It's Time For Talent Management To Grow Up!

andy.gebavi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:20:40 GMT

How "Mature" Are Your Organization's Talent Management Processes?

Many organizations we engage with view Talent Management like it's some kind of exotic new discipline. The reality is that the functions usually associated with Talent Management (Recruitment, Performance Management, Learning and Development, Career Planning, Workforce Planning, Succession Management, Compensation) have been around for a long time. New technologies are allowing organizations to tie all these processes together and get true visibility into the business impacts of these functions.

We can usually tell how "grown up" our client's are by asking some key questions around the following areas for each of their Talent Management processes:

What are the business drivers of the process? We're often met with a blank stare here.
How frequently do you perform the process? Once per year or is it a constant, ongoing process?
How standardized is the process across your organization?
What kind of visibility does the process provide into key measures and organizational trends?
Who owns the process? HR or the business - or both?
What technologies support the process? Technology is an enabler of increased standardization, visibility, and process integration
How integrated is the process with other talent management processes?
What metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness and business impacts of your process? Often, another blank stare here.

Obviously, in depth analysis is required to determine how to improve your organization's processes. But by asking key questions you can learn quite a bit about where your organization is now, and where you want it to be in 1, 3, 5 or 10 years.

So what is your organization? Toddler? Kindergartener? Adolescent? Adult?

SuccessFactors IPO's During a Quiet Week....Hmmm

andy.gebavi — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:20:04 GMT

Below is an article from the Associated Press on SuccessFactor's IPO today. One has to wonder why they chose such a quiet market week to IPO if they are looking to make a splash. It looks like the shares opened at the top of their range though at $10 and Lars Delgard rang the opening bell. Their stock symbol is SFSF. Any opinions out there on the short or long term prospects for the stock? It would be nice to hear from some actual customers of SuccessFactors rather than the usual analyst/vendor crowd.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071119/ipo_spotlight_successfactors_inc.html?.v=2

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It's Time For Talent Management To Grow Up!

SuccessFactors IPO's During a Quiet Week....Hmmm