Report Reveals a Jump in Pressure on L&D to Measure Learning’s Impact
LEO Learning and Watershed Research Report Reveals a Jump in Pressure on L&D to Measure Learning’s Impact. The second research insight by LEO on the business impact of learning draws on responses from 700 global organisations.
LEO Learning, award-winning bespoke learning technologies solutions and content provider, has published its second report analysing the business impact of learning. LEO Learning, in partnership with analytics experts, Watershed, has now surveyed nearly 700 major organisations* to understand their views of learning.
A survey of six key questions looking at attitudes towards measuring learning programmes was sent to global organisations, whose responses provided the first set of year-on-year statistics on the big data approach to learning.
Headline findings
- 83% agree or strongly agree that a big data approach plays a key role in supporting decision making inside organisations compared to 77% in 2017
- 96% of Learning & Development (L&D) executives want to measure the business impact of learning programmes (2017: 86%)
- 89% believe it is possible to demonstrate the impact of learning compared to 78% in 2017
- 60% agreed that there is increased pressure for training managers to justify investment in Learning & Development (2017: 35%)
Piers Lea, Chief Strategy Officer of Learning Technologies Group and LEO Learning, commented:
“We’ve been very interested to see the trends in this report. It’s clear that a lack of pressure from leadership to measure business impact would lead to ‘competing priorities’ being the main issue preventing progress. So the fact that those feeling pressure has risen from 35% to 60% is significant.”
The research paper is available at: leolearning.com/resources/measuring-business-impact-learning-2018-survey-results/. More LEO Learning research, white papers, ebooks and insights into the subject of measuring the business impact of learning can be found at leolearning.com/resources.
Notes to editors
*The 700 organisations include Disney, Amazon, IBM, Xerox, Bayer, Thomson Reuters, Jaguar Land Rover, Novartis, Roche, DHL, Tetra Pak, Virgin Media, World Health Organization, John Lewis Partnership, Deloitte, Santander, Volvo, Nestlé, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Sainsbury’s, and the UK Ministry of Defence.