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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…