Vendors
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The Vendor Demo Test Drive
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I must say that Jim Holincheck wrote a quite persuasive piece a couple months ago on why vendor scripted demos will go away. In today’s environment of SaaS applications,…
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SuccessFactors: Success = Strategy + Execution
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I was looking at a SuccessFactor’s employee laptop the other day and she had a huge sticker on it with the words “Success = Strategy + Execution.” I could…
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Employee Engagement Surveys – Cost-cutting strategy when using a vendor
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Those of you in smaller organizations who have worked in HR/OD for even just a few years are sure to be familiar with…
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
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A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last…
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Makings of a Consultant
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I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter…
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HR Market Makers: Who Really Determines What You Buy
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So you think you choose what software you purchase? Well perhaps some of the time you do, but I’m starting to think that there are a couple dozen people…
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The HR Software Slump
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I was recently getting caught up on some blog reading and noticed Josh Bersin’s post on the Talent Management Software Slump. I’m not sure if I’m just a pessimist,…
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HR Technology Supply and Demand Curves
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I’ve written about it, and so have many others. The economy sucks. Thus, software sales in the HR technology space must also be down. In fact, I’m pretty sure…
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Innovating for Sales
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A while back I observed some talent software from a leading talent management vendor. They were excited to show me their innovations around presenting a “seating chart” that would…
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SuccessFactors Results
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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…
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Workday Update
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Being that Workday is announcing their Fall 2008 update today, I figured it was a s good a time as any to get this site back up and running…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Drafting
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There are actually quite a few HR bloggers who are also cyclists. Thomas Otter is a leading candidate, as are the other Systematic and Jeff Hunter. I’ll also join…
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Integrating Talent Applications (Suites)
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As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we…
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Degrees of SaaS
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I’ve been quite curious over the last year at the differing definitions of multi-tenancy that are given by multiple SaaS vendors. Admittedly not being a SaaS expert, or an…
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Engagement Over: Workstream-Empagio
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Why Workstream wanted to be tied to Empagio in the first place never quite made sense to me. When their merger was announced several months ago, everyone knew Workstream…
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Will the Real Oracle Fusion Middleware Please Stand Up?
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It’s not mystery that Oracle’s Fusion Middleware product was really only a half baked cobbling of old products when it was released a couple years ago. Much like Bush’s…
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Rethinking the Career Ladder
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Most career ladders go something like this • Associate 1 –> Associate 2 –> Professional 1 –> Professional 2 –> Senior Pro Ladder • Associate 1 –> Associate 2…
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The State of Kenexa
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Last month Kenexa invited a group of analysts and industry influencers to PA for a roundup and briefing of what they are up to. I’ll personally say that I’m…
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The Workday Promise (and Challenge)
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The fact that the market is excited about Workday would be an understatement. Hype around this company’s products and functionality appear to be racing quite past reality and approach…
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Taleo and Vurv: The State of the Talent Marketplace
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While it comes as no surprise that software vendor consolidation continutes to happen, It was not exactly what I was expecting when Taleo announced their acquisition of Vurv. In…