Taleo World 2010 Innovation Awards Program

Peer recognition for you. Publicity for your organization.

Share your talent management success that delivered performance improvements to your business—powered by Taleo!

• Program Overview
• Program Rules and Deadlines
• Winners
• Previous Award Winners
• Judging Panel
• Nomination Form

Program Overview

The Taleo Innovation Awards Program was created to honor and recognize Taleo Enterprise™ customer organizations that advance talent management initiatives using innovation, leadership, and best practices. Program nominations are judged by a panel of HR leaders who are peers and analysts. Winners are announced at Taleo World.

Notable success stories highlight how the Taleo solution solved a critical business need, how the system enabled cost savings, or how a customer configured the solution in a unique way to meet a specific challenge. Since metrics illustrate value creation, take the time to investigate and describe measurable benchmarks before and after your project and work the results into your story for more powerful effect.

We are looking for innovative talent management that has returned value to the organization. Following are a few examples to help you frame some ideas.

Talent Driven Business Success — Showcase how your talent strategy and commitment to key talent principles has helped your organization grow in this challenging economy.

Employee Engagement — Explain your processes, tools and measurements for improving employee engagement and productivity in your business.

Hiring the Right Team — Outline how you capture the right criteria for success, map that to your sourcing, assessment and hiring practices, then measure the impact.

Talent Insights — Outline how you have used talent information collected across the application suite to drive your business.

How will this information be used?

• All customer stories will be submitted for the Innovation Awards and the winner will be announced at Taleo World in September 2010.
• We will work with your Client Executive and Customer Marketing to repurpose the information for a customer success story that may be shared with customers, prospective clients, on our website, on the Knowledge Exchange, and in other external communication activities.
• Success stories will be used to populate our internal knowledge base to further share customer success on future implementations.

Program Rules and Deadlines

• Submissions require a completed form.
• Individuals may submit more than one nomination for consideration by the judging panel.
• There is no fee for submitting a nomination.
• Submissions must be free of commercial promotion.
• Nominations should be run by your Client Executive for review before submitting.
• Submissions are not limited but should be from organizations that plan to have representatives at Taleo World.

Winners

• Celebrated at the Taleo World Innovation Awards Luncheon.
• Recognized by peers and hundreds of world-class leaders across all industries.
• Provided with one free Taleo World pass for the thought leader/presenter.
• Presented with a stunning award signifying and honoring the achievement.
• Showcased in a case study and video highlighting their innovative ideas.

Previous Award Winners

2009 Taleo Innovation Awards Winner: North Shore-LIJ
North Shore received top honors for creating a strategic, efficient and comprehensive talent management process that has helped the organization achieve a $25 million improvement in operating margin.

2008 Taleo Innovation Awards Winner: City of Chicago
The City of Chicago received top honors for streamlining its prescreening process. As a result, the City eliminated the time-consuming manual scoring process, and reduced the number of candidates who must be manually screened by over 90 percent.

2007 Taleo Innovation Awards Winner: Dell Corporation
Improved Referral Experience: Dell developed efficient new steps for their referral process using Taleo Candidate Communication Agent.  They also created a dedicated referral career section where employees can easily navigate and direct new talent to Dell.
Winning Concept: Through Taleo, Dell built a dedicated referral career section and created a new CSW geared around CRM capabilities versus hiring processes.

2006 Taleo Innovation Awards Winner: Deloitte
Global Internal Mobility Program: To assist in retaining key talent and support employee development via internal opportunities, Deloitte developed a dedicated international opportunity career section and transfer opportunity intranet site.  ACE methodologies also acknowledged key internal candidates and provided value in retaining quality talent within the company. 

2005 Taleo Innovation Awards Winner: Toyota
Hire-A-Hero Program: Toyota developed a program designed to assist the transition of those who have recently left or are planning to leave military service into the civilian job market.

Judging Panel

Josh Bersin, CEO and President, Bersin Associates

Josh Bersin has worked with hundreds of companies to deliver high impact employee learning, leadership development and talent management. In 2001, he founded Bersin & Associates to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Today, the firm is the "go to" source for learning and HR decision makers seeking product and market data, insight on trends and expert advice on enterprise learning and talent management.

Bersin is a frequent speaker at industry events including the HR Technology Conference, the ASTD International Conference, and the Learning Technologies Conference. In addition, he has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine and is a frequent contributor to other leading training and HR publications. He has been quoted on talent management topics in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, on BBC Radio and National Public Radio.

Jason Corsello, Vice President, KI OnDemand at Knowledge Infusion

Jason Corsello is the Vice President of the Center of Excellence at Knowledge Infusion. In this role, Corsello is responsible for create an open community of information, intelligence, sharing and best-in-class guidance for those companies dedicated to creating a business impact with human capital. Previous to Knowledge Infusion, Corsello was an industry analyst and research director for Enterprise Software and Service Delivery Strategies at Yankee Group, where he was responsible for leading the firm's advisory and consulting services as it relates to enterprise applications such as human capital management (HCM), services delivery strategies such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and business process outsourcing (BPO) and emergent technologies including web 2.0, collaboration and productivity solutions.

Corsello is a recognized thought leader in human capital management, workforce transformation, and business process outsourcing and his research has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and CFO Magazine. Corsello is a graduate of the School of Business Administration at the University of San Diego.

Lexy Martin, Director, Research and Analytics at CedarCrestone

As director, research and analytics at CedarCrestone, Lexy Martin is responsible for its annual HR Systems Survey, now in its 13^th year. When not working on the survey, she provides strategy, business case, and metrics and analytics services, along with deep dive benchmarking in all industries. Working with many of the leading HCM vendors, she has helped develop their value propositions and conducted numerous surveys of their customer bases. Lexy is also the chair of the editorial committee for the new IHRIM Workforce Solutions Review which combines the IHRIM Link and IHRIM Journal into a print and online resource.

A sought-after thought-leader and speaker, few researchers in the field of HR technology can match the experience that Lexy has accumulated during her career in introducing emerging technologies. From the pioneering days of introducing office automation and PCs in the early 80s, groupware in the late 80s, self service in the early 90s, and to continuing technology introduction this decade, Lexy is a consistent contributor to the industry's continuing evolution.

William Taylor, Founding Editor, Fast Company

William C. Taylor is an agenda-setting writer, speaker and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate and succeed. He is the cofounder of Fast Company magazine and coauthor of Mavericks at Work. His new project, Practically Radical: Strategies to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself, is based on in-depth access to 25 organizations that are making deep-seated changes under the most trying circumstances imaginable. These organizations (from hard-charging technology companies to long-established nonprofits, from hospitals to automakers to banks) are mastering a set of strategies and practices that define the work of leadership in turbulent times-ideas from which every leader can learn. The book will be published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllins, in January 2011. In the meantime, Taylor chronicles his research, insights and lessons in a popular blog Harvard Business Online, the digital arm of the Harvard Business Review.

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