Cornerstone Acquires Talespin - AI Meets Metaverse in Corporate Learning - JOSH BERSIN

4/10/2024 Cornerstone Acquires Talespin: AI Meets Metaverse In Corporate Learning – JOSH BERSIN
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Industry Is Poised Cornerstone, the €0.93
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March 23, 2024Billion+ leader in corporate
learning platforms, is announcing
the acquisition of Talespin, one of
March 21, 2024the leaders in tools and content for
immersive learning.
 Cornerstone Acquires Talespin: AI
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understanding has led to the
development
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2024 plays, war games, and hundreds of

other interactive learning
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experiences.
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(and Payroll)
April 4, 2024 learning” experience I’ve had in my
February 28, 2024
life started with some memorable
 The Labor Market Has Totally
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taught me to “never let this happen
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again.”
In corporate
winning) Approach To Skills training this is
March 25, 2024difficult. Companies like Shell and
AT&T spend tens of millions of
dollars on simulators, games, and
interactive experiences to teach
March 23, 2024
people things like oil drilling
 practices,
What The World telephone
Happiness Report system repair,
March 21, 2024and even things like how to safely
enter a manhole without falling or
 Cornerstone damaging
Acquires Talespin: AI
equipment. Even
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companies like Starbucks, Disney,
March
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and Walmart need these
 solutions:
 nobody
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2024 The problem, of course, is that
 Will Chatbotsbuilding these
Take Over experiences is
HR Tech?
(and Payroll) difficult. Immersive Learning,
April 4, 2024
pioneered by companies like
February 28, 2024

Talespin and STRIVR, have built
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February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024easy. So organizations like
Walmart, Bank of America,
Verizon, Sony, Accenture, MGM
Resorts, and even Sprouts Stores
March 25, 2024
use these platforms. The value is
 The €315.18 high:
BillionaCorporate
PwC study found that
Learning
employees who learn through VR
March 23, 2024are almost 300% more confident

March 21, 2024about their skills than those who
learn in other ways.
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These
Meets Metaverse top vendors,
In Corporate Talespin and
Learning
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How To Create Talent Density
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Acquire HiredScore, A company,
Potential Shakeup In HR a
offering Technology
wide range of tools and
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March 1, ARTICLES
2024 content to help companies build
 Will Chatbotsimmersive experiences
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(and Payroll) applications.
April 4, 2024
February 28, 2024
Talespin in particular offers the
 following
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February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024 Emotionally engaging, voice-
driven learning experiences:
winning) Approach Users can engage in lessons and
To Skills
March 25, 2024 scenarios that are designed to
be emotionally engaging, with
voice-driven interactions
Intuitive UX/UI for creating
March 23, 2024
story-based learning narratives:
 What The World The platform
Happiness provides an
Report
March 21, 2024 intuitive interface for creating
and refining story-based
 Cornerstone Acquires Talespin:
learning AI
narratives with
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advanced logic
What
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No animation or coding

 experience
How To Create Talent Density required: Users can
create
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March 10, 2024 complex conversational
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 simulations
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Talent Density
for animation or coding skills
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March 1, ARTICLES
2024
characters, voices, gestures, and
 environments:
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(and Payroll) access to a wide range of virtual
April 4, 2024
February 28, 2024 elements to enhance the
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February 23, 2024 they develop
March 31, 2024
Content deployable via the

Talespin App: Users can access
How To Take A Pragmatic (and
winning) Approach all available immersive learning
To Skills
March 25, 2024 content through the Talespin
App on various devices,
including VR headsets like
Oculus Quest, Vision Pro, and
March 23, 2024
HTC Vive, as well as desktop
 What The World application
Happiness Report
March 21, 2024 CoPilot Designer: This no-code
authoring tool allows authors to
 Cornerstone Acquires
createTalespin:
dynamic AI conversational
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learning experiences where
March
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users can practice role
 play. It
 offers
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Density
virtual
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 emotional
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Talent Density
assembling complex narratives
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March 1, ARTICLES
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 Will ChatbotsWhile Talespin

