On Monday, May 13 just over 100 Executives from the HR Service and Technology space got together in San Francisco for the inaugural InfluenceHR Symposium. I created the event based on continued questions from many of the Executives that ended up being in the room. They were asking for access to real actionable content [...]
2013 #hrwins Announced!
This week we announced the 2013 #hrwins. #hrwins is the first ever complete look at truly innovative HR Technology products across all categories. Last year one of the vendors I evaluated called it a “Celebration of Innovation”. I think that’s fitting. Everything we do here is rooted in the belief that when HR Technology [...]
Smart Money Is On SmartRecruiters
Last week I had the pleasure of spending some time with SmartRecruiters in their San Francisco Headquarters. I was there for their most recent Smartup, a series of monthly panel discussions on HR and Recruiting Innovation. I got much more than I bargained for. Before the panel started I was given an impromptu briefing by [...]
The KeyNote Alone Is Worth The Trip To InfluenceHR
I’m so excited about the KeyNote presentation we’ve secured for InfluenceHR. Mark Organ is the person credited with creating marketing automation. He was the founding CEO of Eloqua and disrupted the B2B market, putting the technology and the concepts we all manage to today on the map. He has agreed to talk to us about [...]
#hrwins Trend Report: Are New Video Interviewing Tech Firms a Day Late and A Dollar Short?
One of the trends that emerged through the 120+ #hrwins briefings was the emergence of so many video interviewing solutions. Three years ago there were 2 or 3 vendors to speak of. Today there are at least 10 firms providing video interviewing capabilities to the marketplace. New ones are still popping up on our radar. [...]
2012 #hrwins HR Companies To Watch Vendor Report: Ceridian Dayforce
When I started #hrwins I hoped to find someone impacting core HR processes for the Mid-Market. That’s where most of the employment is in the US. HR Technology helping with true day-to-day challenges is innovation that really matters. We like to get all excited about the shiny new trends – Social, Mobile, Big Data, etc., [...]
One of These Things Is Not Like The Others, But They All Look The Same
As I went through the #hrwins process this year, looking at more than 120 HR Tech Vendors, the lack of differentiation within and even across segments was incredible to me. It’s still a huge challenge in our space. Vendors need to get better at differentiation, but what the market needs is HONEST DIFFERENTIATION. Let me [...]
