Cornerstone Launches Cornerstone Xplor to Enable “Back to Human” Strategies for Today’s Modern Business Leaders

SINGAPORE and HONG KONG – Media OutReach – 3 November
2021 – Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.,
a leader in adaptive HR solutions, today announced the release of its latest
innovation, Cornerstone Xplor. A core component of the company’s vision for a
new system of work,
Cornerstone Xplor is a holistic people growth experience that delivers a fully
integrated and hyper-personalized journey of learning, skill development,
growth and career mobility for every person. Powered by Cornerstone’s deep
learning and talent capabilities, its innovative Cornerstone Skills Graph,
fresh and auto-curated content delivery and self-learning AI, the Cornerstone
Xplor experience enables modern talent leaders to meet their people where they
are with a highly individualized and fully connected growth experience, at
scale. 

According to a recent
McKinsey report, HR leaders have found themselves on a relentless treadmill
to reduce costs, optimize processes and apply new technologies to their
existing HR models. But the COVID-19 pandemic—which accelerated employee
demands to meet physical and mental health needs and intensified concerns about
a company’s societal impact—shed light on how previous priorities have caused
HR to lose its vital human element. Many CHROs are eager to shift to a “back to
human” model that re-focuses on people and addresses the employee experience in
a more targeted, dynamic way. 

“Companies are in a mad scramble to train, reskill, and
redeploy workers around the world, yet they have to integrate dozens of systems
to do this well,” said Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst and CEO of The Josh
Bersin Company. “Cornerstone Xplor has the potential to transform the HR Tech
Market by combining the features of learning experience platforms, talent
marketplace, career pathways, and advanced skills technology into one
integrated system.”

Unlike traditional Learning Experience Platforms (LXP), or
other similar applications designed to deliver various elements of the people
growth journey in separate applications, Cornerstone Xplor is the first to
bring every element of people growth into one single destination — and to do so
by harnessing the power of the deep talent management capabilities,
workflows, AI data and intelligence of Cornerstone’s core. Through this
innovation, talent leaders can deliver a modern, engaging and individual
experience to their people, while ensuring the experience leverages the
investments they’ve already made and is fully aligned to their organizational
goals, including:  

End-to-End Skills Alignment:
With Cornerstone Xplor, people can select which skills they have, which they’d
like to work on and even ones they’d like to ignore. That information is
used to intelligently analyze and suggest new learning opportunities and the
most relevant content, connect individuals with mentors and experts, engage
them in communities of practice, and auto-generate potential career paths
available within the organization. Once existing skills are identified and new
skills are mastered, talent leaders can easily build and visualize skill pools,
identify their experts and offer them new opportunities to grow in a way that
both supports organizational transformation and removes implicit bias
from those decisions.  

Scalable Self-Driven
Development: Cornerstone Xplor delivers highly individualized and
“self-driving” experiences for every user because it’s essentially powered by a
person’s whole self: interests, preferences, behaviors, skills, work
experiences and goals. With the power of AI, Cornerstone Xplor leverages
people, content and skills data to auto-generate personalized learning and
skill paths, deliver the most relevant, high-impact learning content in the
moment of need and suggest new connections, mentors and career journeys along
the way. This enables each user to direct their own development journey and
enables talent leaders to deliver personalized, aligned and engaging learning
experiences at scale – without all the heavy lifting. 

Talent Marketplace:
Internal mobility exists at the intersection of experiences and skills, putting
Cornerstone Xplor in a unique position to deliver on the promise of a modern
talent marketplace. Cornerstone Xplor not only creates a skills-forward
development experience for people, but enables people to match and connect
those skills to potential new career paths and an auto-matched ”marketplace” of
mentors, jobs, gigs and projects. This enables every person to proactively
pursue a path that accelerates their own growth aspirations, while helping
organizations to unlock the often-hidden expertise and skills inside their
organization and reduce the need to constantly search for external talent. Long
term plans for Cornerstone Xplor include allowing people to promote their
skills and aspirations and enabling talent leaders to manage the search,
hiring, onboarding and movement of people from role to role.

“Our customers are looking to Cornerstone to help them
create a more human approach to their people experience. At the same time, they
need to ensure their businesses are set up for transformation and for the
skills and careers of tomorrow,” said Phil Saunders, CEO of Cornerstone. “Our
vision for a new system of work is designed to help our customers and their
people meet this evolving nature of work, together. Cornerstone Xplor is a key
part of that vision. People can create their own growth experience that’s
uniquely personal, and talent leaders can cultivate a workforce of connected,
thriving people who are aligned in purpose and success.”

Early Market Feedback

Cornerstone launched the Cornerstone Xplor Early Adopter
program in Summer 2021 and is working closely with customers and industry
analysts to expand on features and functionality. Feedback from this program,
as well as ongoing customer insights, will inform the long-term innovation
strategy for the product. Early comments include:

• “Employee experience has been
  a big focus for most organizations for some time, but the pandemic and its
  resulting social, cultural and economic consequences have made it business
  critical,” said David Wilson, CEO, Fosway Group. “In a hybrid workplace, organizations
  need to find new strategies to engage and connect employees to the work they
  are doing, as well as how they can grow and develop. A solution like
  Cornerstone Xplor can help organizations create a more connected experience for
  every employee, as well as accelerating their opportunities to grow and develop
  with a shared view of success.”
• “It is critically important
  for individuals to navigate their own learning and development, and the
  organizations they work for need to create a personalized self-driven learning
  and growth experience that gives people the tools and inspiration to take the
  reins,” said Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and Principal HCM
  Analyst, Brandon Hall Group. “With Cornerstone Xplor, organizations will be
  able to empower their people to be the master of their own destiny, resulting
  in a greater level of commitment and more meaningful milestones achieved for
  all.” 
• “At Deutsche Post DHL we want
  to make it easy for every employee to be in control of their career,” said Meredith
  Wellard, VP Group Learning Talent and Platforms at Deutsche Post DHL. “We plan
  to do this by ensuring the experience linked to skills development is
  delightful, and by creating greater transparency of current and recommended
  skills aligned with each person’s career goals and unique career path. We have
  made great progress developing this with the help of the Cornerstone Skills
  Graph technology over the past year, and we look forward to implementing
  Cornerstone Xplor to make the experience even more seamless and easy for our
  people. We are excited about how aligned this solution is with our business
  goals.”
• “We want to provide the best experience
  for our employees by making it simple and easy for them to gain the knowledge
  they need for the role they have and the roles they want at Fossil Group in the
  future,” James Webb, VP, Global People Development, Engagement and
  Communications, Fossil Group. “Cornerstone, Xplor will create a real
  opportunity to enable easy and relevant learning, matched with personalized
  career mapping, that better aligns with how our people think about their own
  development and their long-term career aspirations at Fossil Group.”

Additional Information

Cornerstone Xplor is now available to all new and existing
Cornerstone customers. New and existing Saba Software customers will be able to
use the new product by the end of 2021. 

The company will be sharing more about Cornerstone Xplor
during its annual customer and partner event, Cornerstone Convergence from Nov.
16-17, 2021. To join the complementary virtual event, register here: https://www.cornerstoneconvergence.com/