Because You’re Young
June 18, 2008
The title of this blog entry is taken from a song on one of my favorite David Bowie albums, “Scary Monster & Super Creeps”. If you own this album, there is a good chance you are a member of my generation (X). In my experience, knowledge of... Read more...
SumTotal Systems Talent Development and Mobile Learning Take Center Stage at TBCON 2008
June 17, 2008
SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions, today unveiled new features from the upcoming release of ToolBook® version 9.5 at TBCON 2008, a global ToolBook user conference. As part of... Read more...
Viva Pay for Performance! Even Cuba gets it!
June 13, 2008
It is always surprising when people resist the idea that pay and performance are related. It is so logical - reward your best, and make sure that slackers aren’t hanging around being rewarded. Why would a rock star keep performing if he or she were... Read more...
SumTotal Delivers Industry’s Only Unified Talent Development Suite
June 3, 2008
SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions, today announced the 8.0 release of the SumTotal Talent Development Suite , bringing a unified approach to the critical components needed to... Read more...
SumTotal Wins ASTD Excellence in Practice Award
June 3, 2008
SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), the market leader and global provider of talent development solutions, today announced that the company was selected as a 2007 ASTD Excellence in Practice Award Winner for their internal use of the SumTotal Unified... Read more...
Managing Tomorrow Today
June 2, 2008
I’m happy to present this guest blog from our Thought Leader partner and my friend Dr. Jac Fitz-enz. Predicting the future is a big business. Economists, financiers, demographers, pollsters and pundits are paid big money for their insights into what... Read more...
7 Key Steps to Starting Effective Career and Succession Planning – A Vaccination Plan for the Talent Shortage Crisis
May 23, 2008
Know the 7 key steps to start an effective career and succession planning in your organization and overcome talent shortage threats. This white paper will discuss factors causing talent pools to dry up, recent survey results that show how people are addressing... Read more...
Hawker Pacific Lands on SumTotal to Manage Job and Career Alignment
May 23, 2008
SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of learning, performance and talent management solutions, today announced that Hawker Pacific Aerospace, a leading independent landing gear overhaul and repair organization is using SumTotal’s... Read more...
If you are going to fail, do it fast
May 22, 2008
It’s an old adage that you have to try and fail before you succeed, in fact entrepreneurs practically live by this code. But what about established organizations? A lot of businesses don’t feel this way, even though they should. The sooner an employee... Read more...
Money Chases Talent
May 6, 2008
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present another guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team We talk a lot about the future of work, borderless collaboration, as the war for talent drives businesses to look globally... Read more...