Money Chases Talent
May 5, 2008
We talk a lot about the future of work, borderless collaboration, as the war for talent drives businesses to look globally for the best people to get the job done. It is already happening. SuccessFactors Research has a unique window from which to draw... Read more...
Attack at the top of the hill
April 28, 2008
Go on the offense in the war for talent when your competition is hurt. Yes you hurt too but winning in business or in bike racing is a relative game - very relative. Of course you are stronger and feel more confident in your ability to sprint and attack... Read more...
HCM is good for the Green
April 24, 2008
Recently Saugatuck Technologies released a study showing that SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Human Capital Management software contributes at least 2-3% to top line growth – definitely good news for companies seeking more green. An article in this week’s... Read more...
What’s the time? - It doesn’t matter it’s always now…
April 11, 2008
I was preparing for a presentation about change management and how HCM technology drives results that I plan to deliver at an HCM conference when I saw this video. I must say that Sam Zell really nails it when addressing the staff at Newsday. This 6 minute... Read more...
Do you look forward to coming to work?
April 10, 2008
While the world is experiencing a war for talent, each region has its own, unique talent related challenges. Indeed there are local talent management phenomena, as Jason Averbook from Knowledge Infusion and I discussed in his recent blog. In some European... Read more...
The war for talent goes global
April 7, 2008
Few industries are so intensely engaged in the war for skilled people as is the high tech industry. Talent is everything. Microsoft and other powerhouses have been lobbying for more immigrant visas for skilled workers from abroad, which is illustrative... Read more...
Retention is up, that’s great! Wait, maybe not…
March 14, 2008
Though engagement levels are correlated with retention it is important that we don’t mix them up. We know that when the economy slows down people will have fewer opportunities to find great jobs elsewhere and out of necessity will decide to stay with... Read more...
Building bench strength is a myth
February 28, 2008
Why is that? Per definition that would imply that the person on the bench has more potential and capacity than what is currently being used right now. Well how many star players are happy sitting on the bench waiting for their turn to play? Building it... Read more...
Is work a place or something you do?
February 5, 2008
Sometime during the movement from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy I think we have collectively mixed this concept up, and so it merits the question today. Work used to be about what you could produce. When we moved into offices and cubicles,... Read more...
Give me what I need not just what I want!
January 19, 2008
I was just checking my Yahoo! mail where I saw an email highlighting a really cool piece of research recently done in the UK, studying how the Google generation (people born after 1993) go about getting information. The study, information behaviour of... Read more...
