Post Author: Bob Maller
November 3, 2009
After spending 4 days at Workday Rising, tongue still a bit red from the vast amounts of Kool-Aid being digested, it’s time to report what we heard, saw, and felt at Workday’s 3rd annual user conference.
First, some quick facts about Workday, reported by CEO and Chief Customer Advocate, Dave Duffield:
• Current Number of Customers (coming into the conference): 104
• Workday Rising 2009 Attendees: 161 people from 65 customers; 75 from partners; 140 from prospects, deftly named “future customers”; 130 Workday employees
• Current Workday employee count: 390
• Dave’s goal: “have the happiest customers on the planet”
• Dave’s conference objectives. Attendees should leave feeling:
o “My company made a fabulous choice”
o “Workday is delivering exceptional service and trying to improve”
o “Workday listens to our feedback”
o “I can be part of a revolution!”
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Post Author: Rob Young
October 27, 2009
During his keynote to the Workday Rising conference last week (www.workdayrising.com), the partner for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group, R “Ray” Wang (www.twitter.com/rwang0), picked up on part of Collaborative Solutions’ implementation philosophy. Our approach to minimize time to value and fully utilize consumer-oriented web native software supports more rapid implementation timelines with less up-front and maintenance costs. Ray’s comments led me to reflect on the changes in technology and work environments.
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Post Author: Bob Maller
October 8, 2009
We see it every day as we work with our clients. They embrace the need for a true talent management system. They see the value in an ATS and recruiting system that will give them all the data they would ever need about a candidate. Over time, however, the word “recruit” has became synonymous with “assess,” “track,” or “evaluate.” More time has been focused on collecting data, assessing the candidates, matching skills to needs (all very important tasks, mind you), but less time has been spent on actually recruiting these talented individuals. The task of selling these candidates on the company has often times fallen through the cracks.
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