Talent Management
Posted on March 20th, 2010.
Over the last five years, one of the fastest markets for enterprise software has been “talent management.” Talent Management Suites, now offered by more than 30 different providers, deliver a set of features and functionality which allow human resources and line managers automate, monitor, plan, and analyze all the “people-related” processes in a company. This fast-growing software market started with the standalone areas of performance appraisals, training administration (LMS), and applicant tracking – and…
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Posted on March 8th, 2010.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
recently published its Occupational Outlook for 2018 (the next 10 years) and it is well worth reading. This data, coupled with a number of meetings I”ve had recently with HR and L&D executives, clearly tells me that we are about to re-enter a new “war for talent.”
This phrase has been thrown around for years, so many of us have become somewhat…
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Posted on February 17th, 2010.
On April 6-8, 2010,
in St. Petersburg Florida, we will be hosting our third-annual Research Conference on Enterprise Learning and Talent Management: IMPACT 2010. The lineup for this year’s conference is the best ever – so I want to give you my thoughts on why you should bring your team to Florida for the best event in our industry.
1. This conference…
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Posted on February 5th, 2010.
Today SuccessFactors announced plans to acquire InfoHRM (renamed Inform Business Impact) – a small but very well established leader in the area of HR and Talent Analytics and Workforce Planning. We believe this acquisition is very significant for the talent and HR systems marketplace: it now establishes SuccessFactors as the emerging leader in the broad and important area of delivering actionable talent and HR measurement and…
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Posted on February 4th, 2010.
Toyota, one of the most revered brands in the world, has crashed to earth in the last few weeks due to its slow and weak response to a variety of gas pedal and braking system product defects. Most news sources state that the company has already spent $2 Billion to respond and the company’s sales dropped precipitously in the last month. The ultimate cost of the company’s behavior is likely to be much higher.…
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Posted on January 31st, 2010.
This week I had the opportunity to keynote the largest learning conference in the UK, the UK Learning Technologies Conference (developed and run by Donald H. Taylor, one of the most knowledgeable professionals in our industry). The title of my presentation was “Informal Learning: What, Why, and How – and what it means to You.”
The thesis of the presentation is that three…
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Posted on January 20th, 2010.
One of the most daunting talent management challenges in organizations is something we call “talent mobility” – the ability of an organization to enable and direct the movement of people from role to role. In today’s business environment this includes lateral movement, upward movement within a role, movement into leadership, movement into international or global assignments, movement into functional specialties, movement into developmental or exploratory assignments, and often movement from part-time to full-time…
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Posted on January 12th, 2010.
Last week Bedford Funding announced its acquisition of Peopleclick and the immediate combination of Peopleclick with existing portfolio company Authoria, 
creating a combined talent management systems company with more than 2,000 customers and $100 Million in revenue. The combined company (now named Peopleclick Authoria) is now a significant player in the talent management systems market.
History and Analysis of this Merger.
Authoria is…
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Posted on December 26th, 2009.
As we recap 2009 and look ahead to 2010 in the market for talent management software, two gorillas have emerged: Taleo and SuccessFactors. While together these companies make up less than 20% of the total market, their size and growth has made them companies to watch as this market continues to grow and mature.
In October, SuccessFactors announced plans to raise an additional $180 Million through public sale of stock at a price…
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Posted on December 17th, 2009.
After almost a year of effort we just released our first-ever Talent Management Systems Customer Satisfaction research. We will be publishing this annually, with next year’s results to coincide with the HR Technology Conference in Fall of 2010.
If you are a talent management systems owner, buyer, or vendor I recommend you read this – it is filled with important information about the state of customer satisfaction, what drives…
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