Join us to debate the great outsourcing talent paradox
Cranking it up to Eleven (left to right)… Anoop, Henric and John You firm has incredible talent that performs miracles of heightened performance with your outsourcing relationships. Your provider serves up boundless dollops of innovations that never cease to delight. Then don’t bother to tune in this coming Thursday to debate the State of Outsourcing [...]
Event Report: Customers Very Happy At Ultimate Connections 2013 (#ulticonnect)
Partnership Announcements Enhance Ultimate Software’s Offerings Amidst a crowd of 1500 customers, partners, and attendees, Ultimate Software held their annual gathering from March 12th to March 15th, 2013 in Las Vegas. Geared towards the medium sized to enterprise markets, Ultimate Software has steadily taken market share from ADP for payroll and expanded out into operational [...]
The life and times of HR application software (2012 in review)
Major Themes 2012 was an interesting one for Human Resources software. From Talent Management, Payroll, Analytics, HRMS and other niche HR solutions, there were a number of cool innovations, emerging trends and a lot of M&A with a side order of an IPO. Let’s review the big themes: You couldn’t swing a dead cat at [...]
Don’t Make Your Next Performance Review Suck
Corporate America appears to be doing a very poor job when it comes to aligning goals, providing performance feedback, and actually investing in the development of employees.
The Emergence of Data Scientists
Every year around this time, I like to do a tour of companies, mostly startups, in Silicon Valley. It’s a chance for me to get annual pulse on new trends in “the valley”. Silicon Valley is like no other place. When I grew up there many years ago it was a much different place. [...]
Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.
Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts: how not to [...]
It’s more about technology than ever for HR executives…
Our trusted friends, over at the HR department, haven’t given up the ghost in helping their organizations close these capability gaps either… and they look beyond service providers alone as the solution: they want to invest in better technology. So where better to spend your time that at the HR technology in Chicago from October 8-10, 2012, where Bill Kutik and crew will put on their annual ode to the world of…. HR technology.
Event Report: #HRTechConf Preview w/ Bill Kutik
15 Years of HR Technology At The Industry’s Premier Event The fifteenth annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition returns to McCormick Place in Chicago October 8th to 10th, 2012. HR Tech is the industry’s longest running event looking at technologies that influence the Future of Work. The Inside View With Bill Kutik – Future of [...]
Cornerstone OnDemand + Sonar6 = Spectacular Like
As you may have noticed, we are setting sail on a new, exciting journey at Cornerstone OnDemand. Last week, we announced the acquisition of Sonar6. Sonar6, based in Auckland, New Zealand, represents the first acquisition for Cornerstone and a huge opportunity that accelerates our strategy to deliver the best talent management solutions to companies of [...]
Cloud Wars Heating Up: Oracle : Taleo, Dassault Systemes : Netvibes
This past week virtually no one in the software world was surprised by Oracle’s announcement of intent to acquire cloud talent management vendor Taleo. The acquisition that was something of a surprise, and maybe you even missed, was the much…
