systematicHR
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Market Salary Rates
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The HR Capitalist had a post the other day about pricing candidate salaries. But as usual, I have my own opinions. Say it with me – the market rate for any candidate is the $$ amount they will accept. They’ve…
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HRO is not Dead
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HRO has seemed dead for at least a couple of years now. A couple years ago it was almost all I was writing about, and there were mega deals to be had every other month. All consultants were talking about…
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The Marketing of Snowflakes
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If you ever look at a snowflake dangling from the window at your local Macy’s or Bloomingdales, realize that this snowflake is only a piece of marketing, there to draw your eye, but not an accurate representation of reality. You…
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Tater Tots and Truffle Oil
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I was chatting to Lexy Martin about a month ago, discussion the blog and how I write about cycling and HR all the time, trying to reach lame analogies. It was apparent in our conversation that I really have two…
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Year End Post and Site Redesign
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Since I figure the great majority of you are reading me on email, Google Reader or some other mechanism that allows you to never visit the site (I do it myself, certainly it’s not a criticism – lucky if I…
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SuccessFactors: Success = Strategy + Execution
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I was looking at a SuccessFactor’s employee laptop the other day and she had a huge sticker on it with the words “Success = Strategy + Execution.” I could not help wondering to myself if this was really the equation,…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology
M&A – Whose System Wins?
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I must say that sometimes M&A transitions are a pain in the *** for HR and HRIT practitioners. It’s quite rare in my experience that a merger will be a pure 50/50%, more often than not one of the merger…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – Karen Beaman Follow-up
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to…
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
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A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last few years, not because of any perceived lack of validity, thoroughness…
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The Bill Kutik Radio Show: Karen Beaman
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to…
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Kaizen Bursts
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I’ve been through a lot of process mapping sessions in my life. I’ve had the good opportunity to lead many, and also the opportunity to sit in and observe. It always surprises me how often the current state processes are…
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Cycling Technology: GPS
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Yeah, believe it or not, I have a GPS on my bike. It’s even a Garmin. With a push of a button I can go to a screen that either shows me how fast I’m going and what my heart…
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Makings of a Consultant
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I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter they are tackling. It’s helpful of course, but it’s actually not…
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Cycling Technology: Power Meters
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Cycling is an easy sport to figure out from a measurement perspective. Speed is a function of power output and weight (all other things held constant). So if you’re going uphill, the number of watts you generate as a factor…
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Questions
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As a consultant, I’m often tasked not only with putting an approach together to solve a problem, but actually identifying the problem altogether. It always amazes me that I’ll go in to do a project that has already been sold,…
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Cycling Technology: Gears
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There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing. In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes. Today, I still ride what is called a 10 speed, but it’s actually 20 if you directly…
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Top 100 Influencers: The Technologist
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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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Cycling Technology: Bike Frame Materials
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Karen Beaman wrote a guest post somewhere on the technology of tennis. I’ve occasionally written about cycling here, but thought I’d go into more detail on the technology of cycling and its impacts on performance. Cycling is actually one of…
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Unbundling HR
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Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems that we’ve been seeing for many years now. She is exactly right, that often times the unbundling of HR applications away from a central ERP system provides…
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What is a portal?
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We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self service and reporting tools portals, even though most of us don’t…