Every year, Fortune magazine delivers their list of Americas most admired companies. The survey is a rigorous process that The Hay Group performs based on nine key areas: 1. Ability to attract and retain talented people. 2. Quality of management. 3. Social responsibility to the community and the environment. 4. Innovativeness. 5. Quality of products [...]

I was on a panel yesterday with many vendors in the talent management space and we were asked to explain: What is Talent Management? I was surprised by the number of people who limited their definition to what they were doing: Talent management is performance management, incentive compensation, or talent acquisition. If you look at [...]

At a Conference Board event last week, I was asked on a panel by Row Henson, now at Oracle, Why do you think HR has been so slow to adopt Human Capital Analytics? I built my response on five reasons, and asked the audience if they had more, but nothing substantial came to complement these: [...]

Interesting results in the 2006 DirectEmployers Association Recruiting Trends Survey conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton. Corporate websites are working well for sourcing: Fifty-one percent of new hires were sourced from the Internet. Employer websites were the single best source of new hires in 2005, followed closely by employee referrals. Quality and recruiting processes are improving: [...]

After I recently attended a wedding reception in honor of two Taleo employees who had found romance in the workplace, my inquisitive mind asked: Is it only at Taleo that relationships are formed? So I did some research. According to a SHRM study released this year, 40% of people have been involved”at some point in [...]

It is always interesting what comes out of this huge gathering of very influential politicians and business leaders at the World Economic Forum. As in 2000, one session contained the word talent in the title. This year that title was The Global Talent Tap. Perhaps the theme didn’t evolve from the War for Talent of [...]

Following the Microsoft announcement a couple of months ago about Windows Live and Office Live services, today SAP had a press conference to announce their move into Software as a Service (SaaS). For them, this action is a response to customer demand. For everyone else, its a great validation for all on demand providers today [...]

The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently released a report on Talent Management. We like it when our customer and the most significant HR association with its over 200,000 members takes a look at what we see as the most critical factor of HR today. With only 11% of respondents having an HR department [...]