Addressing shared HR service challenges

With public sector budget cuts still on the cards and an ever-increasing focus being placed on generating efficiency savings, it is surprising perhaps that more public authorities have not opted to go down the shared services route. But a recent survey that we commissioned among 100 UK public sector representatives from functions such as HR, […]

CEO Insight: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff – ‘The HCM software old guard can’t keep up’

SAP and Oracle’s respective moves to buy up human capital management software firms is not going to help them and just sends out confusing messages to the market. This is the typically robust claim made by Marc Benioff, the outspoken chief executive of Software-as-a-Service-based customer relationship management firm, Salesforce.com, which is likewise starting to position itself […]

Cloud becomes the default for SAP’s HR applications

Since purchasing SuccessFactors, SAP has designated Software-as-a-Service as its default mode of delivering HR applications. The enterprise applications vendor has already moved its talent management software into maintenance mode, although it still plans to support the modules until 2020. It also intends to provide customers with selective enhancements over that period.   As for its […]

CEO Insight: SuccessFactors’ Lars Dalgaard on new owner, SAP

For the last couple of years, SuccessFactors‘ chief executive Lars Dalgaard has used a slide in his presentations that picks out the headlines in German newspapers reporting when his firm won a major Software-as-a-Service-based human capital management contract at Siemens out from under the corporate nose of SAP.   It’s a slide that we can assume won’t be getting […]

CEO Insight: LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner on the site’s recruitment ambitions

In the wake of much consolidation in the HR applications space, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the world’s most popular HR system in the space of online recruitment anyway is, in fact, LinkedIn. And if LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner gets his way, this is something that more and more […]

Analysis: Oracle’s Taleo buy marks tipping point in talent management sector

Oracle’s takeover of Taleo yesterday could mark a tipping point in the evolution of the talent management software sector, analysts believe. The story so far is this: SAP buys Software-as-a-Service vendor, SuccessFactors, to beef up its next generation human capital and talent management offerings.   Newcomer Workday, which is also an SaaS provider, readies itself […]

Remote working: How to get started

Over the last ten years remote working has been steadily gaining a foothold in the UK workplace, changing the nature of work and the daily commute. For many businesses, it now also forms a key part of their contingency plans, enabling employees to carry on working should unexpected or even expected events such as the […]

Oracle aims to up SaaS HCM credentials with Taleo swoop

If HR directors ever felt that they were being neglected by the software industry, those days should now be well and truly over. Instead there is a big old war brewing to try and woo them over to the next generation of human capital management applications.   And to this end, Oracle swooped on Taleo […]

Blog: Why learning should never end

I will be glad when this is over. I will never have to study again". That was a statement from my daughter during finals week in her senior year of college at Penn State. She sounded worn out.   As I listened on the other end of the phone, I looked at my watch and […]

Workers more ‘stressed and insecure’ than in Queen’s coronation year

In the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, it appears that, despite higher levels of personal prosperity, workers are more stressed and more insecure than they were 60 years ago. According to a special Work Audit report published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to explore how the world of work in the […]

London 2012: Civil servants ordered to work from home during Olympics

Staff across Whitehall will be forced to work from home during the Olympics and Paralympics Games in order to ease the pressure on London’s public transport network. Civil servants will be ordered not to commute to work for up to seven weeks to prevent the public transport network in the capital from becoming over-congested. Operation […]

Blog: Is there a place for QR codes in recruitment?

As digital technology continues to engrain itself in our day to day lives, we’ve been increasingly looking at how we can reach our candidates through these new channels. It seems that as quickly as organisations get comfortable with one communications channel, another one springs up!   As specialist online recruiters, it’s our job to help […]

Blog: Question for 2102 – why would someone work for you?

As we enter the doors of 2012, the prognosticators have all given their respective thoughts on what is coming into focus for the year. These are all great readings, but if you have survived these past few years of economic turmoil (and the aftermath), you know that, really, who knows?   All organizations have basically […]

Salesforce to Rypple gamification and social media out into HCM space

Just before Christmas, Salesforce.com made a move that was either very surprising or totally predictable, depending on your interpretation of events. The move in question was the decision to acquire Toronto-based HR system provider, Rypple. This was a surprise to the extent that Salesforce.com’s chief executive Marc Benioff had previously been resolute in his intent […]

Talent Spot: Helene Speight, head of HR at Endava

“My experience on ‘The Apprentice’ didn’t teach me anything about business, but it did teach me about the media and it also taught me a lot about myself,” says Helene Speight, group head of talent management at nearshore IT outsourcing services provider, Endava. And having self-awareness and an understanding of one’s own strengths and weaknesses […]

Salesforce.com follows SAP into Cloud HCM market

Following on from last week’s SAP acquisition of SuccessFactors, customer management specialist Salesforce.com has also gone Christmas shopping, and with what looks like a similar idea in mind. Its target is Toronto-based Rypple, which like SuccessFactors is a player in the HCM sector. Unlike SuccessFactors, however, Rypple is a 2008 start up business with just […]

Gamification: How to play ball with staff engagement

Engaged employees are more effective and innovative because they are showing their true selves at work. Involvement is key to engagement and games have always epitomised that. So it stands to reason that an effective route to employee engagement is to encourage people to play games.   In our recent international executive survey, which explored […]

Case Study: Rentokil Initial introduces “cohesion” by integrating HR processes

Rentokil Initial has automated and integrated its HR processes in a bid to make them more cohesive as part of a broader company-wide initiative to standardise administrative and operational procedures. The pest control and cleaning specialist is a £2.5 billion global organisation that employs an international workforce of 66,000. But, according to group HR operations […]

Cloud TV: SuccessFactors’ Paul Roberts on HCM and the cloud

At this year’s Business Cloud Summit, Neil Davey, editor of HRZone’s sister site, myCustomer.com, sat down to mull over cloud computing, HCM and business execution with Paul Roberts, Software-as-a-Service vendor SuccessFactors’ country manager for the UK and Ireland.

Four-year central government HR framework deal goes to Logica

Responsibility for providing transactional HR, payroll and finance services to central government has been handed to Logica under a four-year framework contract valued at between £50m and £500m. Marie-Helene Durif, head of sourcing and category management at the Government Procurement Service, said: "The award of this contract is another milestone in the government’s strategy to […]