Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
We just released the largest-ever research study on the market for talent management suites. This research took place over the last 18 months and is the result of an exhaustive analysis of 20 vendors, 800+ HR managers, and in-depth meetings with more than 50 organizations. Leighanne Levensaler, our principal analyst in this area, is ... Read more»
Last week was a big week in the world of corporate talent management systems. SuccessFactors, one of the fastest-growing providers of performance management software, went public. The initial IPO valued the company at about $500 Million, or close to 9 times sales. This valuation is very high relative to the other companies in this ... Read more»
This week I was on a panel at the Oracle Users Group discussing the needs of the multi-generational workforce. Most of the attendees (HR and training managers) were focused on identifying what their organizations need to do to attract, manage, and integrate younger workers into their organizations.
Our research clearly shows that the Millenia (20s) ... Read more»
For those of you technical people, read on. Before I entered the world of training and talent management, I spent almost ten years of my career in the analytics and data warehousing business. At that time (1980s and early 1990s) the market for “business intelligence” software was wild. There were dozens of companies selling pc-based ... Read more»
This year’s shootout focused on the powerful integration (but not well understood or adopted) between performance management and recruiting including the coveted, and often elusive measure of “quality of hire. Four leading talent management suite vendors were included; Authoria, HRsmart, SuccessFactors, and Vurv had 75 minutes to demonstrate ... Read more»
Leighanne Levensaler and I just finished a week at the HR Technology show in Chicago. This conference represents one of the biggest meetings of HR technologists and HR software vendors each year. As always, this conference was an opportunity for most of the HR and learning technology providers to announce new products and offerings.
Here ... Read more»
Should we kill the performance appraisal process?
Over the last few years as we have studied the market for performance management systems, we have talked with dozens of HR executives and managers about their performance management process. In our discussions we find that organizations struggle mightily with the right way to craft the precise process ... Read more»
Yesterday Taleo, one of the largest providers of online recruiting and applicant tracking systems, announced its long-awaited performance management system. As we have been writing for nearly two years, it is about time someone started to rethink this problem. The system is built on a whole new metaphor for user interfaces, giving the manager, employee, ... Read more»
(This post was recently updated after conversations with
SuccessFactors VP of Product Marketing.)
Recently SuccessFactors Inc. filed their “S-1” statement, a prospectus to file for public offering. SuccessFactors is one of the most interesting and fast-growing software companies in the talent management market. Looking at the S-1 filing helps us understand many things about this ... Read more»
The Top 22 Business Processes which Drive Business Impact
In 2007 we conducted one of the largest-ever studies of corporate talent management: we interviewed and surveyed more than 750 corporations to gain an understanding of their business problems, their talent challenges, and their levels of maturity and sophistication in 62 different talent management processes.
This ... Read more»
Talent Management” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Corporate HR and Training today. In this article we will explain the history, principles, and processes of talent management and help readers understand this important area.
From Personnel to Strategic HR to Talent Management
To understand why Talent Management has become so important, we ... Read more»
Reflections on the 2006 HR Technology Conference
We recently attended the HR Technology trade show in Chicago. This conference is the only event purely focused on the selection and implementation of HR technology (primarily software systems). This year’s three-day event, held in Chicago in early October, drew more than 1,500 attendees and more than 220 ... Read more»