Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2018 - 59

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Mediafly, a mobile sales enablement
solution that enhances how sales
organizations
engage
buyers,
announced the acquisition of Alinean,
Inc., a software and consulting company
dedicated to empowering B2B sales and
marketing teams to better communicate
and quantify the value of their products
and solutions to buyers. The acquisition
will complement Mediafly's Evolved
Selling™ platform by adding interactive
sales tools that help sellers sell based on
facts instead of anecdotes.
Collaborative Solutions has completed
its acquisition of Australia-based Theory
of Mind Pty Ltd., a highly-regarded
Workday services firm in the Asia-Pacific
region. The combined firm, which will
operate as Collaborative Solutions, LLC.,
is a unique, global-reaching consultancy
with local expertise in all the primary
geographies around the world.

Grace Hill announced the acquisition
of The Strategic Solution, effectively
aligning the multifamily industry's
leading provider of online training
and compliance coverage with the
top provider of online policies and
procedures. The move provides a
comprehensive way to integrate policies
and procedures with training, resulting
in improved company performance,
reduced compliance risk and increased
employee engagement.
NovoEd, the leading provider of social
and collaborative online learning
for the enterprise, announced that
the company has been acquired by
Boston-based private equity group
Devonshire
Investors.
Resources
provided by Devonshire will allow
NovoEd to accelerate its momentum in
the corporate and executive education
markets.

John Wiley & Sons, a leader in research
and education, announced it has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire Learning
House, a diversified education services
provider, from Weld North Holdings. The
addition of Learning House to Wiley's
portfolio of tech-enabled education
services positions them as a leader
in the market for services that help
institutions, corporations, professionals,
and students to achieve their goals.
HT2 Labs has acquired Riptide
Software's Learning Record Store
(LRS) product through a combined
partnership
between
the
two
companies. This acquisition between
two leaders in the e-learning industry
will add Riptide's U.S.-based presence
to HT2's global footprint, forming the
most comprehensive LRS platform and
services business available powered
by the Experience API.

INDUSTRY NE WS
REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY
THAT MANAGES AND MEASURES
LEADERSHIP COACHING

As companies continue to invest in
leadership coaching, the need to
manage and measure coaching's impact
is critical. SkylineG's scalable leadership
coaching technology, C4X, now makes
it possible for companies to manage
coaching programs end-to-end, track
the investment they make in leadership
coaching, and measure impact.
INNOVATION FUND TO FUEL
DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP
TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS

The DDI Innovation Fund is a strategic
corporate venture fund that will enable
DDI to invest in and partner with

cutting-edge companies with innovative
digital, mobile, and leadership-focused
capabilities that complement DDI's
existing suite of leadership selection,
development, succession planning, and
consulting solutions.
COACHING ASSESSMENT BUILDS
ENGAGEMENT

Progress Coaching has announced a
unique two-step coaching assessment
strategy. The Dual Coaching Assessment
uses a two-step strategy to better
understand
manager
expectations
as well as the goals of the employee.
Both sets of results are combined into
a customize coaching strategy by
speaking directly to what both parties
want.

HOW TO QUICKLY AND RELIABLY
QUANTIFY ANY SKILL

Degreed has enhanced its lifelong
learning platform with the launch of
Skill Review, a lightweight tool that uses
machine learning to quickly, yet reliably
measure a person's mastery of any skill
in 30 minutes or less. This, along with the
company's easy-to-use Skill Ratings and
robust, proprietary Skill Certification
technology, gives Degreed the most
complete set of solutions for quantifying
people's skill sets.
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