Whitepapers & Talent Management Reports
Strategic Thought Leadership from Around the Industry
In addition to its own research, Cornerstone is routinely featured in whitepapers and reports written by leading independent research firms and industry analysts. Below you will find a selection of these reports (registration required).
Bersin & Associates
Cornerstone OnDemand: An Emerging Leader in the Talent Management Systems Market
The talent management software market, which has reached more than $3 billion this year, continues to grow – attracting new players, consolidations and emerging leaders. In this bulletin, we discuss Cornerstone OnDemand, a company we have been following since its early days, and review the company's positioning, strengths and trajectory.
Bersin & Associates
Development Driven Performance Management: The Path from Once-a-Year Performance Management to Ongoing Employee Development
Bersin & Associates Senior Analyst Stacia Sherman Garr explains why organisations need to create a culture that focuses on ongoing performance development, rather than the once per year employee appraisal model. HR’s role is both to set the right tone in communications about performance management and to provide managers with development-focused performance management tools. This report discusses in detail the five key actions that organisations should take to transition to a development-driven performance-management culture, and provides examples of companies that are successfully implementing each.
Bersin & Associates
Request for Proposal (RFP) Template
Bersin & Associates has created the independent talent management RFP template and toolkit. It is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone looking to build out a TM procurement strategy.
Bersin & Associates
The Talent Management Investments: Focusing on What Matters Most through Talent Planning
Bersin & Associates Analyst Leighanne Levensaler outlines the approach HR organizations must take to identify, cost-justify, develop and implement the highest impact talent management strategy.
Bersin & Associates
The ROI of Talent in a Down Economy
Bersin & Associates Analyst Kim Lamoureux examines the key challenges and focus areas for organisations in today's economic environment to achieve the highest possible return on investment on talent.
Bersin & Associates
Social Networking in Talent Management
Josh Bersin describes changes in the nature of today’s highly networked organisation that call for new ways of managing talent. Of course, real business impact flows from practical use cases and this research describes how to apply corporate social networking in the context of talent management.
Bersin & Associates
The Talent Management Experience Series – New Roles and Expectations for Systems (Part 3 – The Employee Experience)
In the final installment of Leighanne Levensaler’s three part series, the analyst describes why it is useful to evaluate talent management challenges from the perspective of the key stakeholders. In this case, it’s from the perspective of the employee.
Bersin & Associates
The Talent Management Experience Series – New Roles and Expectations for Systems (Part 2 – Business Leader Experience)
In the second part of Leighanne Levensaler’s three part series, the analyst describes why it is useful to evaluate talent management challenges from the perspective of the key stakeholders. In this case, it’s from the perspective of executives.
Bersin & Associates
The Talent Management Experience Series – New Roles and Expectations for Systems (Part 1 – The Manager Experience)
In the first part of Leighanne Levensaler’s three part series, the analyst describes why it is useful to evaluate talent management challenges from the perspective of the key stakeholders. In this case, it’s from the perspective of managers.
Bersin & Associates
Cornerstone OnDemand: A Growing Player in the Evolving Market for Talent Management Software
A profile of Cornerstone OnDemand independently written by leading analyst and research Josh Bersin. The profile also includes interesting findings and data about the state of the talent management market generally.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Organic vs Acquired
Consolidation and acquisition have been the recent hot trends in the talent management systems market. Vendors are gobbling up other vendors and offering lofty proclamations about how their new, combined systems will change the world. But savvy buyers know that that piecing together different software platforms is never as easy as it sounds in the press releases.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
The Leadership Revolution: Developing Talent in the New World of Business
In the new world of business, the identity of leadership is rapidly changing. Although traditional competencies such as integrity, vision, judgment and people development are still relevant, organisations needing to develop leaders must look beyond the conventional.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Employees Stuck in the Middle? How to Transform the Average Joe into an Everyday Superhero
The terms "high performer" and "low performer" are firmly entrenched in the lexicon of talent management – and for good reason. High performers are your company's superheroes and the low performers are a constant management challenge. But what about employees that fall in "the middle"? What about the Average Joes?
