HCM or Human Capital Management encompasses the activities associated with Obtaining, Developing, Managing and Retaining a company's most valuable asset, it's people. The quality and performance of your people is what sets you apart in an intensely competitive market.

HCM is responsible for a broad range of activities, including identifying and recruiting the best available talent, and partnering with managers to retain, develop and motivate your people to reach their fullest potential.

The internet enables human capital solutions that were unthinkable before the internet.  The following is a partial list of how the internet is changing the landscape:

• Facilitates unprecedented flow of information
• Enables information management solutions, such as libraries of industry information and online testing and assessment
• Provides the medium through which far more robust and elegant business models – combining recruitment, learning, assessment, deployment, information, etc. – can be born and thrive
• Companies can generate an immediate and significant ROI from retaining their most valuable employees through the use of human capital solutions that include lifelong learning, effective deployment and constant feedback and assessment of the employment experience
• Integrates quality educational content with testing and certification

The internet is the world's greatest library and gives a person in Minot the same access to knowledge as a person in Manhattan.