Last night at around 5.30pm I received a call from Penny Elmslie, the marketing manager at NGA.Net about two topics that they were very excited about. First was they had started a blog, second they had purchased a company. While the first piece of news is not that earth shattering for some, I personally feel it isContinue reading “NGA.Net Acquires Acelero for Performance Management”
Tag Archives: Talent Management
User Generated Competency Maps
Thomas Otter, Gartner Analyst by day cyclist by night, posted on his Gartner blog last week about the new XING Competency Card and how it raises questions around the need for “complex, expensive, poorly maintained HR competency management applications behind the firewall”. The competency card allow you to add skills to your XING profile (think aContinue reading “User Generated Competency Maps”
HR Technology Landscape
I have been thinking a lot about how complex the overall HR technology landscape has become in the last five years. Traditional time and attendance vendors now do all things (Kronos), applicant tracking vendors now do performance management (take your pick of vendors), learning management vendors now do compensation (Plateau ) and competitors are nowContinue reading “HR Technology Landscape”
Workforce Analytics: Following the employees
I ran across an interesting post from the LinkedIn blog, via Steve Barham from LinkedIn, entitled Where did all the people go from the collapsed financial institutions?. The post was looking at the flow of employees between five major financial services companies: Barclays Credit Suisse Citigroup Bank Of America JP Morgan Chase This image showsContinue reading “Workforce Analytics: Following the employees”
How engaged are your employees??
Last night I had the privilege to see François-Frédéric Guy perform in his Sydney debut as part of the Sydney Symphony’s International Pianists in Recital Series. François-Frédéric performed three Chopin and three Beethoven pieces to a packed crowd of piano lovers. In particular he performed: CHOPIN Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1 Nocturne in E, Op.62 No.2 Polonaise-fantaisie, Op.61 BEETHOVEN Sonata No.31 in AContinue reading “How engaged are your employees??”
HR/Payroll Software Used in Australia and New Zealand
There are lots and lots of different HR and Payroll systems in use across Australia and New Zealand, a fact that makes choosing a system very confusing. This process is made even more confusing by the lack of good quality information in the marketplace about what each solution offers. During the years I have selectedContinue reading “HR/Payroll Software Used in Australia and New Zealand”
Agile talent management software – Your survival plan?
I read with interest this morning Dr John Sullivan’s article looking at how to survive in such turbulent economic times, his concept seems to be a play on the software development process Agile. To quote Wikipedia Agile software development is: Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development,Continue reading “Agile talent management software – Your survival plan?”
PageUp People: Integrated Talent Management
What is Integrated Talent Management (ITM)? Well that was the question posed at this morning’s breakfast briefing session run by PageUp People to launch their new white paper, “ITM – The Evolution”. Their answer: Credit: Lumaxart ITM leverages the same data, process, workflow management, security model, user portals, and reporting and analytics tools across allContinue reading “PageUp People: Integrated Talent Management”
Internal Social Network Analysis
Following yesterday’s post on future recruiting technology, which looking back should have read future talent management technology, here is an example of thing I am seeing in the market. SAP has built a Social Network Analyzer prototype for inside the organisation. (Hat tip James Governor.) It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships. It providesContinue reading “Internal Social Network Analysis”
Future Summit Wrap Up
How do I summarise Future Summit 2009? (Credits: From Flickr aussiegall) I guess the best way as being talked to for 25 hours in a 36 hour period! This is a very different format to many of the other events I attend which tend to be more collaborative. This lack of collaborative time where the participants wereContinue reading “Future Summit Wrap Up”
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