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Employment to Empowerment: Execution is Not Enough
For most of the 20th century, the focus was on execution of tasks. Pay increases and rewards were based on the number of widgets produced over a given time period. But in the 21st century, employers need their people to be self-directed and self-motivated in completing work that is far more specialised and technical than the assembly lines of the past. Organisations will need the tools and the infrastructure to nurture empowered, self reliant and agile employees for this workforce.This paper explores how and why organisations need to go above and beyond employment and execution in the 21st century, to cultivating and transforming today's workforce into a culture of empowerment and engagement.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Using Succession Management and Career Development to Drive Talent Mobility
Today, the ideas around succession management are changing. Succession management used to be a top-down process for executives only; and while it still requires the involvement of senior leaders, employees at all levels are also becoming active participants in their own career management. Successful organisations understand the need for both: succession management enables them to have the right people with the right skills to fill critical roles, while directly engaging and empowering employees to explore internal career paths.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Performance Management Solutions for the Midmarket: Why Bother?
Everyone involved in the performance management process has wondered the same thing at least once: Why bother? While many enterprise-class organisations have already moved to adopt technology to support the performance management process, small and medium-size businesses are less likely to have done the same. This paper will explain why creating a performance-oriented culture that is supported by technology is crucial for business growth in midmarket companies today.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Failing to Learn: Why Learning is Critical to Strategic Talent Management
Most talent management solutions are missing the one critical component that will make positive business impacts a reality - learning. The "Failing to Learn" whitepaper helps outline the best combination of learning management system and talent management application that will maximize revenue growth by addressing learning's role in onboarding, performance, succession, compensation, and social networking.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
The Extended Enterprise: Using New Technologies to Extend Your Network, Enable Collaboration and Drive Revenue
Today, forward-thinking organizations are finding a fertile area for new growth in effectively reaching out to the extended enterprise of customers, partners and members to develop new profit centers, increase sales, cut support costs and boost channel productivity.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
The Five Talent Management Strategies Your Competitors Don't Want You to Know
To optimize your talent strategy, learn how organizations with forward-thinking approaches to talent management develop and retain employees and drive revenue in new ways. Based on our work with industry-leading organizations, Cornerstone OnDemand offers five strategies for your organization to address these initiatives.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Compliance Challenges for Today’s Talent Managers
A high-level overview of the critical challenges facing HR practitioners around compliance management. Not specific to any one industry, this paper provides solid footing for how to handle a range of compliance, licensure, and certification management issues.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Talent Management for Healthcare: Facilitating Organizational Excellence and Outstanding Patient Care
Amid increasing industry consolidation, expanding organizational structures and tighter competition for talent, the biggest challenges facing healthcare providers are creating a common workforce culture and career development opportunities. Download this whitepaper to better understand how tackle these challenges head-on.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Talent Management Strategies for the Retail Grocery Industry
Retail in general, and the grocery industry specifically, faces a set of unique talent challenges. Coping with often sky-high turnover, the modern grocer has to focus on retention, time-to-competence and how to get the most out of a labor component that is the industry’s largest single cost.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Strategic Employee Onboarding: First Impressions Are Everything
Strategic onboarding programs (to be distinguished from tactical “orientation”) last for a minimum of six months and pay attention to more than burying new hires in paperwork. Socialization plays a key role, as does acclimation to corporate culture. Getting new hires up to speed and proficient fast pays huge dividends.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
Distinct Aspects of True On-Demand Software
A foundational look at the business case for Software-as-a-Service, including definition of key concepts are defined and the benefits and challenges for important stakeholders in your organisation.
Cornerstone OnDemand Research
The Empowered Workforce: Crucial to Success in the New Economy
Execution is not enough – employees also need to be empowered. Why? Because an empowered workforce means more engagement, higher customer satisfaction, increased business productivity and performance and better business intelligence. Featuring a case study on Kelly Services, the global workforce management firm, this paper explores the notion of empowerment – what it means for the employee, why it matters for the bottom line, and how organizations can leverage their learning and talent management strategies to foster an empowered organization.
Forrester Research
How Kelly Services Implemented Onboarding to Retain Quality Workers
Discover how the launch of a formalized onboarding process for Kelly Services resulted in 300% increases in revenue and gross profits, while lowering turnover dramatically. Ultimately, newly trained employees felt more confident and aware beginning their new roles than previously non-trained employees and begin to contribute to the bottom line immediately.
