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Succession Planning: Five Costly Errors to Avoid

This white paper shows you how to avoid five of the most common --- and costly -- errors when embarking on a succession planning initiative. You'll learn: How a lack of alignment between the succession plan and company goals can derail the initiative How to...

Tags: Succession Planning, SumTotal Systems Inc., Leadership, Management

White papers 2009-10-01

Is Carol Bartz a graduate of the Jobs-Ellison School of Management?

Everyone loves a bad-ass, right? The no-nonsense savior of the day who doesn't mince words or tip-toe around feelings but instead just comes in, says what needs to be said and does what needs to be done to get the job done. (I envision Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction herebut...

Tags: Succession Planning, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carol Bartz, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Succession Planning: Rise of the Talent Ecosystem

Succession planning is not a silo. Companies of all sizes and in all industries must reevaluate how succession planning fits within their enterprises. In order to take advantage of new opportunities, avoid the looming talent crisis, and mitigate the risk of untimely departures, companies must extend succession planning across their...

Tags: Succession Planning, Talent, Leadership, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources

White papers 2008-09-01

Additional Resources

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

The just shoot me vacation: Stay tethered; Forget two weeks; Install a fax in your room

The just shoot me vacation: Stay tethered; Forget two weeks; Install a fax in your roomForget that crap...I don't "tether" on evenings and weekends so I sure as hell am not going to do it on vacation. Lay me off... I will find another job! >:(Who should get laid...

Tags: fax

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Top Mortgage Services Company Decreases Turnover and Retains High Performers

The companies of LandAmerica Financial Group (NYSE:LFG) have been completing and protecting the nation's real estate investments for more than 125 years. As LandAmerica's workforce became increasingly distributed, it proved difficult to consistently measure performance, develop, and train employees. LandAmerica required detailed information about employee competencies and skills gaps to...

Tags: Softscape Inc., Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-05-01

Workday update: deep not wide

Workday update: deep not wideWorkday - Much Work to be done Yes - I have seen several presentations of Workday - One does need to dig too deep to realize there are some serious missing components- Workday states - Global at the Core, but they are missing quite a bit...

Tags: Leadership, Benefits, Workday

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Upgrade talent for the economy to come

Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...

Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Talentsoft Talent Management Suite Express Edition 1.1 (Windows)

Talentsoft Talent Management Suite Express is a freeware business software that gives users a comprehensive set of integrated talent management system for human resource manager. Our recruitment module is a simple applicant tracking system solution which automates every phase of the recruitment process. Our performance module is easy to use...

Tags: Talent, Freeware, Microsoft Windows, Talent Management, Talentsoft Technology, Talentsoft Talent Management Suite Express, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-03-10

IBM â€" Move overseas if you want to keep your job

Certainly, it’s an interesting proposal that IBM has put forward to its former employees. According to a ComputerWorld article, “Some of the workers being let go by IBM have a chance to remain with the company â€" if they're willing to move to Brazil, India, China...

Tags: U.S., Job, Salary, IBM Corp., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Steve Jobs: Call it a day.

Steve Jobs: Call it a day.RE: Steve Jobs: call it a dayI wish him well, but he doesn't need to be CEO any longer.There's still room for him in a less stressful 'visionary' role.RE: Steve Jobs: Call it a day.Apple should consider in hiring Bill Gates. :)Steve Jobs: Stay as...

Tags: Strategy, Investment, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CALL IT

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

Jobs to take medical leave; Cook in charge; Will Jobs appear at WWDC?

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that he will take a medical leave until the end of June to focus on his health. In the meantime, chief operating officer Tim Cook right will take over day-to-day operations. The news (Techmeme, Apple statement) is likely to start...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Tim Cook, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helm

Updated: Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday in an open letter that he is being treated for a hormone imbalance that is causing his weight loss. In his letter, Jobs clarified his health issue following yet another round of deathbed rumors. Jobs added that he will remain CEO of Apple....

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Macworld, CEO, Succession Planning Worry, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-05

News to know: IE exploit; Windows Live; Crowdsourcing; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Windows Live drops the ball on support Mary Jo Foley: Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end? Gizmodo: The Definitive Coast-to-Coast...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Macworld Expo, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Apple's Macworld saga and Jobs absence: Leadership signals and succession plans

Steve Jobs absence from Macworld's keynote this year is being taken as a sign. What signal Apple is actually sending is debatable, but some analysts are taking a strong hint that the company is ready to transition leadership. Apple said Tuesday that it will end its relationship...

Tags: Absence, Job, Steve Jobs, Leadership, Health Care, Apple Inc., Succession Plan, Company Line, Piper Jaffray Gene Munster, Munster, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-17

Ten Best Practices for Successful Competency Management

As the foundation of a talent development strategy, your competency model guides the end-to-end management of your organization's talent base - from performance assessments & goal achievement, to training & development, workforce planning, and recruiting. However, as our economy shifts focus to delivering knowledge and services, core competencies become harder...

Tags: Core Competency, Talent, SumTotal Systems, Performance, Best Practice, Competency, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2008-12-09

Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier

Updated: Tony Fadell, the senior vice president in charge of Apple's iPod division, is leaving the company to be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a former Big Blue executive who is being sued by IBM over a non-compete clause. The move statement, first reported by the Wall Street...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., VentureBeat, Blade Servers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Taking the 'H' Out of HR

Taking the 'H' Out of HRand trying to get it back ?The ultimate goal behind self-service has always been in my opinion to solve the issue you are pointing out now.A few years back, HR department was struggling with tons of paper forms and manually entering tons of information in...

Tags: Human Resources, HR Department

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Questioning IT

Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...

Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-18

St Mary's Medical Center Supports a Performance-Driven Culture and Focuses on Overall Strategic Objectives

St. Mary's Medical Center, located in Huntington West Virginia, is Cabell County's largest private employer with more than 2,400 employees. St. Mary's HR team was dealing with thousands of appraisals, compensation adjustments and other HR functions. The end result was a focus on administrative tasks with multiple employees having to...

Tags: Human Resources, Halogen Software Inc., St Mary

Case studies 2008-01-01