During times of robust economic growth, suggesting we face a “War for Talent” and arguing for the importance of strong talent management practices and solutions are fairly uncontroversial claims. But doing so during slow-growth, or even recessionary, economic times require a bit more explanation. So with apologies to Charles Dickens, I thought now — as we transition from [...]

Salesforce, Rypple, social this, social that, social the other thing.  Did I say social enough times?  Yeah, it’s déjà vu all over again.  Last week, we were fed a diet of empty cloud rhetoric; this week, the waiter has delivered “Social Performance Management,” the first in a five course meal described as “Social HCM.” Unfortunately, [...]

The first ever Taleo Europe customer conference took place in Paris on Tuesday 8th – Wednesday 9th November. With a turnout of almost 300 customers, partners and media, it was a huge success and a lot of fun too! We definitely plan to hold Taleo Europe on an annual basis in future years. One of [...]

SAP, SuccessFactors, mergers, acquisitions, valuations, SaaS, cloud, cloud and more cloud.  Did I mention cloud?  With the announced acquisition of SuccessFactors by SAP, there has been a flurry of communications from both companies and a deluge of analysis from every major financial and industry analyst who even remotely cover this space.  We’ve read about cloud [...]

    The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) is again celebrating employee learning in organizations with their Employee Learning Week (ELW) program from December 5-9, 2011. As their website describes, “Employee Learning Week is an awareness campaign highlighting the important connection between learning and achieving organizational results.” For organizations, recognition of ELW can range [...]

A few days ago I posted about the ADP jobs numbers and noted while the numbers looked good, there were two details that need to be closely considered before we get ahead of ourselves about recovery prospects. The first of these was the issue of Labor Participation Rate and the second was the seasonality of [...]

The ADP employment report was released today.  On the surface, the numbers appear to be trending in the right direction, but it’s important to put them in context.  In order for the US to maintain a break-even unemployment rate given current labor participation rates, the economy needs to add roughly 90,000 jobs per month.  The [...]

   Elliott Masie’s Learning 2011 conference was held November 6-9, in Orlando, Florida. This year a record 2000+ learning professionals gathered to learn from each other – showing that even in uncertain economic times, organizations are keeping a focus on learning, training, and development. As this was my fourth Masie Learning conference, I know that [...]

In two days, we celebrate Thanksgiving. Given this, you will no doubt see a number of HR posts this week focusing on the importance of giving thanks and feedback to your employees. This is not one of those posts. Instead, I’m going to share some thoughts on a few of the unhealthy similarities between Thanksgiving [...]

   Last week Adobe announced that they are ending further development of their popular Flash plugin technology for use in mobile device browsers, noting: “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively.  This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We [...]