ASTD Benchmarking Services

The State of the Industry Report is ASTD's annual review of trends in workplace learning and performance and includes data from ASTD BEST Awards Winners, ASTD Benchmarking Forum Members and other organizations from 2001 to date.

The State of the Industry Report can be purchased in PDF (Free to ASTD Members) or print versions from the ASTD Store.


The WLP Scorecard is an online real-time benchmarking and decision support tool that allows organizations to monitor and benchmark a broad range of learning function indicators. The WLP Scorecard includes tools your organization can use to customize reports with subsets of organizations and indicators, compare your learning function's alignment, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability with other organizations, and diagnose strengths and weaknesses in your organization's learning function. Visit wlpscorecard.astd.org to access the scorecard or register.

The ASTD Benchmarking Forum has been building its consortium of private and public sector organizations from around the world since 1991. Companies join the Forum to benchmark learning and performance improvement processes, practices, and outcomes against the accomplishments of Forum members and to engage a worldwide network of high-level professionals and organizations. Learn more...

Research Reports 

Latest Release: Transforming Learning With Web 2.0 Technologies

Transforming Learning With Web 2.0 Technologies describes how Web 2.0 technologies are being used for learning in today’s organizations, including a look at which technologies are gaining the most use in organizations and the risks and rewards of adopting Web 2.0 tools. This research study will help your company leverage the next generation of collaboration and communication tools for learning and performance improvement.

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ASTD Members receive select research reports as a member benefit. Learn more about ASTD Research Reports.

Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI)

The ASTD Learning Executives Confidence Index (LXCI) for Q1 2009 was 55.2 based on responses from 289 learning executives to an online invitation-only survey, demonstrating that collectively learning executives expect their learning functions to remain the same or marginally improve over the next six months. Read more...