Talent Management

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Increasingly talent management processes and particularly talent development are being infused, if you will, with data from many sources:  external, pulse surveys, internal HRIS systems and still others.     With administrative processes, there are success stories emerging in using Machine Learning and AI.    For selection and development decision support, there are many attempts, promotions and "hype" but real results are not in evidence

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Shortages for quality people, rather than being highly variable, are now affecting nearly every industry and type of worker with few exceptions.  From our experience in talking with dozens of HR/Talent organizations across the US each week, in figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and in a number of articles in the Wall Street Journal in the last 3 months, like today's article,  In this job market, Quitters are Winning,   the talent shortage  (and from another perspective, Talent War) is here and here to stay.

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As we enter 2016,  you hear story after story about the internet of things, the union of ecommerce with digital intelligence, cognitive computing and the cognitive business.  Even Warren Buffet has got into the act, investing billions in IBM in the last year or so, believing in their main focus on it.  Cognitive, of course, in this sense has to do with non- humans (businesses, organizations, machines, systems… ) understanding, reasoning and learning. A key aspect of this is what  getting access to the 80% of data that is "

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What  does people optimization entail? In some of our discussions and feedback on our website, we've received comments along the lines, "You can't optimize people..." To which our response is, REALLY!  Further, we say, if you are a manager over a group of people and you don't have a mindset where you are consciously trying get the most from or make the most of the productivity of your people, then you are probably a bad manager.

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"The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated the costs to replace an employee to be approximately 1/3 their annual salary; but when you start looking at the impact of hiring the wrong employee and having to replace them, some studies say 2.5 times annual earnings, some 4 times and some even higher." AGILEdge