HRO
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Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?
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Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results. It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them…
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Some Things Should Never Be Outsourced?
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I’m not talking about the highly transactional stuff like payroll, benefits, or technology. In general, there’s a huge return on some of the administrative and transactional processes. What we’re…
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Hewitt’s Lessons Learned
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From time to time companies exhibit moments of organizational maturity not often enough seen in the market. This week’s moment comes to us courtesy of Hewitt Associates’ Mike Wright,…
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Mid Market HRO
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HRO is well established as a trend for the next several years, and it is more than reasonable that the mid market will begin adopting this fairly expensive service…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 3
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What to do now? Some organizations are great at redefining roles. Others are terrible. Honestly, it’s part of the change management process, but again, some are great at change…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 2
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Coping with the loss of friends and associates (the guilty survivor) One of the worst things for both management and the retained organization is deciding and coping with the…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 1
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Who are you? With the recent glut of HRO and other outsourcing deals, it’s obvious that some employees are going to be invited to stick around, and others will…
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How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save?
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I set this article aside some time ago with the intention of commenting on it at some point. Now is as good a time as any. The story, “Survey:…
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Shake up at Hewitt
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The rumors have been around in the market for some time now, but this past week it showed up in print: What does surprise Pramuk and other experts, however,…
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HRO IT Platforms
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HRO Today has an article out there descrbing their take on the technology platform evolution within the HRO space. They pay particular interest to Oracle and SAP which is…
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HRO Vendor Positioning (Scorecard)
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Accenture: Accenture is like ExcellerateHRO and Hewitt. With a great HR consulting group and an ability to execute the technology, Accenture was in the market early enough to capture…
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HRO Trends
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So what’s going on in HRO these days? Here’s a summary of a few things I’m thinking about. Global HRO – Global HRO has existed for a while, but…
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3 Levels of HRO
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Quickly emerging are three clear types of HRO services. There is the basic HRO, full HRO and integrated BPO. Basic HRO is mostly for mid-sized organizations and organizations with…
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ExcellerateHRO Ranked An HRO Leader
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I thought it interesting that ExcellerateHRO was recently ranked a leader among the HRO vendors. Recently winning their first large contract with Cardinal Helath, they may have more coming…..
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Excellerate HRO’s First Win
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And it’s a big one. I have no idea what the net value of this deal is, but rumors around the blogosphere have been circulating for a couple months…
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PEO vs. HRO again.
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I got an e-mail from a reader about PEO v HRO: What is your advice to a company (100-1000) on what TYPE of outsourcing would be best for their…
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Top HRO Deals of 2005
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I might be a bit behind on the news and it’s entirely possible this has been posted elsewhere. However, HRO Today Magazine posted their top 22 HRO deals of…
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing for Healthcare
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I stumbled across this company, Pinstripe, that does RPO for healthcare. Now, I personally don’t really care one way or another about this specific company, but the concept of…
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HRO Superstars
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Through Hager Strategic I found HRO Today’s listing of 2006 HRO Superstars. Really quite a nice list of who’s who in HRO from a vendor and client standpoint. It…
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HRO Strategy Guide
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Sometimes a firm actually publishes a study that is neither ‘salesy’ or full of common sensical information that we already knew. Deloitte put out a “Making HR Business Process…