Talent Management
13 Stories
Banyan Tree invests $1M in talent management
News Singapore hotels and resorts operator employs SAP in bid to better nurture and manage talent pool of over 10,000 staff, according to company executives.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management, Recruiting, Banyan Systems, Database, SAP AG, Talent Management, Human Resources Inc., Training, Bangkok
Need a job? Don't use a Mac
News Software at company fielding job applications doesn't support Mac browsers, leaving some prospective employees in the lurch.
Tags: Software, Operating systems, Mac OS, Web browsers
Contact center by phone still popular in Asia
News Calling contact center still preferred method for Asian customers seeking tech help, even with emergence of new media tools, says market specialist.
Tags: Customer support, Customer resource management (CRM), Business development/management, Contact Center, Nagi Kasinadhuni, Datacraft/Dimension Data, Toni Ruotanen, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Asia
Talent management: How to invest in your workforce
News An exclusive study from IBM and Human Capital Institute finds nonprofits and midsize companies coming up short in employee management.
Tags: Human resources, Business development/management, Business, Talent Management, Workforce, Human Resources, Washington, financial, researcher, talent
SuccessFactors shows a path to Enterprise 2.0
News SuccessFactors has announced the latest enhancements to its service with the release of ULTRA.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Searching for the next Salesforce
Insight Taleo is among a promising crop of CRM start-ups. But can any of them upstage the groundbreaking subscription-software company?
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Web services
Bidding Yahoo adieu
News An exodus of high-profile, innovative managers leaves a leadership vacuum, and troubling implications for Yahoo's future.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., co-founder, Yahoo Search, Jerry Yang, shareholder
War looms over global tech talent
News A global war for technology talent is looming that will lead to severe skills shortages and rising salaries, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tags: Recruiting, Executive recruiting
Is SAP ready to provide SaaS?
News Not quite yet, analysts say, noting that even if it is, Asian businesses aren't ready to accept software-as-a-service as the new delivery platform.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Sales force automation, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Customer resource management (CRM), Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, Business Process, client-server, software, Human Resources
Veritas snags two more Oracle executives
News The software company hired two executives from Oracle, the No 1 maker of database software, a little more than three months after luring chief executive Gary Bloom from the company.
Experts say majority of B2B firms to fail in two years
News The vast majority of business-to-business virtual marketplaces--and the independent companies that host them--will fail within two years.
Why SingTel lost HKT bid
News After weeks of haggling for a merger with Hong Kong's largest telecommunications company Cable & Wireless HKT, Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd's (PCCW) quick win over SingTel's rival bid is largely seen as political, analysts said.
Japanese VC investing soars, but still lags US
News Ikuo Nishioka has always been a man with a mission. Nishioka, who retired as Intel Japan chairman last year after serving as its CEO since 1992, was known as the "e-mail messiah" because he proselytized about the benefits of electronic communication.
