I bailed early on Linda's presentation/discussion crashed the Supplier discussion. Missed some of the business updates but here are some trends highlights:
--Significant movement with talent in the industry...many jumping from one competitor to another.
--Consolidation of the industry has likely peaked for now.
--The outsourcing curve has also peaked...and some companies are bringing outsourced services back in house. Expect there to still be a balance between outsourcing and maintaining services in house.
--Offshore development continues to wane as new tools and local companies become more price competitive in addition to being faster and better at customized development.
One key message we received in this session is that suppliers need to be BRAVE. We need to push our own companies towards better methods of delivery and fight the internal and external battle to widget everything. One new trend discussed in this session is that there isn't much that's exciting that is coming from suppliers in the industry...either in tools or services.
Be BRAVE. That's an important message.
Good session,
CDH
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So in other words, things are pretty much going to sit still for awhile with the two eLearning provider giants ElementK and SkillSoft?
Has there been any discussion around why some companies are bringing services back in house? I think it would be interesting to see if companies are finding out that some functions regularily exceed predicted costs, and if this is true among entire industries.
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