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).
Aberdeen Group
All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Techniques and Strategies
The Aberdeen Group surveys practitioners to identify key trends in employee onboarding practices. Findings illustrate the areas in which companies are currently tackling onboarding and great areas of opportunity.
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 organizations 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 organization 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.
Bersin & Associates
Talent Management Suites: Executive Summary of Key Findings (Cornerstone profile)
This Cornerstone OnDemand profile comes from the massive original research on the state of the talent management marketplace and analysis of all the key vendors.
Bersin & Associates
Learning Management Systems 2008: Facts, Practical Analysis, Trends and
Vendor Profiles (Cornerstone Profile Only)
Bersin’s comprehensive research of the LMS market and vendors. This is an excerpt of Cornerstone OnDemand’s profile only.
Bersin & Associates
Talent Management What Can We Learn from Experienced Companies?
In this research, Bersin & Associates takes on a series of high-level questions about talent management. To name just a few: what are the forces driving talent management, how does your organization get started, and what is the role of technology? A primer on talent management.
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
Creating “Ready” Strategies for Healthcare People Management
Nowhere is the pressure to attract committed, motivated professionals greater than in healthcare.
In addition to the shortage of skilled workers, healthcare providers must comply with numerous regulations to retain their accreditation.
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 organization.
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 organizations 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
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
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
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.
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.
Knowledge Infusion
Buying a Talent Management System: The 11 Key Steps to Success
For many organizations, especially mid-sized companies, the process of procuring a talent management system can seem daunting. Knowledge Infusion outlines eleven key steps to simplifying the processes.
Knowledge Infusion
10 Recommendations for Advancing Your HR Technology Strategy
HR must consider whether legacy systems and processes are optimized to create additional value for their organizations while making “smart” investments in new, strategic technologies—ultimately helping ensure that their organizations are well-positioned to emerge as employers of choice.
Knowledge Engineering & Associates
Rx for Government: Leadership and New Technology can Solve Chronic Talent Management Illnesses
The government lags far behind the private sector in addressing talent management challenges at a time when these challenges can be cost effectively mitigated with new technology and savvy leadership. This paper makes practical recommendations for leveraging state of the industry TM technology and human capital best practices.
