City & Guilds, the UK’s premier brand in vocational
education, have bought Kineo, the UKs premier brand for LMS and content. First,
I have to say that I know both sides well. I’m on the Council of City &
Guilds, and I know the guys at Kineo very well, as I hired them all. They were my management team at Epic and left at around the time I left Epic,
when it was sold. They’re smart people who had a smart idea (rapid e-learning
and commercialise Moodle). It's great to see two UK organisations get serious about building something bigger in the vocational market.
What does it mean?
This is a huge boost for vocational learning in the UK, both in organisations and colleges, as
C&G now have a smart technology platform and production house for deliverables
straight to employers, including technology, consultancy and content. It has
also given C&G a much larger international profile and reach for their
qualifications and future deliverables. This is all about moving towards real
deliverables over and above accreditation. This is a 2+2=5 deal.
Meeting of minds
This is also a meeting of minds as they’ve been working
together for a while on real projects. City & Guilds have Kirstie Donnelly
and a good technical team that are keen to innovate. They’re already using
e-volve and e-logbooks as well as creating tablet content and m-learning apps.
Kineo are used to responsive deign across all platforms and can bring content to
life. Totara has proved itself as a LMS with teeth (I assume that City &
Guilds have also acquired Kineo’s minority share of Totara). For existing
customers it should be business as usual.
Conclusion
What’s important here is that C&G don’t crush the
entrepreneurial spirit of Kineo and that they embrace the technology and go on
to turn C&G into the organisation it could be. So well done Chris Jones, Kirstie
Donnelly and the team at C&G and well done to Steve Rayson and his team at Kineo.
See press release here.
4 comments:
any idea at what value the deal was done at?
What price did C&G pay?
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