Business Trends
Posted on February 3rd, 2012.
The LMS market remains very hot, and so does Facebook (below). Comments on both.
This week Peoplefluent (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria and Peopleclick) announced the acquisition of Strategia, a small but very successful enterprise learning management systems company. Strategia was a Canadian enterprise LMS company with … Read more»
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Posted on January 30th, 2012.
The concept of a job, as we know it, is starting to go away.
Over the last year I’ve been speaking with many corporate business and human resource leaders and hearing a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign organizations so we can learn faster, communicate better, … Read more»
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Posted on January 22nd, 2012.
Talent management makes money.
If you are trying to build a business case for a corporate talent management program, here is some astounding data:
Of the 700+ organizations we studied in 2010 and 2011, only 7% told us that they have a “strategic talent management” program. We defined talent management in four levels of … Read more»
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Posted on November 23rd, 2011.
This week I had the opportunity to speak about next-generation talent management at two events in Stockholm. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the big talent challenges facing global businesses in the Nordic countries.
The Nordics are home to some of the world’s greatest businesses. We had Ericsson, Electrolux, Logica, A.P. Moeller … Read more»
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Posted on November 18th, 2011.
Today we released our first ever Talent Acquisition Factbook®, a comprehensive study of trends, benchmarks, and spending data in the US (and UK) recruiting market. It points out the tectonic shifts taking place in recruiting right now, as the staffing industry shifts steadily toward the use of social networking, employment branding, and a variety … Read more»
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Posted on October 18th, 2011.
While you may not be a baseball fan, you have to admit that this movie (and book) is really all about Human Resources. Billy Beane learned that by using data shrewdly he could build a high-performing team at a fraction the cost of his competitors. Isn’t this what strategic HR is all about?
I’ve had … Read more»
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Posted on September 3rd, 2011.
This labor day weekend we learned that the US economy created no new jobs in August, resulting in a 2.2% drop in the stock market on Friday.
After looking at the data in historic perspective, I want to point out some of the dynamics taking place and give you a slightly more positive perspective.
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Posted on August 26th, 2011.
This week’s announcement of Steve Jobs’ succession to Chairman puts the topic of success management back on the front page. When such a strong leader steps aside, how does Apple maintain its admired culture of innovation, execution, and business growth? There is more here than turning over the reigns to Tim Cook: Apple has a … Read more»
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Posted on August 19th, 2011.
We just completed our latest TalentWatch research (our semi-annual report on business and talent trends) and as most HR and business leaders know, we are in a very strange talent environment. One one hand we have a US unemployment rate over 9% and Europe is still in early recovery. On the other hand, businesses tell … Read more»
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Posted on April 30th, 2011.
We just finished a thrilling week in Florida at IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent®, our annual research conference. I sincerely hope that the 450 of you who joined us had as much fun as I did. This year we sold out a month early, and the energy was higher than ever. For those … Read more»
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