In case you missed it, HRO Today recently reported the following: “A former president of national accounts at competitor ADP, Jay C. Rising, 50, has been named president of Hewitt’s HRO business. Additionally, former acting president Julie Gordon has been named president of client and market leadership, a newly created position.” The announcement...
Top HRO Deals
Who’s paying attention? Did the value of HRO deals go down in 2006? Sure, there were much fewer $1B deals, but what was the cause of that? Were there overall fewer deals as well? I’m thinking that deals are starting to move into the mid market and we’re seeing less of the multi-line multi-process deals that make for huge sales dollars. Along with...
HRO Market Leaders
It’s interesting that only several vendors hold a large majority of the market share in the HRO world – almost an 80/20 rule. If you look at the top 3 (Hewitt, Accenture and ADP) you are probably getting close to 70% of the total HRO market share depending on how you measure it. This piece is not to make any judgements on the quality of any of these...
How Did They Get Here – Hewitt Associates
Article SeriesHow Did They Get Here – Hewitt AssociatesHow did they get here – ADPHow Did They Get Here – ExcellerateHRO The other day I was trying to remember what happened to a company in the benefits administration space I used to deal with quite regularly. Of course, as been happening with increasing regularity, it had been acquired some years...
Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?
Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results. It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them again. Rather, as the recognized leader in HRO, Hewitt can be viewed as the industry bellwether and can provide insight into the dynamics of the...
Hewitt’s Lessons Learned
From time to time companies exhibit moments of organizational maturity not often enough seen in the market. This week’s moment comes to us courtesy of Hewitt Associates’ Mike Wright, global HRO sales co-leader, during his presentation last month at the Conference Board’s 2006 Human Resource Outsourcing Conference in Chicago. Thank you (again) to...
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