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News and commentary on the business of human capital from Talent Management’s editors.
You may have heard that Yahoo Inc.’s president and CEO Marissa Mayer has called for the company’s entire workforce to be physically present in an office space instead of working from home. That’s a pretty bold decision, especially in an era where organizations are commended publicly for making the move toward telecommuting and flextime and [...]
On Monday as the HR Tech Conference got underway, I wrote that HR technology is under a microscope. Led by tech giants like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com and IBM, the industry has been a juicy target for acquisition and investment. Integrated talent management technology providers like SuccessFactors, Taleo and Kenexa, each of whom had [...]
If anyone was doubting why he or she made the — somewhat early — trek back to the conference this Tuesday morning (as if those breakfast burritos they’ve been serving aren’t enough of a reason), Steven Miranda, senior vice president of applications development at Oracle, had an immediate answer. Technology is important. Not only that, [...]
Few corporate functions give themselves a more thorough beating than HR. Hardly a day goes by without someone at an HR conference somewhere delivering a good tongue lashing about being too focused on tactics at the expense of strategy or the lack of skills and ability to take a seat at that ever-elusive executive table.
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At the beginning of this year, it was predicted that the candidate experience would be a top trend for 2012. As we reach the end of the year, my briefings at Monday’s HR Technology Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago confirmed that. The continuing high unemployment means more people are looking for jobs, but [...]
I woke up today thinking it was just another Monday morning, but before the caffeine I consumed had a chance to settle, big news broke as IBM disclosed its intention to acquire Kenexa, a provider of recruiting and talent management products, for $1.3 billion. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 this [...]
All’s been relatively quiet in the HR vendor market lately. Since SAP and Oracle shook up the market starting at the end of 2011 with the purchase of SuccessFactors and Taleo, respectively, and their subsequent moves and counter-moves to pick up data analytics and cloud-based service technologies, there’s been relatively little [...]
He spoke for nearly an hour, but when Jim Collins, author of a slew of wildly popular business books, including his most recent, Great by Choice, finished his remarks Tuesday morning at SHRM 2012 in Atlanta, the point was simple.
Pick the right people. Set goals. And develop a plan to achieve them.
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When somebody says those dreaded words to me: “I’d like to talk to you today about millennials,” my first response is, “I’d like you not to.”
So when Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of bestselling books such as “Outliers,” “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” started his keynote [...]
The 64th annual Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Conference and Expo kicked off Sunday in Atlanta, with a focus on mending the skills gap in the United States and the importance of embracing change as a means for growth in today’s global and complex business environment.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza [...]
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