The Human Capitalist

I've Moved...

Effective today, March 26, 2007, The Human Capitalist is moving to a new URL, www.humancapitalist.com.  I hope you like the new site.  I will be winding down this site and shutting it down over the next few weeks.  For those of you subscribed to my email or RSS feed, you should be automatically re-directed to the new site.  For those that would like to added my RSS feed, you can cut and paste either of the the URLs below into your respective reader...

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHumanCapitalist

http://humancapitalist.com/?feed=rss2

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts, comments and suggestions on the new site.

The New and Improved Human Capitalist Coming Monday

You have probably been thinking, "the blog posts on Corsello's site have been light lately, I wonder if he's giving up on this blog thing".  Quite the opposite.  Keep your eyes peeled for the new and improved blog, set to launch on Monday.  Since I tell many of the vendors in the market to "keep it simple", I'm trying to eat my own dog food with the new blog.  I've got about a dozen half-baked posts that will be published on the new site based on recent travels and many engaging discussions throughout the industry over the past month.  Any suggestions, comments, or recommendations for the new site are always welcome.

Watching Stuff Blow Up...

No...this is not a jab at any software vendor but what I actually did earlier this week...

Date - 3/13/2007
Time - 2:30AM
Place - Las Vegas
Setting - Stardust Hotel

At Least Peopleclick is Confident About Their Future...

...because no one else seems to be very bullish on them.  ERE Media has an interesting article about them today regarding their recent challenges and prospects for the future.  The truth behind the fiction has a number of warning signs that should be concerning to any prospect or customer...

• Warning Sign #1 - The management team has completely flipped in recent months.  A complete management overhaul is never a good sign...period.

• Warning Sign #2 - I would sure love to know who the 170 new customers are because my market intelligence suggests very few new customer wins in the past 12 months for their ATS.  OFCCP saved them for a quarter in 2006, but not anymore.

• Warning Sign #3 - One of their large marquee customers is due to end the relationship because of far-reaching technical and support issues.

• Warning Sign #4 - Heard they recently had a meeting scheduled where the just didn't even show up (it wasn't me but that is one of my biggest pet peeves).
  

• Warning Sign #5 - Every observer that knows the market is quite aware that they have been shopped quite aggressively over the past nine months (and even beyond).  To say, "that's not our focus" is misleading and any banker or corporate development executive in the space would confirm that statement is wrong.

• Warning Sign #6 - Even board members came out last year in this article, critical of the company and questioning why they have yet to see their exit event.

• Warning Sign #7 - Stand-alone ATS will soon be a thing of the past.  All of the other major vendors, including Taleo, Vurv, Kenexa and Stepstone are all pursuing integrated talent management strategies.  Peopleclick has no expressed intentions to become a true talent management vendor.

Viability should be a grave concern right now.

Where Have You Been?

My apologies for the lack of blog posts over the past 2 weeks.  What have I been up to???

• Did a panel earlier this week at Lawson's CUE conference
• Continuing my due diligence, demos, and customer interviews for my upcoming talent management suite report (starting to shape up nicely)
• Working on a new design for the blog, due out in the next few days
• Preparing for 2 upcoming speaking engagements
• Enjoying the nice weather of San Diego (nice to be in some warm weather for a change)
• Leading a thought piece around the impact of enterprise consumerization...more to come on that

Look for the new blog and some exciting blog posts shortly.