Let’s start with a number that should feel like a win: $31.9 billion. That’s what U.S. manufacturers spent on training and upskilling in 2026, up 22% from $26.2 billion in 2019. If you run L&D for a plant, that’s the budget line you’d have fought for a decade ago. So here’s the question nobody’s asking […]

There are hundreds of learning management systems in 2026, and every single one claims to be the best, the smartest, the most AI-powered. A lot of that shopping is either happening for the first time or is driven by a replacement: low adoption, reporting nobody trusted, a bill that kept growing long after the contract […]

Let me tell you about the most useless report I ever made. A few years ago I built what I thought was a masterpiece. Charts. Percentages. Satisfaction scores. Attendance by region. I walked into the quarterly review, put up a 94% completion rate and a 4.8 out of 5 satisfaction score on our new onboarding […]