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What smart leaders know about talent management and strategy
Smart leaders know that strategic hiring and deployment of their top talent are essential to managing risk, achieving business outcomes and ensuring future sustainability. It's the strength of your people that drives the rise or fall of your business-especially in hard times.

The Knives Your Sales People Should Have
In December, I wrote a post titled Give Your Sales People All The Knives. While I let you draw whatever conclusions you wanted from the post, I thought I’d follow through and give you a little more detail about what I meant by the statement.
But They're Our BEST Customer!
A strong relationship with a customer is the Holy Grail we all seek. After all, once you have a Win/Win relationship, both businesses profit, right? Sometimes, but not always.
Connecting with your employees through Social Media
Today was an awesome day! It started off with my VP greeting me at the door and showing his appreciation for my efforts in 2008. Next, it was my Director pointing out the main successes that were achieved and finally I had the opportunity to show my gratitude to my staff. What a great way to connect with your employees and build sincere relationships by recognizing them for their contribution to the overall success of the corporation. Thanks to the organizing committee for pulling off a great “Employee Appreciation” day.
Is Your Organization Effectively Deploying the Human Capital It Needs to Compete?
Most organizations understand that effective management and deployment of assets can mean the difference between success and failure. But many organizations fail to consider their most critical asset – human capital. A recent study by McKinsey & Company revealed that “A” performers tend to be 50-100% more productive than “C” performers. Clearly, identifying the “A” performers can enhance an organization’s performance. So, how does an employer identify the “A” performers, and once identified, how does an employer retain them?

When to Fold ‘Em
I should get a reaction here; after all I’m the guy who keeps saying “never quit,” right? Let’s not call it quitting then; let’s call it a “tactical re-deployment!” Just to make things a little more complicated, I’ve also traditionally been the guy who says not to listen to the detractors when they’re telling you to lay down. Today I’m going contrarian on that view as well.

Boosting Retail Sales with Digital Signage, Emerging Technologies
Retailers of all sizes look for the better edge to lower costs, reach customers and establish relationships with consumers. Digital signage not only enables all of this but it enhances the strength of the messages with eye-catching video content. Here's a guide for content developers, system integrators and retail merchandising/marketing management.

Business Travel: What If Your Business Travel Is a 6 Month Deployment to Iraq?
We all consider Business Travel to mean one thing: A Corporate Traveler. But what if your business travel includes packing fatigues and army boots? What if your business travel includes packing a sea bag for a trip to the "Med"?

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5.0 Shell Foundation's experience on the ground: Enterprise solutions to poverty
Below we illustrate how the four elements of our approach – financial viability, scaleability, deployment of business DNA and harnessing of corporate value-creating assets – are present in and add value to what we do as a corporate foundation. We draw in detail in the main text on material from our Energise and Breathing Space programmes which address the energy and poverty challenge. We also refer extensively to other activities of ours in the footnotes and in Annex 2.
When to Fold ‘Em
I should get a reaction here; after all I’m the guy who keeps saying “never quit,” right? Let’s not call it quitting then; let’s call it a “tactical re-deployment!” Just to make things a little more complicated, I’ve also traditionally been the guy who says not to listen to the detractors when they’re telling you to lay down. Today I’m going contrarian on that view as well.

Is Your Organization Effectively Deploying the Human Capital It Needs to Compete?
Most organizations understand that effective management and deployment of assets can mean the difference between success and failure. But many organizations fail to consider their most critical asset – human capital. A recent study by McKinsey & Company revealed that “A” performers tend to be 50-100% more productive than “C” performers. Clearly, identifying the “A” performers can enhance an organization’s performance. So, how does an employer identify the “A” performers, and once identified, how does an employer retain them?

Applying TQM to Recruitment Convergence
The application of total quality management tools and philosophies (6 Sigma) to areas such as airline safety (takeoffs/landings)has reduced the defect rate to 3.4 per million. In contrast the defect rate in typical employment, selection and deployment runs at around 45 per 100. This article explores how the application of TQM thinking and the use of "best of breed" tools and systems bring dramatic improvements in the following areas: - - reducing unwanted turnover - weak succession planning - losing top talent - matching the right people to the wrong jobs - training the wrong personnel
The Top Three Sales Messaging Deployment Blunders and What to Do Instead!
You’ve spent weeks painstakingly putting together a great sales messaging program designed to give your company a significant competitive advantage and boost revenues and market share. Now it’s ready to launch, the sales staff is waiting…but is it blunder-proof? Badly fumbling the deployment of sales messaging is the equivalent of putting a cake in the oven to bake and forgetting to turn the oven on. Learn about three of the most common mistakes companies make in releasing a sales messaging program and what they can do to correct or avoid them.
What smart leaders know about talent management and strategy
Smart leaders know that strategic hiring and deployment of their top talent are essential to managing risk, achieving business outcomes and ensuring future sustainability. It's the strength of your people that drives the rise or fall of your business-especially in hard times.

Choosing Employee Assessments - Hand Scoring by Experts Still Safeguards Validity & ROI!
Employee assessments are everywhere. With a wealth of employee assessments emerging, the right assessment can seem as elusive as the proverbial "needle in a haystack," yet absolutely worth the diligent hunt. Best practices deployment in this specific arena increases human capital ROI by tenfold plus. The bottom line results of assessments gone right is not contested, and we stand firm that every candidate hired, trained or promoted without this proper intelligence is a profit opportunity missed. And coming from staunch advocates of progressive technology... computers are no replacement for hand scoring. A five criteria process, the following roadmap guarantees ROI and avoids common pitfalls.

The Importance of Relevance in Intranet Communications
The desire to leverage intranet communications is one of the principal reasons for intranet deployment in a wide range of companies. However, many intranet platforms do not allow companies to adjust communications permissions, or the messages are general - this lack of relevance to the end user significantly reduces the engagement generated from intranets, and lowers the value of the communication.
The Power of Compound Interest in a Globalized Economy
Smart investors have always looked to international markets for specific opportunities related to diversification, globalization, and efficiencies resulting from deployment of information technology to lower cost labor markets around the globe, suggests Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post as it reveals the power of compound growth in a globalized economy and that investing in emerging international markets is far more compelling now than in the past.
SAP, ORACLE And The CLOUD….
Cloud computing market is growing up and the race is on for the larger organizations to consolidate and broaden thin cloud portfolio. It signals, that the acquisition targets are going to be Talent Management / HRMS SaaS vendors. It also implies the realization that cloud deployment will be the predominant approach.
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