Partnerships & Alliances – July/August 2014

The latest training industry mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and more.

  • Sales performance company Miller Heiman and its two divisions, Impact Learning Systems and Channel Enablers, acquired AchieveGlobal and Huthwaite and consolidated the companies to form one organization: MHI Global based in Littleton, CO. The companies will operate independently and keep their individual company names, while being led by a cohesive senior-executive team.
  • Development Dimensions International (DDI) and HireVue formed a joint partnership that will provide employers with enhanced candidate interviewing solutions. Users now can utilize DDI’s Targeted Selection systematic processes and skills for evaluating and integrating the candidate data gathered through the HireVue video interviewing system.
  • Vestrics and the ROI Institute announced plans to enter into a strategic alliance, with Vestrics offering its cloudbased workforce optimization software to ROI Institute practitioners.
  • Cengage Learning, a global educational content, technology, research, and services company, and Matchpoint Careers partnered to provide higher learning institutions with access to Matchpoint’s Career Positioning System (CPS), an online, personalized career guidance tool.
  • As a result of a recent agreement, 33 videos from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) are now part of EBSCO Information Services’ Leadership & Management Learning Center and Leadership & Management Video Collection.
  • Ernst & Young LLP has become a formal supporter of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance and will serve on the board overseeing the development and distribution of the Enterprise Engagement textbook and certification program.
Lorri Freifeld
Lorri Freifeld is the editor/publisher of Training magazine. She writes on a number of topics, including talent management, training technology, and leadership development. She spearheads two awards programs: the Training APEX Awards and Emerging Training Leaders. A writer/editor for the last 30 years, she has held editing positions at a variety of publications and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.