David Lentz

Talent Management Sector Getting Stronger

It seems to me that these companies are doing little more than re-purposing CRM software and selling it to companies that have weak management and/or weak HRM departments. Well, there are certainly enough of those to constitute a viable market for their products.

But looking at the web sites of the companies under examination, it would seem that they could stand to turn their products on themselves, and identify/motivate those responsible for presenting the companies' faces over the web. Simply put, their corporate web sites suck, and could use a bit of talent applied to them.

I don't think I would be inclined to invest in companies that sell software to better apply/develop the talent within a company if their own presentation is so poor. It all smacks of a serious need for talent management software.