Take Over has been a smaller
HR Tech?
player,
Paradox Sets The Pace. their impact on the market
(and Payroll)
April 4, 2024 could now be huge. With Talespin
February 28, 2024
you can use GenAI to build
character-based content in minutes
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024to hours, instead of days to weeks.
Over time the Generative tools are
 How To Takegetting
A Pragmatic (and
better, enabling companies
to build lifelike character-based
March 25, 2024
learning at scale. (Other vendors in
 The €315.18 this space
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March 23, 2024
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 What The World Happiness
having a nice Report
character and
March 21, 2024presence to interact with. Talespin’s
latest development tools let you
 Cornerstone create
Acquires Talespin: AIthat have almost
characters
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unlimited scenarios for response,
What
2024
creating an environment
 that feels
 like
How To Create a real
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Density
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 lets Talespin
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March 1, ARTICLES
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ethical situations, and more.
(and Payroll) What Does This Mean For
April 4, 2024
Cornerstone?
February 28, 2024

 The big
Irresistible 2024: Joinquestion is this: in the new
Us This May!
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February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024
“Autonomous Learning Platforms,”
 How To Takedoes this bring
A Pragmatic (andCornerstone into a
leading position?
March 25, 2024
Well remember this: today
Cornerstone is a private-equity
owned company primarily
March 23, 2024
operating as a profit engine. The
 company
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Happiness acquired most of the
March 21, 2024legacy LMS vendors (SumTotal,
Saba, EdCast) TM vendors
 Cornerstone (Halogen,
Acquires Talespin:
Lumesse)AI and content
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provider Grovo. And along the way
March
What19,The
2024
these companies each acquired

 other
How To Create companies,
Talent Density so there are more
than 20+
PREVIOUS
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STORY
 within
How To Create the Cornerstone
Talent Density business.
Potential Shakeup In HR
Since Technology went private in
Cornerstone
RECENT
March 1, ARTICLES
2024 2021 the company has continued to
 Will Chatbotsgrow
Take its revenue
Over (over €0.93
HR Tech?
(and Payroll) billion) and is probably one of the
April 4, 2024
more profitable companies in HR
February 28, 2024

Tech. So this is a large company
Changed: Are Youwith a massive
Really Ready? sales, marketing,
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024and engineering team (7,000
customers, more than 140 million
end-users). So as a market maker,
Cornerstone has relationships with
March 25, 2024
most large companies around the
 The €315.18 world.
Billion Corporate Learning
March 23, 2024However as AI and VR has
matured, the market has become
competitive. Fast-growing vendors
March 21, 2024like Docebo, Sana Labs, 360
Learning, SAP Litmos, Adobe,
 Cornerstone Learnupon,
Acquires Talespin:
FuseAIUniversal,
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Uplimit, and many others are
What
2024
winning business. These
 newer
 vendors
How To Create may not have the industry
Talent Density
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 systems
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and often AI-enabled. So
RECENT Cornerstone, as a growth-oriented
March 1, ARTICLES
2024
business, wants to stay ahead.
(and Payroll) They’ve done this in three big ways:
April 4, 2024
first by building a skills system
February 28, 2024

(they call it their Skills Fabric) that
Changed: Are YouletsReally
companies
Ready? create a skills
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024taxonomy, assess skills, and use
skills-based tools for learning
recommendations, performance
and talent management, and career
March 25, 2024
management. This is a very
 The €315.18 crowded market
Billion Corporate but for
Learning
Cornerstone clients these tools add
March 23, 2024a lot of value.

March 21, 2024Second, Cornerstone has built out a
significant content business. The
 Cornerstone Grovo
Acquires Talespin: AIbrought a
acquisition
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content development team along
What
2024
with development tools,courses
 and
How To Create customers,
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mergedSTORY
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 content
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March 1, ARTICLES
2024
€92.70M of top line business. That
 EOR Providermakes Cornerstone
Deel Expands one of the top
Into HCM
(and Payroll) 10 content companies in the
April 4, 2024
February 28, 2024
market.
Changed: Are YouThird,
ReallyCornerstone
Ready? is now focusing
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024on VR and AI. As I discussed in my
podcast with Joel Hellermark from
Sana, AI is going to flip L&D on its
head. For the first time in 20+ years
March 25, 2024
we now have corporate learning
 The €315.18 platforms that can
Billion Corporate ingest content,
Learning
generate instructional programs,
March 23, 2024and personalize experiences for
every employee in the company.

