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Talent

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    The Future of Talent

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    Forget about talent management. What we need is talent development. Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group and The Human Capitalist wrote about emerging talent management software trends a few weeks ago. As part of those trends, a Yankee Group survey indicated that the growth of that HR technology industry segment would double by 2009. ((The…

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    Is Talent Management Strategic?

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    Talent Management in and of itself is not a strategic function. Similar to core HR practices, the actual task and process isn’t strategic. One should be especially careful with Talent Management Systems (TMS). No system (TMS, HRMS, or anything else) can make you and your organization strategic. However, the philosophy you develop around the task…

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    Talent Management System Vendor List

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    Stumbled across one of the longest lists of talent management vendors I’ve seen. To be honest, I don’t know many of these. As many of you know, I don’t consider recruiting only solutions to be talent management (TMS), but a sub-class of talent acquisition (TAS). Anyway, the TAS vendors are included in the list.

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    Social Networks in HRIT

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    Are we all really six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon?  Yes Are there other uses of social networking other than Kevin Bacon?  Yes Can HRIT employ social networks into their strategy?  No Social networks are an informal version of the business networking that many of us do, which in turn is a less formal…

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    Online Dating Applied to HR Technology

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    Sometimes there’s a post so thought provoking it just begs to be blogged: In my last post I wrote that online dating services would show us where online recruiting was headed. I believe this to be the case because they are both expressions of the same basic problem: how do I find a person who…

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    HR Technology Functional Utilization

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    Looking at CedarCrestone (of Cedar Group fame) and their survey of HCM applications, it’s interesting to see the trends of what everyone is using, what they will be using, and how these trends debunk current myths and assumptions we (or I) may have about the marketplace. First, it’s incredibly surprising to me that training enrollment…

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    Leadership, Brand, and Engaging Employees

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    Leadership creates both the external product brand, and the internal employer brand. All three of these elements then go on to affect employee engagement, which continues to affect the external product brand. The focus and attention of the employee on the quality of their work directly impacts the customer experience with their product. As we…

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    Authoria Introduces Recruiting

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    Authoria Recruiting is big news simply because it expands the reach of the talent management suite. Most vendors claiming to be TMS have either been talent acquisition without the rest, or talent management without the aquisition. Recruitmax was the notable exception for a long time, but with Kenexa buying WebHire, Authoria releasing Authoria Recruiting, Taleo…

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    Hot HR Issues – Part 2

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    The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of CA’s website an a comment here)) ((The Conference Board of Canada, August 2004. “Hot HR…

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    Hot HR Issues – Part 1

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    The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of CA’s website an a comment here)) ((The Conference Board of Canada, August 2004. “Hot HR…

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    Responsibility – Part 2

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    How does your HR organization take responsibility for nurturing your high potentials? Launch a formal, high-level succession-planning conference for senior executives facilitated by corporate HR and outside experts; outline the leadership development process; and cascade it through the company. Create leadership development programs that fill holes in your company’s talent portfolio to ensure a deep…

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    Gautam Ghosh – The new HR professional?

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    Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I’ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I’m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR can influence a company’s bottom line, especially in the knowledge economy, where talent is a…

  • Another Doomsday Prediction for Talent

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    It’s possible that I’ve been drilling this topic too much for too long, but it seems the market is really starting to take notice. Perhaps that means it’s time for me to start talking about something else. Here’s a last shot and some summary data of what the talent brain drain means. This is from…

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    Workstream Product Enhancements

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    The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off the top of my head. Vendors need to develop not just a single product suite,…

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    Offshoring Not a Cause of Job Loss

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    2.4% of U.S. jobs have been lost to outsourcing and offshoring since 2003. That’s the bad news. The good news is that if you trend all job gains and losses due to outsourcing and offshorig (trade) over time, 2.4% is totally insignificant. ((Groshen, Erica L. , Hobijn, Bart , and McConnell, Margaret M., August 2005.…

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    Taleo Version 7 – updates to my scorecard

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    With Taleo’s next release, they regain my number one spot for Talent Acquisition vendors.  While they’ve always been at or near the top of my list, Taleo has been slipping for a few years due to their inability to execute on a web services strategy.  Basically they haven’t opened up their API’s to allow better…

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    Watson Wyatt – 2005 HCI study

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    Watson Wyatt – Insider again pushes out a nice article tying together the correlation between effective HR program design and financial performance. First off, here’s a nice diagram of what we’ve beem blogging about for a while: Retrieved from http://www.watsonwyatt.com on February 20, 2006.

  • What’s wrong with Talent Management – Conclusion

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    Over the last few days I’ve talked about various components of talent management. While I know talent is the hot theory these days, it’s simply a fusion of old ideas that haven’t been modified to fit a more strategic HR. Simply put, we need to do more. Here are my recommendations: We need to find…

  • What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 3

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    I’m trying to figure out how I chose succession and workforce planning as “what’s right with talent management.” (if you read to the end, you’ll find out why the post is named “what’s wrong”) I’m actually not all that excited about what we’re doing here, but at least I think we’re on the right track.…

  • What’s Wrong with Talent Management – Replys

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    Nobody ever said I was un-opinionated. To those who may think I’m just an instigator, I actually do believe in what I’ve written and think that (1) performance is broken in 99.9% of the organizations out there, (2) HR does not do a good job in integrating our talent management capabilities to the rest of…