So you think you choose what software you purchase?\u00a0 Well perhaps some of the time you do, but I\u2019m starting to think that there are a couple dozen people in the HR industry that really determine the fate of HR software companies and purchasing.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s face it, the list of short listed vendors you will use for talent management systems is probably fairly predictable.\u00a0 I could put out a list of companies, as well as half a dozen other well known bloggers and the list of top 5 would pretty much be the same.\u00a0 Your consultant that you choose will also have the same top 5.\u00a0 Industry guys like Kutik and Averbook would have the same list.\u00a0 So you go out there and you ask for input from consultants you know or who you have hired.\u00a0 You ask HR professionals who are peers about who you should short list.\u00a0 Should this list be the same every time?\u00a0 It usually is, and this is a bad thing.<\/p>\n
These days, more and more organizations are coming to me and asking to shortcut the RFP process.\u00a0 I realize that the RFP process is in fact expensive and in many ways broken.\u00a0 Organizations don\u2019t actually do an RFP anymore that is specific to their own requirements.\u00a0 They take a consultant\u2019s RFP and make a few small modifications.\u00a0 But at the end of the day it\u2019s still the consultant\u2019s RFP that is proven to downselect to a few known vendors.\u00a0 Or they will even ask these days to skip the whole \u201clong list\u201d process and ask the consultant to elect the top3-5 vendors for them.<\/p>\n
But corrupting this process, not only are you abdicating your choice, but you are allowing a few very influential people to pick the winners and losers in the HR market space.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, there are some really cool products out there that are not getting market share, but might get more if you actually looked at requirements rather than looked at leading vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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