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By Bhuvaneswar Naik, Vice President - HR, SAP India
May 7th 2012
Talent management at SAP Labs is driven by its culture. Though difficult to define, culture is the way of life in the company, which includes fun, feeling involved, and the joy of creating the next game changing product for businesses around the world. As Bhuvaneswar Naik, VP, HR, SAP India explains, “We never say it is a ‘workplace’, we say it is a ‘way of life’.” This is particularly true in a product development company where business is a function of con... Read more »
Is talent mobility the answer?
By Patricia A. Milligan, President, Talent, Rewards & Communication, Mercer
May 7th 2012
Talent, undoubtedly is the fuel that drives the global economy engine. In this backdrop, the physical mobility of talent within or across organizations, industries and globally, along with mobility of workers across occupations or skill sets, can help balance global human capital markets and stimulate economic growth in both developed and developing countries. Thus, understanding and harnessing talent mobility becomes ever so critical for organizations across the world to correct the mismatch ... Read more »
In Pursuit of Talent
By Aparna Ballakur, Vice President - HR, Yahoo! India
Apr 2nd 2012
Being an Internet business that is constantly evolving makes Yahoo! an exciting workplace. Aparna Ballakur, VP-HR elucidates, “The kind of talent that is attracted to an Internet company adds to its excitement as they are dramatically different from people who want to work in a packaged software environment.” The difference lies in the fact that in an Internet company, what was super cool last year is passé this year.Drawing parallels of Yahoo!’s business to that of hi... Read more »
It’s only the beginning
By Vasantha Angamuthu
Mar 5th 2012
Vasantha Angamuthu on the first Hindustan Times Shine HR Summit that initiates the big conversation on enhancing productivity in Indian workplacesWhat led to the conceptualization of the Hindustan Times Shine HR Summit?For Hindustan Times, central to how we work is a finite understanding of what our readers and users want and need from us. This includes everything from the big role of being the fourth estate and powering the political and social discourse, to ensuring that our products are foc... Read more »
Allow mistakes to foster innovation
By Maclean Raphael
Mar 5th 2012
Worldwide, and more specifically in India, organizations have increasingly witnessed and are dealing with the war for talent over the past few years. Whilst there are numerous management and engineering institutes churning out thousands of students, not all of them are readily employable. Companies therefore, struggle to identify the handful who will become their future leaders. This further intensifies the war for fresh talent.“The talent attraction is further aggravated in a diversifie... Read more »
What lies beneath
By Dr. Tanvi Gautam
Mar 5th 2012
It was a damp evening in Singapore when I decided to visit the exhibition featuring the artifacts and stories from the sunken vessel - Titanic. The exhibition painstakingly reproduced the commissioning of the ship, the excitement surrounding its launch and the unfolding of the disaster that fateful night. I could not help but think of how organizations embarking on the path of better work-life fit initiatives are also on a maiden voyage that carries with it the potential to charter new territo... Read more »
A Look Ahead
By Vivek Nath
Mar 5th 2012
In the current business scenario, organizations in India are faced with business-critical globalization challenges. There are the non-Indian head-quartered MNCs; the rapidly globalizing Indian corporates; and the emerging Indian corporates. There is a special significance to this classification of organizations, because the speed at which they are ‘globalizing’ is very different in India, as compared to other smaller countries in Asia.MNCs in India have a certain level of independe... Read more »
5 Tenets of developing talent
By Dr. Mrityunjay Kumar Srivastava
Mar 5th 2012
For rapid growth of the organization, it is important to have talented people at the right places. However, that is not enough as if talent is not guided and nurtured well, they may not be able to grow and reach to its fullest potential. Developing talent is therefore critical when the organization’s competitive advantage hinges on its people.Usually, it is believed that training and development – classroom, outbound, on-the-job, mentoring and coaching - could help develop talent. ... Read more »
Intangible Opinion
By Abhijit Bhaduri
Mar 5th 2012
Facebook seeks to raise $5 billion in an IPO that looks likely to be the largest by a web company since Google in 2004 and could place the social network's value as high as $75 billion to $100 billion. All this is even more incredible, when you look at the user base of 845 million members, more than half of whom, or 483 million, return to the site daily.These millions of users have shared more than 100 petabytes (100 quadrillion bytes) of photos and videos with Facebook, and produced an averag... Read more »
New Year, New Priorities
By Bimal Rath - Founder, ThinkTalent
Feb 7th 2012
Discussions with senior professionals in the industry, both line and HR people, is drawing the picture of what 2012, and maybe the next 18-24 months, could look like for jobs and talent. There is a general talk of uncertainty in business growth, but all agree that the actual actions on the ground are still of a reasonably buoyant economy. The overall experience of 2008-2009, where there was a recessionary trend globally (India was still relatively insulated), is also at the back of people&rsqu... Read more »
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