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24% -- profit margin differential for companies investing in employee development (2026)
Companies investing in employee development see a 24% higher profit margin according to the Association for Talent Development.
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2026
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nicolaziady.com
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https://nicolaziady.com/why-does-more-martech-spend-produce-less-roi-the-answer-starts-with-your-peo… ↗
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You're About to Renew Tech You're Under-using. Stop. - Nicola Ziady
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BLUF :: Marketing teams spend 25% of their budget on technology but use just 33% of its capabilities. Zero of 50 Fortune 500 CMOs could explain why. The bottleneck isn’t the platform – it’s the person behind it. Here’s the data an…
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companies investing in employee development: 24% profit margin differential. Source: nicolaziady.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/development-profit-margin-24
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