compliance with their heavily regulated industry requirements.

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The Central government and Public Administration sector has high expectations of their learning technologies. However, they are not realising many of the benefits they seek or achieving the time or cost savings other sectors can demonstrate.
Discover current good practice in this sector and also what can be done differently.

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