Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
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The market for corporate talent analytics has gotten red hot in the last two years. Almost every major organization we talk with wants to build a “data-driven HR” program to help understand who to hire, identify the factors that drive retention, analyze employee engagement, and apply data to ... Read more»
The HR technology landscape, which is now more than a $15 billion market in software, is exploding with growth and innovation. We are tracking more than 100 new startups in social and referral recruiting, talent analytics, assessment science, online learning, and mid-market core HR systems. New tools to help manage employee communications, engagement, recognition, and ... Read more»
A very interesting Careerbuilder survey just found that the majority of employees do not want to be managers. This research, which surveyed over 3,600 employees, found that only 40% of men and 29% of women aspire to a leadership role (34% overall).
When asked why these people did not aspire to leadership, the #1 ... Read more»
This week I attended three client conferences – SuccessFactors Successconnect, the Achievers Customer Experience, and the Glassdoor Employment Brand Summit. All three of these companies are introducing amazingly powerful new offerings, so in this article I’ll highlight some of them – with full knowledge that a barrage of announcements will becoming at ... Read more»
One of the buzzwords we often use in the talent world is “strategic HR.” Given all the administrivia which HR people do, is it really possible for HR to be “strategic?” If so, what does this mean and what does “strategic HR” look like?
What Does It Mean to Be Strategic
Let’s take a minute ... Read more»
We just released our newest research on the corporate Learning Management Systems market and the numbers are astounding. The market is well over $2.5 billion and grew by over 21% this year.
These are big numbers, especially since the market grew by only 13% the prior year. Why all the growth? There are four big ... Read more»
| These predictions were recorded in the summer of 2014 and discuss our top 10 predictions for HR, talent, and learning in the coming year. For more details please download our 2014 Predictions Report. Thanks to SuccessFactors for producing these videos. |
Prediction 1: Global Skills Gaps and Talent Networks Will Reshape HR
Prediction 2: ... Read more»
I recently read a wonderful article in The Economist entitled Decluttering the Company and it reminded me of the tremendously important job we have to simplify business at all levels.
Well we in HR and L&D have something to learn here. In this article I’d like to talk about simplification: what we might want ... Read more»
I probably read more than one hundred human resources, leadership, and business books a year (e-readers are amazing) and I rarely have time to review them. Most are great books in many ways. (I”m preparing my reading list, stay tuned.)
In this article, however, I’d like to discuss an important new book which is well ... Read more»
Over the years I’ve read article after article about what’s wrong with Human Resources.
The most famous was “Why I Hate HR” published in 2005 in Fast Company, followed by many blogs on the topic and a recent article by Ram Charan in Harvard Business Review and a Wall Street Journal story about ... Read more»
I just completed a fascinating radio interview with two IT leaders discussing how to retain and manage a highly technical workforce.
How do you, as a leader, develop a highly engaged technical team? We all have technical teams, whether they are engineers, scientists, researchers, designers, artists, writers, or even customer service agents.
Well these folks ... Read more»
The market for corporate talent management software continues to surge. CornerstoneOnDemand just announced 39% YTY growth in revenues, and our discussions with Saba, SumTotal Systems, SAP, Oracle, ADP, Jobvite, and others show growth rates all in the double digits..
Our latest research shows that this market grew by 17% last year and is now over ... Read more»
In 2014 the world of Talent, Leadership and HR will undergo dramatic change. (Download our 66 page Predictions Report here.)
The economy will accelerate its growth. Global growth will create a new level of competition for people. People will look to change jobs and seek better opportunities. HR organizations will shift their focus ... Read more»
I just finished two weeks in Europe and attended the iRecruit Conference in Amsterdam. In addition to talking with many talent acquisition leaders and vendors, we previewed the findings of our upcoming High-Impact Talent Acquisition research which I will highlight below.
1. Social tools and “talent networks” are a hot topic.
With the ... Read more»
I’ve had the opportunity to study talent management, training, and human resources for more than fifteen years now. And after talking with literally hundreds of companies, leaders, and specialists, I’ve come to a simple conclusion.
HR is not really a profession, HR is a “craft.”
It is something we do carefully by hand, ... Read more»