Jim Holincheck

Dennis Howlett (@dahowlett) gave me a gentle reminder in Twitter that there has been a lot of praise out there for something that has not been officially released yet.  Again, this is my personal opinion, not the official Gartner position (as all blogging on the Gartner Blogging Network is), but his point [...]

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I was at the IHRIM Global Forum today and it struck me that there all kinds of useful case studies done at HCM conferences and on various sites, but there is no easy way to find one across all conferences and sites.  So, I came up with the idea to create a database where people [...]

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I did a presentation yesterday Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo about how to align IT with ERP, CRM, and SCM users.  I thought I made a pretty compelling case.  Most CIOs think that IT does not lacks the flexibility to respond to business change, that it could do more to deliver technology innovations needed by the business, and [...]

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Thomas and I started Day 2 with a briefing on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for the upcoming MQ for Employee Performance Management software.  Oracle continues to make progress filling in some of the functional gaps and the product remains quite good in areas such as compensation management.  The adoption rate is also quite good within [...]

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Here are the headlines, in my mind, from the opening day of OpenWorld:

Complete. Open. Integrated — This is the main theme for the conference which I saw repeated in a number of presentations.  Here is my take on what Oracle intends it to mean:

Complete — Oracle is very focused on industry solutions.  That is, providing a [...]

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First, let’s go through the statistics.  Taleo stated it had 900 attendees at the conference (including 80 Vurv customers).  It also indicated it now has 3,600 total customers (including 1,600 Taleo Business Edition customers).  Taleo also reached a milestone recently with the 100 millionth candidate applying for a job through Taleo.   Michael Gregoire, Taleo’s CEO, kicked off the conference [...]

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Gartner has a product offering specifically for the investor community.  We have quite a variety of investors from Venture Capitalist (VCs) to Private Equity (PE) firms to institutional investors.  The most common question, not surprisingly, that I have had from all of these constituencies is whether or not we see a slowdown in the HCM market [...]

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Peter Cappelli did the opening keynote today at the Kenexa World Conference.  His presentation focused on many of themes in his book “Talent On Demand“.  Here are a couple of important takeaways/things to think about:

Mobility in the external labor market has made it difficult for employers to invest in training and development.  By the time [...]

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