Today SuccessFactors announced plans to acquire InfoHRM (renamed Inform Business Impact) - a small but very well established leader in the area of HR and Talent Analytics and Workforce Planning.  We believe this acquisition is very significant for the talent and HR systems marketplace: it now establishes SuccessFactors as the emerging leader in the broad and important area of delivering actionable talent and HR measurement and analytics. Consider some of the most important yet difficult questions all companies face: how many employees do I have on the payroll today? What is my retention rate for high-performers? Which managers are driving the highest levels of performance (or retention or leadership growth)? What are the characteristics of the most successful new hires we bring into the organization?And consider some of the even more strategic workforce planning questions organizations have: what is the impact of the potential reorganization or merger we are considering? What are the biggest gaps in our talent pipeline as we move into China, Brazil, or another emerging market? How will the aging baby boomer affect our professional workforce in the next three years? Where in our talent mix do we have the greatest risk?These questions, and many more, plague business leaders in all functional areas: CEO, Sales, Customer Service, Operations, and even internal groups like Finance and IT. Without easy answers to such questions most business leaders make decisions "on the fly" - and often with very imperfect information. One of the biggest US manufacturers of industrial equipment is in the middle of a major product shift from automotive and transportation products to new products for emerging energy companies.
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