For a long time, staffing suppliers and vendors have seen a vendor management system (VMS) as a threat. But as described in a recent article in Contingent Workforce Strategies, they are starting to see it more as an enabling tool for their customers. The most progressive suppliers are looking to integrate to the VMS in [...]

We were reading the Towers Perrin report recently where they were asking a very simple question: How do organizations measure success in talent management today? Here are their answers below in percentages:

Surprisingly, we sometimes still hear that a few companies question on demand infrastructure and the software as a service (SaaS) that it delivers. If that is the case in your organization, I would send them this link to read the CIO survey by CIO Insight magazine. Refer specifically to the question: Where does your company [...]

We read with great interest an article from The McKinsey Quarterly called Strategy in an era of global giants. Since many Taleo customers are global giants, I was positively surprised to see the high importance placed on talent management. The key finding here is the fact that large organizations have been able to increase their [...]

The last two days in Orlando were full of unique value for all the Taleo customers that join our yearly event. It is always a good feeling to see more than 500 people so devoted to talent management congregate and exchange best practices. Not only were many Taleo partners and Taleo experts sharing their insights, [...]

Last week, I watched the documentary movie called Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. I think it should be a compulsory movie to watch for all MBA students and strongly recommended for anyone who works in business. The interesting fact about Enron is that it was featured as one of the exceptional companies in [...]

Several years ago, a VP of HR was telling me that their company, a member of the Fortune 500 list, was extremely bad at offering the next opportunity to its talented employees. How did he know? Exit interviews explained the issue: it was easier to find opportunities outside than inside the company! That is exactly [...]

We very much enjoyed the article Rethinking the Value of Talent by Jeffrey Joerres and Dominique Turcq in strategy+business. The key idea that is very well explained here is how to think about business critical talent versus simple titles. This is leading savvy organizations to start thinking about talent in four general roles: Those four [...]