David Manaster in his ERE Blog reviewed the Taleo 10Q which mentioned that 85% of Taleos revenue comes from the US. This is in fact something that we discussed yesterday with a couple of colleagues. While thats true, many of those customers run a global business and have operations that cross borders. In fact, Taleo [...]

Executive Issues 2005 is an annual global research project carried out by Accenture for the third year at a global level with responses from 425 individuals. They ask questions about 45 business issues contained in several categories related to the theme: High performance and the need for balance. The issues revolve around customers, finance, cost [...]

The Capability Within is a new study of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) around the world done by IBM. Inside are a couple of interesting findings. The top 3 initiatives for CHROs in response to CEO priorities are: organization transformation, people development, and talent management. Turnover of staff is about twice as high in the [...]

Over seven years ago, Taleo was faced with a key strategic technology decision: Are software applications delivered as a service the trend of the future? In other words: Is it a good decision for Taleo to continue to invest heavily in the on demand model? Today it seems more like a rhetorical question as the [...]

As were catching up with our stack of reading, we took the time to go into the details of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article The Surprising Economics of a People Business. What is a people business? Its any division or business with high employee costs, especially when compared to businesses with high capital costs [...]

Two recent studies have been released on pre-employment assessment and screening tools ” one from Charles Handler and Mark Healy and the other from Katherine Jones at Aberdeen. First, its important to make the strategic distinction between assessment and screening. Screening is the simple qualification for employment and is not similar to assessment or the [...]

The Google Microsoft legal fight these days about one individual is the perfect example of the supreme value of intellectual capital. Google looks at it as a scare tactic. It could really be that, but it is a clear statement that people and confidential strategies are worth more than anyone can think. The immense value [...]

A very direct article Why We Hate HR? makes a simple point: in a knowledge economy, companies with the best talent win, so why, HR people are neither strategic nor leaders? We certainly agree with the first statement, best talent win(s) but I think HR as we know it, should not try to be strategic. [...]

This question is the same as: who is responsible for the liabilities linked to 7% of your revenue today? According to our research, most large organizations spend about 7% of revenue on contingent labor (i.e. contractor, temp,). As you can see on the chart, today 33% of organizations are unclear about who owns it. Another [...]

The upcoming Watson Wyatt Human Capital Index study holds some interesting facts to show your CEO or CFO why you need to invest more on some specific talent initiatives. WW looked at two key corporate financial impacts: 3 year total return to shareholders – below I will call it return, and market premium or how [...]