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Report:Effective Business Change Management Requires More Than A Wait-And-See Attitude

Business change management is a top corporate challenge. Changing people's beliefs and behaviors is demanding and difficult work; succeeding in the face of resistance, decreased productivity,...

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Blog:An Active Year In Strategic Talent Management And More To Come In 2011

At Forrester, we think of strategic talent management as made up of four pillars: Recruiting, Performance (including succession and career development), Learning, and Compensation, which sit on top...

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Blog:IBM Announces Plans To Acquire Kenexa, A Talent Software And Services Company

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...

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Blog:Lessons From A Photo Book

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:...

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Blog:Market Moves Toward Integrated Performance And Learning

I attended the Taleo customer conference last week in Chicago where CEO Michael Gregoire in his opening session speech boasted about Taleo’s recent acquisition of Learn.com, a $26...

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Blog:Use Social Media To Drive More Learning

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...

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Report:To Stay Competitive, Nurture A Culture Of Innovation

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...

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Blog:Why Do So Many Change Management Initiatives Fail?

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...

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Blog:Company Career Sites Engage Candidates Early In The Recruiting Process

  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...

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Blog:Taleo Makes Strategic Jobpartners Acquisition To Boost Its European Presence

Today Taleo announced the acquisition of privately-held, Europe-based Jobpartners for $38 million (€25 million) in cash. With this acquisition, Taleo strengthens its European presence in...

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Blog:Oracle Throws In The Towel And Acquires A Cloud Talent Management Vendor

The rumor circulating for the past few weeks has now been confirmed: Oracle is buying Taleo, a global talent management vendor, for $1.9 billion. This is just another — albeit important —...

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Blog:SAP Plans To Acquire SuccessFactors: A Major Move In The Talent Management Field

ERP vendors are showing strong interest in the HRM SaaS market. They are either attempting to build a solution (as Oracle is doing with Fusion) or looking to acquire HRM functionality (as SAP is...

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Blog:Change Management: A Critical Component Of Any New Business Process

Think of how often you hear the term change management in relation to a new business process. What’s your reaction? Is it “More of that high level stuff that sounds good, but . . .”...

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Blog:New HR Analytics Research Focuses On Improving The Talent Management Processes

Boris Evelson and I have published research entitled “Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes.” The premise: HR analytics have taken on new importance as companies work to find,...

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Blog:"Empowered" Supports Employee-Generated Content

Forrester has a new book coming out soon entitled Empowered written by two Forrester analysts. Its focus is on the power of social technologies in the hands of the general public and what this means...

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Blog:Avoid The 70% Failure Rate Of Change Management Initiatives

You read that number right: seventy percent, a dramatically high rate of failure. It could happen to you unless you take into account that any business process change is strongly related to personal...

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Report:Communicate And Manage Change For The BT Strategic Planning Process

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...

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Blog:A Gem of a Deal: SuccessFactors and Plateau Come Together

A major announcement in the human capital management (HCM) world occurred on April 26, 2011. SuccessFactors, a top vendor in performance management, announced its intention to purchase Plateau...

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Blog:Making Change Management Work: Three Practitioners Offer Some Guidance

Change management from the people perspective is too often a forgotten component of business process transformation. Organizations focus on getting the new processes right and putting technology...

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Blog:The Millennials' Journey Into Adulthood

A New York Times article, “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” written last summer has stayed with me as I continue to talk with clients about the Millennials and how they approach work...

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Report:Social Business And Collaboration Success Hinges On Effective Change Management

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...

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Blog:Corporate Mentoring Benefits Employee Development

In this podcast Claire covers the three most common types of relationships in workplace mentoring and goes on to discuss the benefits to the mentor, mentee, and organization. She cites two major...