Sonar6 Employee Performance Management System Version 3 Enhances User Experience and Engagement; Enables Organizations to Rapidly Implement Great Performance Reviews
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We’ll be unveiling Sonar6 v3 at the huge HR Technology Conference in Chicago this month, as well as presenting at the Cool New Technologies session. Since the conference this year is showcasing Talent Management, Web 2.0 and Workforce Analytics/Planning, it’s the perfect opportunity to show our exciting new release off!
Sonar6 received the HR Technology award at last year’s conference but we weren’t there to collect. This year we won’t be receiving an award, but we’ll certainly have a lot of great new features on display! If you’re in the area, we’d love you to stop by and visit us on Stand 100. And if you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, simply print out this PDF and present it at the venue for free admission.
Big news! Sonar6 have been selected to present at the “Cool New Technologies for HR” session at October’s HR Technology Conference in Chicago. There are four other vendors in this session, all described as mind blowing… Other than Sonar6, there’s BrandGames, InterviewStudio.com, cubeless and Orgnet.com, all companies we love because they are wired into making HR work in an emerging GenY workplace, so it should be a wild time!
Check out Bill Kutiks article on these five vendors.
A “tip of the cap” to Bill Kutik and the team at Knowledge Infusion for their collaborative work on some quality radio (well podcast actually).
The Bill Kutik Radio Show is a great listen – straightforward, educational and edgy banter about… well… er… HR Technology. It has a great mix of vendor and customer perspectives and always a few gems in each one around opportunities and issues in our market.
Interesting few days with prospective clients in Australia. The focus on workforce planning and talent management in general is very clear, with several of the initiatives we are involved in having CEO and or Board sponsorship and involvement.
There is also more interest from traditionally “talent averse” sectors of the market such as manufacturing, where cost reduction and revenue growth have been the dominant elements of business / value creation strategies.
Definitely a market we will spend more time in during 07.
Thanks to those of you subscribed to Gartner for the heads up – we were pretty chuffed to be one of the four “Cool Vendors” in their recent Finance and HCM research:
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=502272&ref=g_fromdoc
Apologies to those who don’t subscribe to Gartner – we will have a release out shortly once it has been approved.
It’s also interesting to see that the others listed all have some potential synergy with the talent management field, especially when you take into account the Talent Science approach we have been proposing (Talent_Science.pdf )
Talent is the new king asset, yet most established business disciplines are designed to manage capital, rather than human, assets. In this whitepaper Mike Carden discusses how a new decision science is rising up to help businesses make better decisions about their people. The Sonar6 term for it? Talent Science…
A big focus of the talent management space at the current time is around integration – clients supposedly driving the quest for the “ultimate package”; a complete suite of functionality across all the elements of the talent “circle” from acquisition to retention.
Organisations as a whole just don’t seem to be getting what they need out of systems and thinking around succession management. The companies credited with growth and sustainability driven from successful succession planning (say that 10 times!) are easily identified and constantly referred to.
Ok - I’m back - thanks for the prods from various people to get back to posting and talking with the talent management community! It’s been a huge couple of months with travel to the US and UK as well as a business taking off in our home country of New Zealand.