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• Managing Your "Greatest Asset": Talent-Management Software Can Add Consistency to Compensation Programs and Light a Fire Under "Laggards" in Your Workforce

  BNET - 2006-03-22

  Proxicom turned to a Web-based solution of its own: talent management technology from SuccessFactors. The San Mateo, California-based company is one of a growing number - others include Halogen Software, Authoria, Taleo, and Recruitmax - that are introducing sophisticated talent-management software that's much more user-friendly than in the years past.

  Tags: Asset, Talent, Compensation, CFO Publishing Corp., Talent Management, Workforce, Workforce Management, Human Resources

• Better Performance Reporting and Analysis

  BNET - 2006-02-21

  A forward-looking and analytical view - the ability to conduct what-if analyses, for example - goes to the heart of much of what finance and business unit managers need to manage their companies amid increasing competition, regulatory oversight, and higher investor and board expectations. Executives need to be able to...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Performance, Analysis, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Performance Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• What's Wrong With Finance Training: And How Some Companies Are Finding Ways to Make It Work

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Training experts say companies continue to repeat old mistakes. They offer off-the-shelf courses or seminars that aren't aligned with employees' everyday responsibilities. They schedule classroom training when the trainer is available rather than when employees need to enhance their skills. They offer lectures, even though adults generally fare better with...

  Tags: Employee, CFO Publishing Corp., Training, Finance, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

• Hard Choices: How Finance Executives Are Confronting Rising Benefit Costs, the Aging Workforce, Recruiting, and Other Human-Capital Concerns

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  The next decade may bring an unpleasant surprise to many companies: beginning in 2010, 25 million employees will be poised to leave the workforce. For many employers, that will represent a loss of knowledge and skills that will be costly to replace. CFOs are starting to get nervous; 63% are...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Benefit, Recruiting, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources

• Finders Keepers: Turnover Is Expensive, Lowering It Doesn't Have to Be

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Companies that experience high rates of employee turnover will likely find that it's not salary issues that cause workers to walk out the door. Instead, employees are looking for benefits, training, and flexibility. Not only do employers suffer lower productivity when there is a high turnover rate, but it's also...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Turnover, Benefits, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Training And Certification, Human Resources

• Hire Power: Even if You're Not Looking for a Job, a Job May Be Looking for You

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Online job postings may be old hat, but as the market for qualified finance staffers tightens, companies are using the Web in new ways. The goal now is to not just streamline what has long been an arduous manual recruiting process, but to actively court people with the right skills...

  Tags: Job, CFO Publishing Corp., Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• The Retirement Age: Baby Boomers Will Soon Be Leaving the Workforce in Droves, Are You Ready to Replace Them?

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  It's no secret that the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 - the baby boomers - have been driving cultural trends since their infancy, from rock 'n' roll to Rogaine to real estate. But the next boomer trend will likely have the biggest impact on Corporate America yet:...

  Tags: Retirement, Baby Boomer, CFO Publishing Corp., Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

• Hidden Talents: Reducing People to Numbers Is a Sure Way to Miss What Makes Some Individuals Special

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  There's no going back. Having succeeded at helping human resources streamline and automate transactional HR functions such as payroll and benefits enrollment, CFOs are looking to do more. They are hard at work bringing their analytic and quantitative skills to higher-level processes like recruiting, training, and performance review. And surely...

  Tags: Talent, CFO Publishing Corp., Workforce Management, Human Resources

• Measuring Performance in Services: Services Are More Difficult to Measure and Monitor Than Manufacturing Processes, But Executives Can Rein in Variance and Boost Productivity if They Implement Rigorous Metrics

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Faced with stiffening competition, increasingly demanding customers, high labor costs, and, in some markets, slowing growth, service businesses around the world are trying to boost their productivity. But whereas manufacturing businesses can raise it by monitoring and reducing waste and variance in their relatively homogeneous production and distribution processes, service...

  Tags: Monitor, Variance, CFO Publishing Corp., Performance, Manufacturing, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Employment Figures Tell a Tale of Growth

  BNET - 2006-01-06

  Although U.S. employment grew more slowly than expected in December, jobs-related data just issued by the U.S. Department of Labor reveal a solid growth story, according to some economists. December nonfarm payrolls rose by 108,000, with professional and business services, food services, health care, and manufacturing among the sectors that...

  Tags: Food, CFO Publishing Corp., Economist, Figure, Food & Beverage, Recruitment & Selection, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Workforce Management