Our thanks go to a record 600 organisations who contributed to the 2011 Toward Maturity Benchmark Study - a 50% increase in the number of 2010 participants.

To date 1800 organisations have participated in the Towards Maturity Benchmark since it began and during June and July 2011 a record 600 organisations took part investing over 400 hours in the process.

Here is just some of the feedback we've had from the participants as they completed their 2011 review-

• Thank you for the great ideas I've gathered while filling up this survey.
• It was a good time for reflection. Good Work and we wish you success for this initiative, Thanks
• Keep up the good work. Detailed questions, but realistic approach. Thank you !
• Thanks -  looking forward to the results being shared, learning from this and using to promote within the organisation
• We thought the survey was really good and gave us the opportunity to reflect on things that we could use going forward.
• Great thought provoking questions, look forward to seeing the results!
• Can't wait to see the results - looking forward to being able to plan what and how we can improve.
• This has really helped focus on some areas and relationships we need to improve on if we are to successfully progress learning technologies.
• Once again a lengthy study, that I trust will prove interesting in terms of insights. This remains one of the best studies of the UK market and specifically e-Learning. I am still waiting for when learning through technology becomes the dominant modality. I await your report with great interest. Many thanks
• Great initiatives - industry benchmarks would be very useful
• Cant wait to see how bad we are!
• This has been a very interesting process to go through and has given me some ideas for the future however, as always, working in a charity sometimes really impacts on what can realistically be achieved
• Excellent survey - thank you very much indeed!
• Thank you - I've done this a couple of times now - and it keeps me sharp
• I'm exhausted :-)

We've also had constructive feedback on some of the questions and style which we will be acting on as we continually review the benchmark process.

Early results will be available in the middle of September and the  2011 report will be released on the 10th of November - find out more . 

Get involved in the conversation 

Benchmarking is a dynamic process - it's not just about research but it is about action . If this is something you are interested in, then please join our LinkedIn group New Learning Benchmarks - This group is for people wanting to fast track the results of innovative workplace learning & development through benchmarking. All of our previous and current benchmark reports will be posted plus latest news and comment.

A big thank you to our  Supporters and Ambassadors

This benchmarking process has been made freely available to you thanks to the support of our ambassadors who share our passion for ensuring that great independent research is freely available to all -we would like to encourage you to find out more about them!

Founding Ambassadors for the 2011 report:

• Brightwave
• Epic
• GlobalEnglish
• Line Communications
• LM Matters
• Plateau Systems
• Redtray
• The Charity Learning Consortiu

Ambassadors:

• CERTPOINT Systems
• digital publishing
• Element K
• Fusion-Universal
• Information Transfer
• Learndirect
• Toolwire

A big thank you also  to our supporters who have helped to raise awareness and keep the study independent.

IT'S NOT TO LATE TO BENCHMARK-You can still find out your personal benchmark

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