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Entries from April 2009

Links 04/30/2009

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Sourcing Innovation: Top 10 Reasons That Good Employees Quit
Nice summary of things to remember when crafting talent management strategies and using enabling technology
tags: talentmanagement

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Links 04/21/2009

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Amazing Practices in Recruiting — ERE Award Winners 2009 (Part 2 of 2) : ERE.net
More great recruiting case studies from the ERE Awards. Definitely, a must read.
tags: e-recruitment

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Links 04/18/2009

April 18th, 2009 · No Comments

The Difference Between Awareness and Enforcement
John makes a great distinction here. It is an important lesson in performance management and change management as well.
tags: talentmanagement

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Making Sense of the Many Riffs on SaaS

April 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I have been seeing a lot of blog posts recently about the current state and future of SaaS.  Matt Tucker makes an intriguing argument about why single tenant is needed (and feasible) for SaaS based on the public cloud.  Bob Warfield (Update: my apologies Bob, I must have had the Miami Dolphins on the brain) [...]

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Links 04/16/2009

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

The irrational side of change management – The McKinsey Quarterly – irrational side change management – Organization – Change Management
This is a fantastic article on change management (subscription required). Recommended reading for anyone undertaking any sort of talent management or self-service initiative.
tags: talentmanagement

Will Resumes Become Obsolete? : ERE.net
I think it will eventually become obsolete. [...]

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Links 04/15/2009

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Amazing Practices in Recruiting — ERE Award Winners 2009 (Part 1 of 2) : ERE.net
Definitely a must read for those interested in best practice case examples for recruitment.
tags: e-recruitment

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Links 04/11/2009

April 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Are engagement surveys a waste of time? ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)
Good information about the debate on the usage (and usefulness) of engagement surveys.
tags: HCM, talentmanagement

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Links 04/10/2009

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Improving and innovating performance management ~ HR to HR 2.0 and HCM
This is a really good post (and links) about performance management. I do not think there is a one size fits all answer. Performance reviews can serve many purposes. It is important to understand what you want to impact (or not [...]

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Links 04/09/2009

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Not All Employee Turnover Is Bad — Celebrate “Losing the Losers” : ERE.net
This is absolutely true and HR processes and supporting systems need to get more sophisticated to draw out these nuances.
tags: talentmanagement

SaaS integration: Tricky, but manageable
Interesting article on SaaS integration.
tags: SaaS

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What Vista Equity Partners’ Likely Acquisition of SumTotal System Means to the HCM Software Market

April 7th, 2009 · No Comments

There is a fair amount of commentary in the blogosphere about Vista Equity Partners proposed acquisition of SumTotal Systems (it already owns ~13% today).  Some of the commentary decries the demise of the LMS.  Others have focused on how the proposed acquisition reflects the impact of broader trends (for example, Social Software and SaaS).  However, [...]

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