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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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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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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It’s that time of year again, for what Bill Kutik of the HR Technology Conference calls “the most thorough, highly respected and useful survey on technology usage in HR.” Each year, I send out a link to the readers of systematicHR to fill out this thing. The more respondents, the better the insights the...
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Thanks to all my readers, collaborators and mentors. I made John Sumser’s list for the top 100 Influencers in HR.
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. As a child, whenever I would screw up, my mother always said, “Why can’t you be more like Billy?” Billy was a straight-A student who excelled in every sport with which he was involved – an all-around “wunderkind” who could do no wrong. Needless to say, I didn’t...
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I recently talked to an organization who is moving their organization from one end of the city to the opposite far end of the same area. The commuting time between the cities is about 40 minutes, and some employees would benefit and have reduced commute, others would certainly pick up longer train or car...
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Well, it’s been a full week now, and I feel like I have enough information to formulate a decent opinion on the merger between Towers and Wyatt. Here goes: Was this a merger, or an acquisition? Well, to be honest, my first reaction to this was that Wyatt got the upper hand. I think...
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I was recently getting caught up on some blog reading and noticed Josh Bersin’s post on the Talent Management Software Slump. I’m not sure if I’m just a pessimist, but I thought I’d post a reply. (granted, Josh wrote his post in early May… Despite this difficult Q1, we believe the market is going...
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No pun intended. But I’m troubled and I don’t get it. This morning the acting CFO over at Freddie Mac committed suicide. He was brought in after the bailout, so theoretically he should not have a ton of direct responsibility over the causes of the current economic crisis. People seem to be committing suicide...
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It will be interesting to see what the SuccessFactors executives say on their 4th quarter performance results, and even more so for their projections for 2009. Given that they just did an across the board layoff1 it would be hard for them to say that they are still projecting strong growth. This goes for...
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LinkedIn is expanding it’s corporate recruiting functionality today with Talent Advantage. Really, all of the functionality is old stuff that has been rebranded. There is a new “Custom Company Profile” which I think has existed in one form or another for some time, but now has new functionality for employer branding and some cool...
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Being that Workday is announcing their Fall 2008 update today, I figured it was a s good a time as any to get this site back up and running again. As probably the most hyped vendor in the HR space this year, they have still had impressive growth with 67 current total clients and...
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There are a few conferences that I think are great. There are others I think are pretty mundane. The great ones are about content, the mundane about sales, vendors, and vendor presentation. One of the great ones is the HR Technology Conference in Chi-town annually. We’re always interested in things like the vendor shootouts,...
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It’s not often that you get to see the results of a survey before the submission deadline is up, but Lexy Martin shared a few preliminary numbers with me. While these are very preliminary numbers, it’s interesting to see the directionality of the numbers. She was thinking that with the down-economy, that some of...
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It’s not mystery that Oracle’s Fusion Middleware product was really only a half baked cobbling of old products when it was released a couple years ago. Much like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” sign, Oracle proclaimed “Half Way to Fusion!” We all waited expectantly for either a set of Fusion applications to be as half baked...
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Jobvite released their new survey on the utilization of social networks for recruiting. Most of this is not a surprise as recruiting seems to be the early adopter for some new HR technologies well ahead of everyone else. Remember recruiting systems was a major market before any other point solutions (outside of benefits and...
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I haven’t written about HRO for a very long time. Part of it could be just my simple disillusionment of the space. The outsourcing of payroll and benefit transactions make total sense to me as they are complete commodities. If we talk about F&A (finance) the transactional side of procurement, AP and AR at...
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I suppose that I do need to put together a list of things I’m especially interested in this year. Many of these are already trends. Some of these will never be, but are things perhaps only I am interested in. Other ideas might actually emerge in 2008. The War for Talent: People will realize...
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So I took a brief 3 week pause from writing in December and quite a bit happened. Here is a brief summary of the news: December 4: Reuters reported a rumor that Microsoft was looking at a possible acquisition of SAP. While I find this highly unlikely, and while rumors of this also happened...
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