Ulrich's impact on HR

‘Ulrich comes of age’ in HR Director and ‘Critics of Ulrich Model ignore new progress’ in HR Magazine

I have chosen to review these two short articles because they follow on from a survey carried out by Orion Partners, a relatively small firm of consultants in the field of talent management.  This organisation has successfully raised its profile by carrying out a survey of the HR functions of 40 businesses, most of which are large and global operations.

Big Data

‘Big Data’ by Jonathan Kettleborough, Training Journal, April and May 2014

I am reviewing here the two articles that have appeared in the Training Journal these last two months and will follow up with a further review when the third one is published next month.  I chose the topic because, as the first article admits, ‘Big Data’ is one of the latest corporate buzzwords, usually linked to ‘analytics’, which seems to be a fancy word for analysis.  I was interested to see how the author would make a connection with Learning & Development.

The Future of Business Learning

Earlier this year we canvassed the opinions of our contacts and clients to gauge if there were any identifiable trends in The Future of Business Learning.

We received feedback from leading learning organisations from AstraZeneca and Barclays to Unilever and Xerox.  We believe this sample to be in the vanguard of best practice and likely to be well informed about the challenges and changes now facing learning professionals.  

Click here to download the report of our findings