by Jim Holincheck | September 20, 2010 | Comments Off
This is going to be a quick one as I am at Oracle OpenWorld and will need to get busy on that Trip Report soon. Certainly, the Learn.com acquisition was a big deal. I am working on a note discussing that acquisition as well as another note on the broader subject of M&A in the [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | August 28, 2010 | Comments Off
The Boss as Human Shield: New HBR Article Based on Good Boss, Bad Boss – Bob Sutton Good advice that I have found this to be true both managing consultants and analysts. tags: HCM talentmanagement Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
I review a lot of documents and provide pricing and contract negotiations advice to clients. Something that bothers me having started my career in consulting is how abysmal the implementation statement of work (SOW) is from most software vendors. For those that do not know what a SOW is, it is pretty much what is [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | August 2, 2010 | Comments Off
I had wanted to do a First Take on this acquisition, but for the moment, I do not have the time and will point you to some other sources of information and a few thoughts of my own. Jason Corsello does a nice job summarizing the facts of the acquisition, the history of StepStone Solutions, [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | August 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
One of the things about being an analyst is that clients rely on you to cut through the hype and claims to find out about reality (or as close as they can get). I have had some interactions with some of our vendor clients and seen some blog posts about a press release Gartner put [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | July 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Winning The War On Talent Mark provides his take on the Kenexa analyst day – very bullish on its prospects. We have maintained since our initial published research on talent management in 2005 that the combination of applications, content (competencies, analytics, etc.), and services would be required to get the most from talent management investments. [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | July 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Referral Recruiting: Duh! – ERE.net Interesting take on the challenges of referral recruiting using social technologies. I do not agree though that recruiting should be part of procurement. tags: HCM talentmanagement recruiting Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | July 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Top 100 v1.65 Jim Holincheck | HR Examiner with John Sumser Thanks to John Sumser for profiling me in this series. It is an honor to be included with this group. tags: no_tag Got Social Processes? Interesting taxonomy of social processes from Jim Sinur at Gartner. tags: socialnetworking How has the recession changed the face [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | July 3, 2010 | Comments Off
NFP Preview – Handicapping Friday’s Jobs Report | The Big Picture For those in interested in a nice summary of jobs data take a look at the latest from the June 2010 report. tags: nfp talentmanagement Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Jim Holincheck | June 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Employers reshaping talent management programs One more survey about Talent Management, from Mercer, for good measure in the links today. tags: talentmanagement “Refocusing on Talent Management – Human Resource Executive Online More survey data on talent management adoption – this time from E&Y. tags: talentmanagement Talent Management Systems Taking on “Must Have” Status for Human [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
