What the heck is Talent 2.0?  Well first of all, it’s not here yet.  Second of all, it probably makes more sense to define Talent 1.0 before I can theorize on Talent 2.0.  Talent Management 1.0 is simply what we have today.  It’s the thought that old school performance management, compensation administration, and succession planning can be automated...

I was chatting with a good friend of mine whose company does work with organizations to analyze the value of ongoing IP and R&D.  Ardent Research looks at current R&D and patent activity, surveys progress along that research, competitiveness against similar projects at other companies, and unique thought leadership that might give Ardent’s clients and...

The Wall Street Journal had a wonderful article a couple months ago arguing why the performance review is not advantageously contributing to overall productivity for a number of various reasons.  I have argued on this blog many times before that performance is not useful and either needs to be completely overhauled and reimagined from the ground up, or gotten...

It will be interesting to see what the SuccessFactors executives say on their 4th quarter performance results, and even more so for their projections for 2009. Given that they just did an across the board layoff1 it would be hard for them to say that they are still projecting strong growth.  This goes for pretty much all of the talent management vendors. I’m...

Article SeriesHR Metrics: Offer Accept RateHR Metrics: Quality of HireHR Metrics: Competency fill ratesHR Metrics: External recruitment rateHR Metrics: Contractor fill ratesHR Metrics: Turnover RateHR Metrics: Resignation rateHR Metrics: Dismissal rate By now, many of our organizations have competency assignments for each candidate and employee within...

Article SeriesHR Metrics: Offer Accept RateHR Metrics: Quality of HireHR Metrics: Competency fill ratesHR Metrics: External recruitment rateHR Metrics: Contractor fill ratesHR Metrics: Turnover RateHR Metrics: Resignation rateHR Metrics: Dismissal rate All too often, we talk about the quality of hire measured by a new employee’s first performance...