March 21, 2024While Cornerstone has not
introduced anything as
 Cornerstone comprehensive
Acquires Talespin:as
AI Sana, Uplimit,
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Docebo, Arist and the others, the
What
2024
Talespin acquisition gets
 us close.
And there’s more. Analysts (not
PREVIOUS STORY
March 10, 2024
me) estimate the VR market at
 Workday To €3.71
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HiredScore, A to grow at
Potential Shakeup
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over the next five years
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 Will Chatbotsopportunity.
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Tech?Talespin
(and Payroll) integrated into Cornerstone’s
April 4, 2024
platform the company can become
February 28, 2024

a leading end-to-end provider in
Changed: Are YouthisReally
space.Ready?
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024
I talked with a few clients about this
 How To Takeand the opportunity
A Pragmatic (and is real.
winning) Approach To Skills for example, uses
Accenture,
March 25, 2024Talespin for its foundational
management coaching program

because
Industry Is Poised it delivers real-world
For Disruption
March 23, 2024experiences to young leaders. And
the characters and personalities of
the agents can be customized and
March 21, 2024tuned for different audiences. As
the designers of the offering told
 Cornerstone me,
Acquires Talespin:
Talespin letsAIlearning
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professionals use Dall-E or
What
2024
Midjourney to build characters
 and
 then
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development
PREVIOUS
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 simulations
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Talent Density
softskills training.
RECENT
March 1, ARTICLES
2024 And there’s much more to come.
 Will ChatbotsPlatforms
Take Over like Talespin (and the
HR Tech?
(and Payroll) others I mention above) can
April 4, 2024
personalize the experience to each
February 28, 2024

employee, dynamically create
Changed: Are Youassessments based on your activity,
Really Ready?
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024and can provide almost infinite
branching as you converse with a
virtual character. Given the rapid
evolution of AI, this is going to get
March 25, 2024
better in short time.
Bottom
Industry Is Poised Line: Huge
For Disruption Potential
March 23, 2024Growth

March 21, 2024While VR training has been around
for a while, most companies don’t
 Cornerstone know
Acquires Talespin:
much aboutAI it. With
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Cornerstone’s sales muscle and all
March
What19,The
2024
the new buzz about Apple
 and
 Meta’s
How To Create Talentheadsets,
Density this growth curve
will accelerate.
PREVIOUS
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 for this
How To Create are Density
Talent everywhere: from
operational training to leadership
RECENT scenarios to safety and even first-
March 1, ARTICLES
2024
person shooter safety. There’s
 EOR Providernothing like aInto
Deel Expands real-world
HCM scenario
(and Payroll) to teach you something you don’t
April 4, 2024
February 28, 2024
really understand.
Changed: Are YouCan Cornerstone
Really Ready? get focused and
February 23, 2024
March 31, 2024rapidly grow this market? That
would be my only question: the
company has a lot going on so let’s
hope Talespin stays in tact and we
March 25, 2024
see some amazing solutions to
 The €315.18 come. AI and VR
Billion Corporate is clearly the
Learning
future of corporate learning.
March 23, 2024
Additional Information
March 21, 2024Autonomous Corporate Learning
Platforms: Arriving Now, Powered
 Cornerstone by
Acquires
AI Talespin: AI
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Industry Is Poised For Disruption

Irresistible Conference  The Labor Market Has Totally

 How To Take A Pragmatic (and

 The €315.18 Billion Corporate Learning

JOSH BERSIN Industry Is Poised

 What The World Happiness Report

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 The Labor Marketimmersive

 Will ChatbotsWhile Talespin

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 What The World Happiness Report

every employee in the company.

management coaching program

 What The World Happiness Report

 Will Chatbots Take Over HR Tech?

 The Labor Market Has Totally

 How To Take A Pragmatic (and

 The €315.18 Billion Corporate Learning

 Will Chatbots Take Over HR Tech?

 How To Take A Pragmatic (and

 The €315.18 Billion Corporate Learning

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