We are thrilled to unveil our new video promotion of the 2010 HR Top Product award winner, Aquire’s InSight for Workforce Analytics. Our marketing team has been working diligently to give you a peek of how InSight will turn piles of raw data into actionable analytics for leaders.

Our tool allows professionals to…

• Analyze trends at every level of the organization
• Know where your talent is headed and the reason why
• Slice and dice analytics to get to the heart of any workforce problem
• And, create workforce reports you need when you need them

So, take a look and let us know what you think. And afterwards, grab the free white paper below.

Gary Hamel, management guru and author, delivered an amazing presentation at the HCI Human Capital Summit. He talked about how little innovation has occurred in management methodology over the last several years. Hamel asked the question, “What innovations of management are just out of our vision right now?” Then he urged, “We need to look for it. We are really due for some change.” He presented many examples of great management innovation. His Harvard Business Review papers are chock full of these case studies. read more »

I cannot be accused of any “bah, humbug.” I like holidays too much for that. What I mean when I say “keep tradition in the holidays and not in the workplace” is similar to the adage of “watch out for sacred cows at work.” Traditions are the things we do at home during the holidays because we have always done them that way. Our Grandma always made chili for New Year’s Eve and, so, we ALWAYS had chili for New Year’s Eve. read more »

At the recent SHRM Global HR conference, W. Chan Kim spoke as a keynote. He is the co-author of The Blue Ocean Strategy . This is an interesting book that I read a few years ago. Its subtitle was very interesting to me, too, How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. That will be fodder for another blog some day. read more »