Cornerstone OnDemand - Convergence 2008 highlights key trends in aptitude management

Social networking and collaboration, chip acquirements and aptitude management, and training the continued action are a allotment of today’s important trends in workforce technology, according to assembly at Cornerstone OnDemand’s applicant and accomplice conference, Convergence 2008.

Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., the provider of on-demand, chip acquirements and aptitude administration (ITM) software, agreeable and services, has hosted Convergence 2008, Cornerstone’s anniversary applicant and accomplice conference. The event, which took abode from 12th to 15th May at The Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, California, brought calm industry anticipation leaders and organisations from about the apple to altercate best convenance and the arising trends in acknowledged aptitude administration strategies.

In addition, a primary focus of the appointment was ‘client success’ – how audience can acquire even added allowances and amount conception from their Cornerstone deployments.

Highlights from the accident include:

* Dr John Boudreau, Research Director at the Center for Effective Organizations and Professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, gave a keynote accent - ‘Beyond HR to Talentship: A New Science of Human Capital’ - in which he discussed the accent of anecdotic cardinal roles aural organisations as able-bodied as his advance plan on ‘talent accommodation science’ that challenges business leaders to accomplish their aptitude a accurate antecedent of aggressive advantage.

* Heidi Spirgi, President of Knowledge Infusion, a cardinal workforce consulting organisation, who batten on ‘Emerging Trends in Talent Management: People, Process and Technology’. Spirgi discussed how aptitude administration requires a archetype about-face in the way HR defines its mission and measures its success, and went on to appearance how arch organisations are redesigning humans structures, rethinking aptitude processes and application new technologies to transform the way aptitude is managed.

* In a able-bodied abounding affair which admiring absorption from assembly of some of the world's better companies, Vincent Belliveau, Cornerstone OnDemand's General Manager EMEA, batten on how to adapt for, and deliver, all-around multi-country, multi-brand acquirements and aptitude administration programmes.

* The conference’s Talent Management Industry Analyst console brought calm some of the a lot of well-respected industry experts at the beginning of the acquirements and aptitude administration industry today. The console included Josh Bersin, President of Bersin & Associates; Jason Corsello, Vice President of the Center of Excellence at Knowledge Infusion; and Claire Schooley, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. Each brought a different angle on trends and best practices for able animal basic management. Connecting humans through amusing networking accord emerged as an important affair - and a key colonnade in an chip aptitude administration strategy.

* Josh Bersin aswell led a affair on ‘Enduring Organizations’, discussing how able companies that we all apperceive and account put strategies in abode that are amenable for their abiding success.

* Cornerstone OnDemand previewed their accessible advantage bore and their amusing networking and accord platform, Cornerstone Connect.

* Conference sponsors included Astadia, Core Competence, Element K, getAbstract, Intrepid, Lominger International, MindLeaders, People at Work AG, rapidLD, and We Comply.

* Cornerstone audience Arthur J. Gallagher, BECU, Pearson, Pitney Bowes, Trend Micro, United Stationers, and Websense won awards, honouring them for their avant-garde uses of, and success with, Cornerstone OnDemand articles and solutions.

* Many of the sessions discussed and accent the accent of amalgam acquirements and aptitude management; the appulse of amusing networking and accord on workforce achievement and engagement; and the befalling to alternation the continued action to absolutely affect an organisation’s basal line.

“Convergence was an accomplished befalling to allotment best practice, ability and coact with Cornerstone clients, anticipation leaders and partners,” said Chris Stewart, Director of Learning Services, Ticketmaster. “We decidedly accepted the focus on applicant success - something Cornerstone seems absolutely committed to, day to day.”

“This year was a awe-inspiring one for the conference,” said Adam Miller, CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “It was a accurate aggregation of top anticipation leaders, arch analysts, and Cornerstone’s admired audience and partners.

“The a lot of advantageous aspect is seeing humans affix to allotment their avant-garde and chip approaches to how they administer aptitude with Cornerstone.”

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Cornerstone OnDemand helps organisations to empower their humans and optimise workforce abundance with a absolute apartment of chip aptitude administration solutions for learning, compliance, performance, advantage and assumption management, as able-bodied as able-bodied advertisement and analytics. Cornerstone aswell provides over 30,000 pre-integrated training titles. The company’s multi-tenant, multi-user software-as-a-service (SaaS) architectonics provides barter with accelerated deployments, basal IT costs, greater flexibility, accurate believability and a lower absolute amount of ownership. Cornerstone’s triple-digit advance has been accurate by a market-leading chump assimilation rate. Leading enterprises such as AIB, Barnes & Noble, Data Return, Equinox, Pearson, Randstad and Trend Micro calculation on Cornerstone to advice them accomplish organisational arete and aggressive advantage. Cornerstone OnDemand is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and has all-embracing offices in London, Paris, Munich and Tel Aviv.