Tuesday’s Tidbits: Challenges in Talent Mobility

“Tuesday’s Tidbits” is a recurring post serving up “choice morsels” of information. Brief? You bet. Distracting? Absolutely. Useful? Hope so! Read on and enjoy. I’ve been writing and speaking a lot about the Future of Work and how it requires an evolution in the way we engage and inspire the next generation workforce. New thinking [...]

Peoplefluent Gains Social Platform as Private Equity Firm, Bedford Funding, Invests in Socialtext

In a press release today, Bedford Funding – the private equity firm that owns Talent Management solutions provider Peoplefluent – announced a strategic investment in privately held Socialtext, a provider of enterprise social software based in Palo Alto, California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, Socialtext provides enterprise social networking tools [...]

The Profile Wars (Part 1): What’s In Your Wallet?

During the March 2012 CloudForce event in San Francisco, Salesforce.com announced its newly integrated services from Salesforce Rypple, delivering social goal, performance and feedback capabilities integrated with Salesforce Chatter and CRM just six weeks after completing the acquisition of Rypple. In the many write-ups on the announcement, I saw a heavy focus on the functional capabilities enabled by this [...]

Ceridian Claims its Seat at the SaaS HCM Table

Following its acquisition of Dayforce, Ceridian becomes the latest entrant in the SaaS HCM market

Trends in Social Talent: Web Event Recap

In March, I had the honor of kicking off the first episode of the Social Talent Show, a bi-monthly virtual event sponsored by TalentCulture, UpMo and #TChat (@Twitter). In this inaugural show I framed Social Talent as the ”Next Wave of Awesomeness”, and had a healthy conversation/debate with Rob Garcia of UpMo and Meghan Biro of TalentCulture on why you should care about these emerging trends, the [...]

Ultimate Software Advances a People-Centric, Collaborative Platform

Last week I attended Ultimate’s User Conference, held in Las Vegas, to participate in their analyst events as well as to speak on the topics of employee engagement and talent management. Despite the many possible diversions, (“gamification” certainly has new – or is that old – meaning in Vegas), the content, customers and speakers were [...]

Seven Ways Infor Is Advancing HCM (Hint: Lawson is But One)

Summary: HCM growth gains prominence at Infor as investments across infrastructure and technologies combine to create a solid foundation for HCM growth. With a focus on complete vertical solutions, a consumer grade user experience and flexibility, Infor is poised to capitalize on its position as the third largest ERP vendor in the world. Let’s face it: [...]

Tuesday’s Tidbits: How Does Your Tech Vendor Define Differentiation?

“Tuesday’s Tidbits” is a recurring post serving up “choice morsels” of information. Brief? You bet. Distracting? Absolutely. Useful? Hope so! Read on and enjoy. In a conversation with my colleagues today as we reflected on various vendor briefings, the question was raised, “Do all vendors think their competitive differentiators are unique?” By definition, “differentiation” should imply [...]

Thriving in the Future of Work

The world is changing, and so, too, is the way we work. From how we attract and onboard new talent into our organizations, to how we view and measure individual and team performance, to ensuring ongoing engagement and inspiration for better business results. Traditional work practices and business structures are evolving at an unparalleled rate [...]

News Analysis: SAP and SuccessFactors Unveil Early Roadmap for HCM

This morning, SAP and SuccessFactors, an SAP company, issued a press release in which their unified Human Capital Management (HCM) product roadmap was unveiled.  The primary message is that SAP has adopted a hybrid strategy for HCM:  the SuccessFactors portfolio for Cloud HCM, and the current SAP ERP Human Capital Management portfolio for on premise. Details on this and other [...]