by Ian T | Nov 15, 2022 | Contingent Workforce Staffing
} 5 minute read There are many types of partner relationship open to companies looking to source talent. The talent industry is awash with three letter acronymns to describe the various flavours—MSP, RPO, PPO, EoR… Master Vendor is another option. But what is it, and...
by Ian T | Sep 2, 2022 | cloud computing
Don’t get left behind. Experience how cloud platforms are engineering digital transformation The birth of cloud computing Google has a deserving reputation for being an innovative company. Partly, that innovation comes from giving their people room to explore their...
by Ian T | Aug 30, 2022 | Data Driven Decision Making, Data Integration, Data Management, Data-Driven Culture, Digital Ecosystem, Digital Platform, Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation Platform, Digital Transformation Software, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Systems, Uncategorized
Most companies today don’t have their organizational DNA in a re-usable digital format. Why does it matter? Here’s why. Your organizational DNA describes your business in data You can describe every organization through the data it stores about itself, provided it...
by Ian T | Jul 21, 2022 | Digital Transformation
Over the past half a dozen years, technologists have discussed little else than digital transformation. It has created boardroom roles (Chief Digital Officer), spawned countless projects, and resulted in a multi-billion dollar industry for management and technology...
by Ian T | Jul 12, 2022 | Contingent Workforce Staffing, Recruitment, Uncategorized
The alarm rings. Another early morning start to a Monday work day. Instant thought: “Why am I doing this?” And—”Is my job truly worth the effort?” Are you in the wrong role, or just working for the wrong company? We all have an idea of why it...
by Ian T | Jun 24, 2022 | Business Models, Change Management
Some thought the pandemic would come and go, expecting business as usual to return soon after. That hasn’t happened. So, is it now a question of talent leaders learning to live with it and designing a resilient on-demand talent agenda? Living with change Talent...
by Ian T | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
More and more companies are moving to hybrid working, not as a well thought out plan, but as an outcome of the pandemic. What does it mean for HR leaders caught in the cross-hairs between workers seeking change, and management teams with their heads in the sand? It...
by Ian T | Feb 22, 2022 | Business Models, Recruitment
2021 was the Year of the Great Resignation as described by Professor Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University who predicted that the end of the COVID pandemic would see a large number of people leaving their jobs as life returned to a “new normal.” By April,...
by Ian T | Dec 14, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Change Management, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Strategy
Ian C. Tomlin serves as Chief Marketing Officer for USTECH SOLUTIONS, INC. Follow him on LinkedIn. Is it worth investing time and money (independently or with the help of an agency) into getting your story straight? Here’s my perspective as the chief executive of a...
by Ian T | Nov 4, 2021 | Business Models, Recruitment
Because your employees are people too As industries go, recruitment is one of those disciplines of commerce that has felt the biggest brunt of economic impacts resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic. It rewired how many people think about work. The pandemic led...
by Ian T | Sep 24, 2021 | Recruitment
4-minute read Recruitment Process Outsourcers (RPOs) are companies that outsource the recruitment function for employers. Often, RPO outsourcing partners will bring onboard a dedicated on-premise team to fulfill recruiting activities; hopefully possessing a heady...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Business Intelligence, Recruitment
3-minute read Includes FIVE of the best ways to source STEM talent. You’re not alone—It’s not easy to find STEM talent Roles in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—or ‘STEM’ for short—are unquestionably the most challenging roles for organizations to...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read What types of things should you be reading to broaden your knowledge on business subjects with an aim of progressing your career opportunities? Update your reading list here! Ever notice the back wall? We’ve all been on a Skype, Zoom or Teams web...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
3-minute read People pay attention to brands in their work-life, not just as consumers. To attract the best talent, your brand story (powered by modern social media) can equip you with everything you need to work. Your brand is your best weapon to source talent The...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
3-minute read Chatbots are fast becoming key workers in workforce recruitment and management, and this is why How we choose to communicate changes over time Remember when people used to pick up a phone receiver to make a call? That era has well and truly been lost to...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
2-minute read Every aspect of business activity has been touched by digital transformation. What has it meant for the talent discipline so far? And what happens next? The digitalization story so far… Think back a couple of years and you’d probably not notice a great...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read Adapting the talent status quo It’s one of the least talked about subjects in the discipline of business management, but the fact is some of the more important improvements to the way an organization functions simply don’t happen because of the way...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read Artificial Intelligence (i.e. intelligence demonstrated by machines rather than humans) is the most Not a new story, but a news story AI isn’t all that new: it goes way back to the 1950s when Alan Turing invested in tests based on natural language...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read Hiring Managers are turning to Statement-of-Work contracts to maximize their job outcomes. Why? And what are the implications of adopting them in your talent strategy? Statement-of-Work contracts place a focus on work outcomes, not hours worked A...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
3-minute read As a Talent Leader, how do you fix it? The challenge of filling vacancies with the best fit talent by harnessing ALL of the available channels to talent? Some say Total Talent Management is the solution. But if that’s the case, why are many organizations...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
3-minute read ‘Total Talent Management’ has become a buzzword in the post-lockdown economy. What exactly is it? And how does it equip your organization to create a flexible workforce? Going ‘Total’ on Talent Total Talent Management (TTM) is a human capital management...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read The impact of the pandemic on businesses has been a newsworthy item for almost a decade. What will its legacy be for Talent Leaders? Here are five big takeaways: #1 A flexible workforce becomes business-as-usual Employing a full-time workforce was the...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
4-minute read Facts on the impacts of COVID-19 on the world of work Pandemic-related job losses around the world The 2020 pandemic is destroying livelihoods around the globe. According to the United Nations Labor Agency some 1.6 billion people employed in the informal...
