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Change Management: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Since BT strategic planning requires a radically different approach, having a strong change management process is essential for success. This report explores both the critical aspects of change...

Skills And Staffing: The Business Process Management Playbook
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. Yet when it comes to growing BPM skills, most...

Last month, I published an update to my 2011 Forrester Wave™ on talent management because the human resource management (HRM) market has experienced tremendous consolidation and many top-rated...

For Christmas, my daughter Sarah gave me a book of photos of last summer’s family trip to Cape Cod. Each page was beautifully designed with descriptions of the events captured in the photos:...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

Today’s top career sites do more than list jobs available. The best ones give a glimpse of what it’s like to work at the company, communicate the company values, and introduce the...
The data shows that 70% of corporate change efforts either totally fail, have lukewarm results, or the change never becomes an integral part of the company culture. As I talk to clients about their...
Continuous Improvement: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the continuous improvement component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will help application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros), CIOs, and their HR...

Change Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
It's often said, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Nowhere in the world of enterprise IT is this adage more fitting than in social business and collaboration. For two...

Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...
Change Management: The Innovation Playbook
Companies that don't innovate risk becoming marginalized, and CIOs are often expected to help accelerate innovation within their firms. Key to success in this role is creating and sustaining an...

Strategic Plan: The Human Resource Management Playbook
Companies need a human resource management (HRM) strategy that focuses on finding and developing successful employees who meet company goals and supporting them not only with a traditional...
My colleagues and I talk often about social collaboration and its tepid adoption. The fact is that it’s hard to get employees to use a tool unless they see a real use for it. This is certainly...
I’m thrilled to see “people” talked about as a major focus of business. Company executives recognize that people are critical to sustainable organizational growth. Talent is now a...
Processes: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the processes component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, enables application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals, CIOs, and their HR business partners to...