Not only did the Australians invent the flipper, a devious cricket delivery, but they have an innovative HR technology thinker in Michael Specht. If you are interested in HR tech then you ought to be reading his blog. He has a lot of experience and interesting ideas, especially around the impact of social software on HR.
More generally, there is a lot of HR technology innovation coming out of Australia and New Zealand. Expect to hear more about HR technology innovation from outside the US in my Gartner research over the next few months. Global companies looking at talent management processes would do well to cast their net wider than just the leading US and European Vendors. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see Australian and NZ vendors start to succeed globally. They seem to be growing in confidence and reach through the success with the larger Australian multi-nationals. Now the next test is to see if they can make the big leap and compete for other multi-national business.
Keeping up with the rate of innovation in HR technology is challenging, so if you have come across an innovative smaller vendor, no matter where in the world you are, let me know what you are doing with them. If you are a small vendor innovating in the HCM space, arrange a vendor briefing with me or Jim Holincheck. Rolf Jester and I are also interested in talking to SIs that focus on HCM technologies, would love to hear about what you are up to.
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1 Jordi Gili // Jun 23, 2009 at 7:04 am
Hi Thomas,
Just wanted to tell you about the sponsor at Social Recruiting Summit, Jobscience.com. I don’t know if you are already following them or not (probably, you are), but they have some interesting propositions for the mid-size market.
Now, I think that the HR software vendors are facing a critical time since the social marketplace is evolving far much more quicker that their capacity to keep up with products.
I’d be delighted to share points of view from now on if you may.
Find me at tomsawyer.es
Best,
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