{"id":1440,"date":"2010-08-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:54:59","slug":"the-vendor-space-is-lagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"What’s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world.\u00a0 After all, what would we have done if SoftScape had not coined the term \u201cTalent Management\u201d?\u00a0 (I\u2019m pretty sure it was them, but I\u2019m not 100% sure, so if I\u2019m wrong, don\u2019t crucify me please)\u00a0 Talent Management gave HR a completely new lease on life, helped us get the attention of executives, and got many of us the proverbial \u201cseat at the table”.\u201d\u00a0 TM provided us a way manage our Human Resources, whereas before we were just another resource.<\/p>\n

The SaaS vendor space provided us with dashboards while the rest of the organization was implementing them, but HR didn\u2019t have the budgets or the technical capability.\u00a0 We got analytics for cheap from vendors when our organizations didn\u2019t seem to see the value of a $MM implementation for HR.<\/p>\n

But lately, it feels like we\u2019ve taken hold of all the new technologies and the opportunities it brought us and we are not trying to push our vendors faster and further rather than being tugged along.\u00a0 While vendors consolidate and focus on platform integration, we\u2019ve all moved on to thinking about long term talent management that goes beyond the processes of today and looks at the planning for 2 and 3 years from now.\u00a0 We\u2019re wanting to understand workforce planning and implement technologies to help us with it.\u00a0 We want to understand internal mobility and get a handle on how increasing mobility engages, develops and retains our employee base.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not really all the vendor\u2019s fault.\u00a0 Sure, the vendors (some of them anyway) tell us they have some functionality, or that it\u2019s on the way, but we in HR are certainly now pushing rather than pulling.\u00a0 The problem for the vendors is that most of the new work is pure analytics and decision support.\u00a0 To do workforce planning, we need to be able to project out where our businesses are growing and what skill-sets we will need a few years down the road.\u00a0 Often, HR does not yet have this level of visibility in the organization.\u00a0 Sometimes, the business as a while does not have the ability to know what the future brings in highly project and contract based businesses.\u00a0 Others of us have more stable sales and business cycles that can be predictable.<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019ve gone forward with our thinking, but both the HR and Vendor capabilities are lagging, and we have come to count on the vendor space to provide us a solution for our problems.\u00a0 Unlike with Talent Management where many of us didn\u2019t even know we needed it, now we know we have an itch to scratch \u2013 and we are eagerly awaiting a stick to scratch it with.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it will be great\u2026\u00a0 (just hurry up already)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world.\u00a0 After all, what would we have done if…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,44,49,20,3],"tags":[193,52,192,174,444,440],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategies","category-industry-news","category-innovation","category-talent","category-talent-management","category-vendors","tag-functionality","tag-internal-mobility","tag-requirements","tag-saas","tag-talent-management","tag-workforce-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}