Talent Management is a hot phrase among HR managers nowadays, and for good reason: companies who effectively manage their talent recruit and keep top talent while training their existing talent to a higher level of competency — resulting in better financial performance. These organizations have more consistent company visions, and a workforce that is more aligned in their mission to achieve that vision. But lofty goals aside, setting up and sticking to a [...]

As the lazy hazy days of August are here, I’d like to give a shout out to some great summer reading from the business realm. The book’s not new, but it’s worth a glance as the software industry is starting to see shades of another (overblown?) bubble — reminiscent of the late 1990′s.

It’s titled Good to Great, by Jim Collins. Published in 1991 and based on a five-year research project, Good to Great [...]

More and more both HR professionals and executives are seeing that strategic talent management processes can make a big difference in achieving the organization’s strategic goals. A recent study from Hackett Research actually quantifies this relationship, stating that organizations can improve earnings by nearly 15% by improving talent management and that typical Fortune 500 companies net nearly $400 million annually by improving strategic workforce planning and other talent management functions.

Kind of nice to see [...]

Recently, leading research firm IDC named Halogen as One of Canada’s 10 Software Companies to Watch. What does that mean to us?

Well, the report highlights software companies that have demonstrated market leadership, exceptional growth and have impacted the software market in North America as a whole in recent years. Halogen was specifically selected from a wide pool of candidates due to the innovative methods used to expand its market reach and its flexibility in [...]