Opinion

Opinion

Talent management systems

• Your competitors are amassing armies of recruiting chatbots

  AI is the new digital divide. Bots screen résumés in a fraction of the time, and emotion analytics weeds out corporate killjoys. So why rely on humans to make hiring decisions?  Continue Reading

• What the Hawthorne effect reveals about employee experience

  The phenomenon of the Hawthorne effect is used to support ideas about employee needs, including your potential HR technology choices. Here's why you should be wary of that.  Continue Reading

• HR metrics require much more than data

  Data doesn't tell the whole story about employee performance and retention, but more companies plan to use workforce analytics tools to aid their staffing decisions.  Continue Reading

• Recruitment management system + alien life doesn't equal intelligent hiring

  What's a smaller needle in the haystack, finding the best job candidate or discovering what planet hosts intelligent life? A theory on the use of data is argued and debunked.  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and mini-videos signal changes in talent management tools

  Mini-videos, machine learning and blockchain could transform talent management in areas such as training, performance management and recruitment and raise the profile of HR.  Continue Reading

• Align employee performance and strategic workforce planning

  New performance management tools can better connect employees to an organization's overall objectives, provide data for workforce analytics and improve operational excellence.  Continue Reading

• How HR can use the customer 360-degree view concept

  More and more, HR is being told to treat employees like customers. Two experts suggest how you can make that happen by applying customer 360-degree view research tactics.  Continue Reading

• Success lies in strategic talent management, not software

  Companies invest time and money in employees, and they invest in software to manage them. What's not clear is whether technology has really helped improve business.  Continue Reading

• Collaborative learning thrusts HR into vanguard of enterprise social trend

  The HR Technology Conference was rife with examples of companies putting enterprise social networks to good use.  Continue Reading

• IT can add value to enterprise performance management

  Despite the claims of EPM software vendors, IT must get involved in the technical underpinnings of budgeting, forecasting and strategy. An industry expert explains why.  Continue Reading