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priorities, and that the impact of learning is measureable in terms of business performance results. In our last Learning! 100 Award determinations, Aberdeen used the following three key performance criteria to determine "Best-in-Class" companies. Te top 20 percent of the companies are designated as "Best-in-Class," and the following shows the mean class performance in each of the areas: >> 92% of the organizational goals were achieved; >> 82% of the key roles have "ready and willing" successors identifed; and >> 74% of the employees exceeded their performance goals. Teir survey results showed that the frms enjoying Best-in-Class performance also shared several common characteristics: >> Te ability to align learning initiatives and performance goals to business objectives; >> A common language around competencies, by which talent is evaluated and developed; and >> An ongoing learning and performance management culture that is supported by appropriate technology. In addition to these common characteristics, Best-in-Class companies must: >> Defne the core organizational and job role competencies that are required to achieve top performance, and use them as a guideline for evaluating and developing talent; >> Use assessments and other tools to understand performance gaps and prescribed development plans; >> Embrace emerging technologies including mobile, social and video to enhance learning content; and >> Build a corporate culture of continuous learning that embraces both employees and customers. Overall, all of the Learning! 100 Award winners fell into Aberdeen Group's "Bestin-Class" or "Average" categories, with a majority of the top-tier of winners also ranking high in Aberdeen's top 20 percent of all companies, nationally. of the data collected in the Learning! 100 application process. Applicants can also come from our editorial staf, key vendors and partnering organizations like the Aberdeen Group, who must provide all of the information normally required of direct applicants. Tis data comes in across the spectrum of enterprises in both the private (corporate) and public (government agencies, nonprofts, military, and higher education). 78% reported having a chief talent, workforce, people, OD or learning ofcer on staf Below are the statistical data collected. Sixty percent of the successful applications came from the corporate enterprise sector, and 40% came from the public sectors. Sixty-seven percent were global organizations. The smallest company surveyed employed just five people, but the largest had 1.6 million. Average number of full-time employees, taking into consid- Learning! 100 Industry Breakout 40% Public Sector 60% Enterprise Public eration both private and public sector companies, was 28,935. Among the corporations, the average annual revenues were $2.2 billion with a 3.2 percent revenue growth. Tose companies reported $487.5 million in net income, a 14.5 percent increase over 2010. Te average training and development (T&D;) budget for a select number of public and private institutions is $297.3 million, according to a 2012 survey conducted by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines. Seventy-eight percent reported having a chief talent, workforce, people, OD or learning ofcer on staf, but only 44 percent of those reported directly to the CEO or president. Te good news is that 93 percent say that their learning program is directly linked to business strategy. WORK STYLES Seventy percent of the institutions said that some employees worked remotely. Of those institutions, 50 percent of the workforce worked remotely. Other interesting statistics: >> 50% of Learning! 100 have mobile learners; >> Of these, only 14% of their workforce is mobilized; >> Overall, 84% have an informal access system set up to reach subject matter experts (SMEs); >> 10% ofer just-in-time learning; and >> 5% source information ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Enterprise learning is fast saturating the top institutions. For instance, 89 percent of Enterprise Education Svcs 3% AEC 3% Hospitality Business Svcs Federal/St/ Local Govt Defense/Military 5% 7% Transportn/Logitc 25% 8% Telecom/TV/ISP 23% 8% Healthcare 10% Retail/WS/Dist STAGE TWO: THE LEARNING! 100 APPLICATION PROCESS Te next part of the process is the analysis Non Profit Education 25% 27% 20 22 24 26 28 12% Software/IT Svcs 12% Fin/Ins/Bkg/RE Manufacturing 15% 17% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14%16% 18% Government Elearning! December 2012 / January 2013 49