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When Things Go Wrong

September 1, 2010
oilwave

Over the last few months, we’ve been watching tremendously troubling images come out of BP’s Gulf oil spill. We often think that when things go wrong, they can usually be corrected, but sometimes something goes wrong and it’s just catastrophic.  At the time of writing, the oil spill had recently overtaken the amount of...
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Screen Flicker and End User Annoyances

August 30, 2010
kindle

There has been so much publicity around e-readers and the Apple iPad lately. In truth, I’m totally captivated by both of these technologies, but have not jumped in the market yet. The iPad seems wonderful since it is basically the next evolution of the net book, or mini-laptop. It has a great user interface,...
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Next Gen Workforce Planning

August 25, 2010
planning

We’ve been doing a pretty good job with Talent Management in my opinion.  We have pretty much deployed our systems or are in the midst of doing so.  We have reengineered our core talent processes from talent acquisition to performance to succession to learning and compensation.  We have started to grow our talent thinking...
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Corporate Strategy & Talent Management

August 23, 2010
strategy

A long (very long) time ago, I used to captain a cycling team.  I had a crew of about 6 people that raced every week, and we all had our objectives and our roles.  As part of our weekly training for races, we would drill the sprinter on sprinting exercises, have the guys who...
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Go to the HR Technology Conference

August 19, 2010
HRTech

Really. You guys know that I don’t usually pitch anything.  But I have pitched this show a few times.  It really is probably the largest gathering of HR people outside of the SHRM conference.  But you never hear people come back from the SHRM conference talking excitedly about… well, anything really.  Some people like...
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Leadership: The Elusive Skill

August 18, 2010
leadership

In cycling, there is the concept of a pace line.  Just as in auto racing (if you’re a NASCAR person) if you inches are behind another cyclist, you’ll save in the neighborhood of 25 to 30% of your energy as the cyclist in front of you fights the wind for you.  That person in...
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Lack of Use

August 16, 2010
Male_Cyclists_Legs

It’s been a while since I was on a bike.  All for good reasons, I haven’t actually been home in about 3 weeks.  I mean, you do need to have a bike available to you and decent roads to go for a ride.  I’m not sure that 3 weeks in NYC qualify.  First, I’m...
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Yelp and the Future of BI Search

August 11, 2010
yelp_logo

I’m sitting (almost) next to a guy who works for Yelp.  He just did a pretty interesting tutorial to the person in the middle seat1 about some interesting features in Yelp.  I at least didn’t know about some of these, but the most interesting of which is a little click box above the Google...
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What’s Next?

August 4, 2010
VendorsL

Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world.  After all, what would we have done if SoftScape had not coined the term “Talent Management”?  (I’m pretty sure it was them,...
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Implementing Smart Codes

August 2, 2010
smartcode

So you’re going to implement new job codes, or department codes, or whatever.  Someone in the organization has a great idea:  “let’s make the codes smart!”  I mean, what better idea to manage the information within the code than to implant attributes within the code itself.  So you go down the road:  Job category...
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Explaining Facts and Dimensions

July 27, 2010
StyleStarSchema

Fact:  A turnover rate based on a calculation Dimension:  Historical time trend of turnover Fact:  The number of heads in your HR database Dimension:  The breakdown of headcount by organization Fact:  The number of FTE’s in any given job code Dimension:  The demographic analysis of FTE’s in job code I honestly have no idea...
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Pretty is not Useful

July 26, 2010
pretty

Not all of us have fancy business intelligence tools and cool dashboards with great graphs prepared for us in our business environments yet.  If we’re lucky, we belong to organizations that have spent millions of dollars figuring out how to get us analytics when we log into self service environments.  Or perhaps we have...
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Defining SaaS

July 21, 2010
saas

Since I defined Web 2.0 already, I thought I’d also define SaaS for the masses.  Again, this is actually a fairly easy and straightforward technology to put some boundaries around.  First of all, I don’t actually like the moniker “Software as a Service” because it confuses most HR people.  At the core, SaaS does...
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Defining Web 2.0

July 19, 2010
Web20en

It’s probably long past time to write some definitions.  In fact, I’ve done this before, probably every time I write a post about Web 2.0. A few years ago, I said that Web 2.0 would not be on the radar screens of HR for a couple of years, and sure enough, the last couple...
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Everything in its Place

July 14, 2010
Airline-seat

I write this in the usual place – the airplane.  I’m in a window seat, so I’m only surrounded on three sides.  The guy in front of me has decided that all the stuff he does not want should not go in front of him, but that “out of sight, out of mind” is...
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications

July 12, 2010
socialmedianotifications

I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders.  If they are nieces or nephews, they get some allowances for being kids.  But when I get literally 5 or 6 notifications in...
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Up In The Air – Packing Theory

July 7, 2010
upintheair4

Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.”  Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations.  (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the Oscars.)  Several people have told me how personal the film was, and other than...
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Up In The Air – Boarding Theory

July 6, 2010
upintheair3

Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.”  Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations.  (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the Oscars.)  Several people have told me how personal the film was, and other than...
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Bill Kutik and the Direction of HR Technology

July 1, 2010
top100billkutik

A recent Bill Kutik Radio Show featured Tom Keebler of Towers Watson.  Tom is the Global Practice Leader of the TW HR Service Delivery Practice, and each year they run an HR Technology Survey that is probably the second largest in the industry (Lexy’s from CedarCrestone is significantly larger this year).  The TW survey...
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Lessons Learned From Gaming

June 30, 2010
gaming

Ok, I’ll admit that I’ve been playing this on-line game.  It’s a MMORPG (I can’t believe I remembered that whole thing) and I play a priest in a guild of mages, fighters, archers, etc.  What I find entertaining about it is not the game-play, but the collaboration that is necessary to make the game...
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Recent Recognition

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