Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
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 ... Read more»
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 ... Read more»
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 ... Read more»
It’s here, our Corporate Learning and Talent Management Predictions for 2010. Each year for the last six years we have published an in-depth report on our predictions for the coming year. This year we have 12, and they are described in detail in this free report.
I just finished a research member roundtable with some of our major clients and want to share five big issues we see emerging for 2010:
1. Diversity as a talent management strategy.
Nearly all of our clients mentioned that their talent management strategy now includes diversity. The definition of diversity is broad: it includes age, ... Read more»
Each quarter for the last several years we have published TalentWatch®, a comprehensive look at talent trends in organizations around the world. 
This report, which is only available to research members, looks at several key topics:
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 time), there are often as ... Read more»
There are many demographic changes taking place in the US workforce today. Perhaps one of the most profound and personal is the rapid growth of women in the working population. This month “The Shriver Report” is being released – a comprehensive look at the growing role of women in the world of work. ... Read more»
Today
Taleo announced Taleo 10, the company’s new product family name for Taleo Enterprise Recruiting, Taleo Performance, Taleo Compensation, and Taleo Development. Yes, today Taleo formally announced that the company is in the end-to-end “Unified Talent Management” platform market. Did the company just roll a “strike?”
Let me give our readers a few key highlights, ... Read more»
This week SuccessFactors 
took a somewhat bold move by relaunching itself as a “Business Execution” software company. This idea, which is not new (The Balanced Scorecard Initiative® has been working on tools for this for many years), is to reposition the company’s performance and talent management software as a way to build strong alignment ... Read more»
As the
talent management software industry continues to grow and mature, it is time to ask some critical questions.
How well do these systems really work? How well do they drive value? Do they meet customer expectations? And what can vendors, customers, and consultants do to create higher levels of satisfaction and ROI?
We will ... Read more»
Even in this year’s terrible economy, the Talent Management Software market continues to show signs of life. We estimate this important market will reach around $2.4 Billion by the end of 2009 and continues to grow in size and importance.
How the Talent Management Software Market is Expanding
In our Q2 TalentWatch® research 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 have now lowered their expectations and essentially “capitulated” on the 2009 recession. This means that companies have stopped looking ... Read more»
The top issue on the minds of HR leaders today is the need to “rebuild a culture of performance” in their organizations. (From the 2009 Talent Management Factbook®, n=780 organizations). This is a clear result of the slow economy, restructuring and layoffs, and stock market drop we have experienced this year.
In response to ... Read more»