PwC Addresses Vital Elements of Managing Talent to Deliver Business Results at SuccessFactors' SuccessConnect San Francisco 2011

PwC's US People & Change Practice principals Diane Youden and Sayed Sadjady will discuss talent management strategies

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May 05, 2011, 09:00 ET

NEW YORK, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC US People & Change Practice will share insights concerning innovative talent strategies for success in the next decade at SuccessFactors' (NASDAQ: SFSF) SuccessConnect San Francisco taking place May 10-12 at the Westin St. Francis. PwC is a Gold level sponsor of the event, which is SuccessFactors' Americas global customer conference focused on business execution.

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During the conference, PwC's People & Change Practice principals Diane Youden and Sayed Sadjady will discuss the five important steps in managing talent to deliver an organization's business strategy. Youden and Sadjady will leverage findings from PwC's 14th Annual Global CEO Survey, which states 83 percent of CEOs plan to change their firm's talent management strategy over the next 12 months. The survey reports 66 percent of CEOs say that a lack of the right skills is their biggest talent challenge and 54 percent of CEOs see challenges in recruiting and integrating younger employees.

"As the economic recovery takes hold, the developed world is set to grow at half the pace of emerging markets," said Ed Boswell, U.S. Advisory People and Change Practice leader at PwC. "CEOs fear they won't have the right talent to compete effectively, and recognize that their current strategies for managing talent no longer fit. PwC and SuccessFactors help our mutual clients to realize a host of valuable benefits, including greater rates of business transformation success and effective use of human capital."

PwC's continued relationship with SuccessFactors helps organizations accelerate business execution. Together, PwC and SuccessFactors help clients align their people and business strategies to achieve new levels of excellence in human capital management and business execution while growing the bottom line.

"SuccessConnect brings together organizations of all sizes and all industries to discuss today's number one business imperative – how companies execute," said Catherine Cherubino, vice president, americas alliances, SuccessFactors. "PwC's leadership and innovation work seamlessly with SuccessFactors' commitment to helping customers improve business alignment and people performance to drive breakthrough results for companies of all sizes."

For more information on the conference please visit: http://www.successfactors.com/successconnect/san-francisco.

For more information on PwC's People & Change practice please visit: www.pwc.com/us/peopleandchange.

About PwC's Advisory Practice

PwC's Advisory professionals help organizations improve business performance, respond quickly and effectively to crisis, and extract value from transactions. We understand our clients' industries and unique business challenges, and look across the entire organization – focusing on strategy, structure, people, process and technology – to help clients build their next competitive advantage. See www.pwc.com/us/advisory for more information.

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