by Jim Holincheck | July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
This is the first in a series of posts of what I call “Next Practices”. These are practices that look beyond today’s conventional HR approaches to achieve improved business outcomes. Business Situation: In a slow growth economy, it is difficult to get approval to hire new employees. However, there is a strong desire by CEOs [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | August 31, 2010 | Comments Off
I had the opportunity to spend the day (plus some additional time) this week with a group of about 20 influencers (analysts, bloggers, press) at the Workday Technology Summit. It is not the first time a group of influencers have been brought together by a vendor for in-depth discussions. However, this was a little unique [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | May 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
I had the opportunity to do one of the keynotes at SilkRoad’s first user conference earlier this week. It is a cool experience to go to the first user conference for a vendor. The crowd was pretty good (I do not have an official count, but I would estimate around 200 customer attendees – if [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | February 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have read a couple of blog posts (here and here) recently that talk about the de-motivating impact of performance appraisals. There is certainly debate to be had about the “goodness” and “badness” of performance reviews. It did start me thinking though. What if performance appraisals did not exist? Hiring/Onboarding – Performance review scores can [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
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 reminded me of [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | July 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
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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by Jim Holincheck | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
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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Category: Human Capital Management Tags: CRM, ERP, HCM, SCM
by Jim Holincheck | September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: Human Capital Management Oracle Talent Management Application Suites Workforce Analytics Tags: Analytics, HCM, Oracle, talentmanagement
by Jim Holincheck | September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
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, [...]
Category: Human Capital Management Oracle Tags: HCM, OpenWorld, Oracle
by Jim Holincheck | September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
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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