Succession Management

A New Talent Management Framework

Posted on May 11th, 2010.

The concept of  ”Integrated Talent Management” became popular around five years ago – and since then organizations have used this phrase to describe an integrated approach to recruiting, development, performance management, compensation, development planning, and learning.   The goal here is not only to make the Human Resources function operate more efficiently, but more importantly… Read more»

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Why Talent Mobility Matters

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… Read more»

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Why Salary.com Won the 2009 HR Technology Shootout

Posted on November 4th, 2009.

For the last two Octobers we have travelled to the HR Technology Conference to see four HR software providers show off their software in the Talent Management Shootout. While the Shootout is a relatively short event at 75 minutes (each vendor gets about a total of 10-15 minutes of demonstration… Read more»

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Employers Capitulate on Business Slowdown – The Turnaround is Coming

Posted on July 27th, 2009.

In our Q2 TalentWatch® Dow Jones - July 2007-July 2009research report (TalentWatch is Bersin & Associates business research on employment, hiring, talent readiness, and investment trends, available to research members) we see definite signs that business leaders in most industries… Read more»

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Talent Mobility: What it is and why organizations need it

Posted on March 26th, 2009.

Talent MobilityOne of the themes of our exciting new Succession Management research is what we call “transparent talent mobility.”  It’s an important new concept in talent management, and one which came to us after more than a year of research into various succession management programs.

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Lessons from Yahoo: Enduring Organizations Manage Executive Succession

Posted on November 19th, 2008.

This week we witnessed another vivid lesson in the value of executive succession: Jerry Yang steps down as the CEO of Yahoo!. Yang replaced Terry Semel, who spent years trying to build Yahoo! into a media company, only to see it lose market share to the more innovative, technology savvy Google. Yang presided over an… Read more»

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Talent Management Challenges in the Federal Government

Posted on August 3rd, 2008.

We have been doing a lot of research and work with the Federal Government in the area of talent management.  Let me share a few interesting findings.

The United States Federal government has more than 2,7 million employees, ranging in roles from secret service agents to financial analysts to IT specialists to scientists.   These people work… Read more»

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Globalized Talent Management: Pemex and Banamex

Posted on June 13th, 2008.

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On the Minds of HR and Learning Leaders

Posted on May 17th, 2008.

We recently completed our annual research conference and I had a wonderful opportuinty to meet and talk with 15 different HR and L&D executives in a special roundtable.   The theme of our research conference is The Business of Talent®, and as you will read, this theme comes through in almost every organization.  Talent management is a strategic business… Read more»

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Are you an Enduring Organization?

Posted on April 20th, 2008.

As we continue to study best practices in the implementation of corporate learning and talent management, we find that high performing organizations fall into two categories:  those who endure and prosper over long periods of time (decades), and those who rapidly rise to prominence, then falter during a major business challenge, and often become acquired (or… Read more»

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