Tuesday’s Tidbits: Challenges in Talent Mobility

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

“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 [...]

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

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

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 [...]

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News Analysis: SAP and SuccessFactors Unveil Early Roadmap for HCM

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

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 [...]

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News Analysis: Further HCM Industry Consolidation as Oracle buys Talent Management Vendor Taleo for $1.9B

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Following moves by rivals SAP and Salesforce.com, Oracle expands its offering in Cloud-based HCM with competitive acquisition of leading recruiting and talent management vendor Taleo. Event: Today Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world’s second largest business applications maker, announced its intentions to acquire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO) for $46.00 per share, or an equivalent of $1.9B. [...]

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Webinar: Social Talent is the Next Wave of Awesomeness!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Register today for this webinar, in which you will hear from Yvette Cameron, VP and Principal Analyst from Constellation Research, Inc., speak to the trends happening in internal recruitment, retention and mobility processes and how they affect your ability to retain great talent.

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Gamification: It’s About Strategy, Not Luck

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In a recently published report on enterprise gamification, my colleague explores the latest trends in the use of gamification to drive behaviors and effect desired outcomes. I found it inspiring that in this report, one in five early adopters of gamification are HR executives, pointing to the early but strong interest in the benefits derived from people [...]

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