BigData is Big News.
Splunk, a company that uses BigData technology to analyze huge amounts of customer and transaction data, just went public with a valuation at 28X revenue ($3.2 billion). This valuation trumps the hot companies in social networking: Jive trades at 20X revenue, Google trades at 5X revenue, and Facebook, … Read more»
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Today’s workforce has changed tremendously. It’s younger, more specialized, looking for better work… and it’s virtual.
By the year 2014, 47% of US workers will be under the age of 35. And these younger workers are just as smart and hard-working as we baby-boomers are.
Yet today entry level positions are very hard to find. … Read more»
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In preparation for our IMPACT Annual Research Conference in April, I have been actively studying our research over the last year. What we have discovered (and I will be discussing this in detail in my keynote), is that today’s business environment requires a complete rethink of many of the traditional practices of HR.
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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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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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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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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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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»
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?
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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.
Josh Bersin is President and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory services firm in enterprise learning and talent management.
