Dave Ulrich, professor in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the RBL Group, boldly headlines on his website: HR must give value or give notice. Ulrich has some fun with the alphabet in his Workforce Management article: The Talent Trifecta. First he cites a 3 Cs formula: Competence [...]

HR process delivery has worked wonders using web technology in the areas of self-service benefits enrollment, employee information updates, and online payroll stubs. They dramatically cut costs while providing improved convenience for employees. Watson Wyatts Changing Strategies in HR Technology and Outsourcing – 2007 HR Technology Trends Survey reveals that many companies still rely on [...]

You can easily figure out the premise from the title of the study, The Gap Between Needing and Doing: A Survey on Why Some Companies Dont Act on Strategic Workforce Planning Needs, and How Successful Companies Do. The report focuses on another disconnect“again between business challenges and business practices. Survey says: Eighty-one percent identify talent [...]

According to a recent study, in addition to books, card catalogs, and a quiet place to read, nearly 100 percent of public libraries also offer free Internet access. This means the local public library has become a key starting point in the hiring process for potential job seekers with no online access at home. The [...]

Douglas Ready and Jay Conger, visiting professors in organizational behavior at the London Business School, recently published an article titled How to Fill the Talent Gap in The Wall Street Journal. Based on research with dozens of companies, they identified the main talent problems and solutions. Here is a quick summary: THE PROBLEMS 1. EMERGING [...]

Serving 77 of the Fortune 100 and 50 percent of the FTSE 100, The Hackett Group is well positioned to do a study on the economic payback of talent management practices. So the results in their new Book of Numbers research volume Talent Management: Buzzword or Holy Grail? should ring loud and clear from the [...]

A next generation performance management solution is clearly needed by employees and employers alike, according to the results of a new Taleo study conducted online by Harris Interactive of 2,416 adult Americans. Here are just a few of the key findings: Only 12% of full and part-time workers say that their employers give them a [...]

One of our partners has revealed another opportunity for HR to choose a more strategic road in the journey to business performance. IBM Global Services conducted a survey about HR transformation and reveals their findings in the report, A New Approach, A New Capability: The strategic side of Human Resources. It opens with this warning [...]

Mergers and acquisitions are a regular occurrence in business. Traditionally motivated by the expectations of cost savings, multiplied revenue generation, market dominance, and more, many mergers and acquisitions can run full steam ahead into trouble. One Size Doesnt Fit All: The Distinct Leadership Capabilities for Organic, Alliance and M&A Growth, a study of more than [...]