This Week in the World: HCM Briefings and B2B Content Marketing

How Does Your Hiring and Retention Program Compare to the Inc. 5000's?

Last year, Cornell professor Sam Bacharach surveyed more than 300 Inc. 5000 firms to find out how they hire and retain their best talent. Check out the results in the following infographic featured on Inc.com to see how you stack up. Read the full post.

How HCM Vendors Can Get the Most Out of Briefings

You might have briefings on the brain after this week’s two announcements that George LaRocque has joined The Starr Conspiracy Intelligence Unit as director of go-to-market services and that The Starr Conspiracy will be accepting requests for briefings in a more official capacity. If you’re wondering how you can have successful briefings as an HCM vendor, check out the five tips below to get you started:

The Starr Conspiracy Acquires LAROCQUE INC and InfluenceHR

Things are movin' and shakin' over here at The Starr Conspiracy. Today, we announced the acquisition of LAROCQUE INC, a strategic go-to-market consulting firm for HR technology and human capital management (HCM) companies. What does that mean? A few things: