Today’s learning organizations continue to seek more effective and efficient ways to design, deliver and track training with tight budgets, and often outsource core functions and projects. This Executive Research Brief is a condensed study highlighting the findings from 351 organizations concerning their practices surrounding learning and development outsourcing. This research shows that outsourcing remains a key component of a majority of organizations’ learning strategies.

This report also explores internal training activities inside organizations to identify the most critical functions and compare them with outsourced activities. If organizations are outsourcing their most critical learning and development functions, it becomes clear why more organizations are planning to outsource, and why those that do will spend about the same or more on outsourced activities.

The learning and development outsourcing themes addressed in this Executive Research Brief are:
•    What gets outsourced.
•    Why outsource?
•    Choosing an outsourcing provider.
•    Spending.