by Ian T | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
6-minute read The advantages to your business of moving to a flexible home workforce—and the mid-term challenges facing talent leaders in 2021 How a Pandemic Changed the World of Work COVID-19 proved to be an unstoppable juggernaut in 2020 and the lock-down measures...
by Ian T | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Computer coders, digital marketers, accountants, leaders of tech startups, management consultants, market researchers, analysts—just some of the roles that long term home workers hold. These are the roles of just some of the community of people I work with on a daily...
by Ian T | Dec 15, 2020 | Hyper Automation
Does your website or e-commerce shop integrate with your back-office systems and processes? If not, you could be facing an unnecessarily high cost of sale. A modern ‘glueware platform’ might just be the answer. It binds your front-of-house into your back-office...
by Ian T | Dec 15, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
How can your humans benefit from digital assistants? In this article we explore whether businesses can live in harmony with (or, indeed, live without) robots. According to McKinsey Global Institute, ‘While less than 5 percent of all occupations can be automated...
by Ian T | Dec 15, 2020 | Data-Driven Culture
We live in a data driven business world. How do you tap into yours? It’s thought Jeff Bezos was the first person to use the term Innovation Value Management (IVM) to describe data as a business asset based on its contributory value. If it wasn’t Jeff, then it was...
by Ian T | Dec 14, 2020 | Digital Transformation Platform
According to the latest thinking by Gartner, DevOps teams are about to get displaced in the enterprise by FUSION teams. Many firms pursuing distributed delivery are using “fusion teams” to bring together IT and business employees to develop digital solutions. As...
by Ian T | Dec 14, 2020 | Digital Platform
How business are set to become innovation factories in 2021 2021—The Year of Digital Platforms In its 2019 FutureScale outlook focusing on ‘Digital Supremacy’ IDC argued that operating as a software-driven “digital innovation factory” will be at the core...
by Ian T | Dec 14, 2020 | Software Development
Agile software development has been around for a while now. Discover how low-code and no-code software development tools are transforming the discipline of agile development. The challenges of developing software applications A level of trial and error can be expected...
by Ian T | Dec 8, 2020 | Digital Transformation
The opportunity for machine learning in your enterprise Machine learning is a genre of computing formed around computer programs able to learn for themselves without being explicitly programmed. It’s been around for decades, but only in the last few years has it...
by Ian T | Dec 8, 2020 | Hyper Automation
HYPER-AUTOMATION describes a step change in productivity and output achieved by applying modern digital technologies to supercharge business processes. The term has found favor in 2020 to describe enterprise initiatives to harness the best available methods and tools...
by Ian T | Dec 8, 2020 | Digital Transformation Platform
Harnessing new digital technologies to create more customer value and reduce operating costs is a challenging prospect to many organizations accustomed to primarily investing in slow-coach IT to keep the lights on. To leverage the potential of technologies like big...
by Ian T | Dec 8, 2020 | Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation (DX) describes how organizations are realizing the potential of new digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, virtual reality and drones – to bring...
by Ian T | Dec 8, 2020 | Data Management
It may sound a dry subject but data capture is today one of the most critical topics in business. It’s become a major competitive battleground for businesses around the world. Read why a subject so boring has got so many entrepreneurs energized. Data Capture in 2020...
by Ian T | Oct 29, 2020 | Digital Ecosystem, Digital Platform, Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation Software
Digital platforms and ecosystems are the new battleground for business. They are re-defining how markets work and the state of competition. Your business needs to be a part of that future. Find out more here… Most of us ‘get’ what a digital platform...
by Ian T | Oct 29, 2020 | Digital Transformation
About Digital Transformation describes how organizations are realizing the potential of new digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, virtual reality and drones – to bring...
by Ian T | Oct 29, 2020 | Data Driven Decision Making, Data Management, Data-Driven Culture, Digital Transformation
About Wikipedia describes Business Intelligence is as the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Market Size The market...
by Ian T | Oct 29, 2020 | Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Software
What is Business Intelligence Software? Business Intelligence Software is a type of application software that equips users with the ability to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data to source business intelligence. The applications generally read data that has...
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