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The Art of Story
Read more: The Art of StoryWhether you are at a conference watching a videographer recording the event, or witnessing a $100M film getting made, the process of recording to final editing is always the…
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HR isn’t a people business anymore
This is kind of an interesting post for anyone who still thinks HR is an administrative function and for people who want to enter HR because they are people…
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HRO prices going down for small business
This Inc. article is a nice review of costs of HRO for smaller businesses. Although I really don’t focus on small business, it’s difficult to provide economies of scale…
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Sungard is going private
In a surprising move (to me) Sungard is going private with the purchase of the company by a group of investors. Why is this important to HR? There are…
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Mellon HRMS Survey for 2005 – Immature HRO Industry
Again, here’s another somewhat self serving HRMS survey, but Mellon actually surveyed a couple hundred HR and finance professionals, so it looks pretty good and objective. Also, Mellon was…
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SHRM and NPR – just a personal pet peeve
OK – this has nothing to do with actual HR operations or technology, but it really irks me that NPR is sponsored by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)….
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How Interest rate hikes affect ROI
As interest rates keep inching higher, HR professionals often have trouble with creating ROI presentations that are meaningful to financial executives. This week, Greenspan announced that there is some…
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IT doesn’t want technology, top management does!!
In a bizzar twist, AT Kearny announced a new survey saying that IT professionals were less likely to want to be on the “bleeding edge” of technology than many…
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Aon’s self serving press release and ROI
I promise I will do a post on ROI in the near future. This is a bit of a rant about consutling company studies that are publisehd in trade…
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Sarbanes Oxley and a case for Outsourcing
Thought I’d take a minute to comment on Deloitte’s top 10 problems for financial reporting in 2005. See it here Note that the top 2 items are very HR…
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Watson Wyatt weighs in on Bush’s Social Security plan
In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions on W’s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me…