Archive for June, 2010

Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench

by HEATHER MCCULLIGH | Jun 9th, 2010 | Succession Planning |

One of HCI’s recent daily mailings contained a link to an interesting article from Harvard Business Review, called When Growth Stalls, by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever and Seth Verry.

Planning is underway for our fifth annual User Conference, which will take place September 16th and 17th in Ottawa. We recently opened up early bird registration.

With the battle for the Stanley Cup finally underway – and avid hockey fans glued to their TVs – one of the biggest sports stories last week wasn’t in the rink, it was the announcement that Steve Yzerman is leaving the Detroit Red Wings. After 27 years with the organization as a player and executive, he accepted an offer from the Tampa Bay Lighting to be their GM. For the Red Wings, the departure wasn’t a major surprise as he’d nearly accepted a position with Minnesota several months prior.