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Transitions
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Soul searching is always an interesting time. Whether it’s deciding what priorities there are in your HR department as you attempt to polish off any remaining budget you have for 2008, knowing that little budget will exist in 2009, or…
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You may have noticed
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That systematicHR has been dealing with various site issues.? We finally have access to our servers again, and will be up and running as soon as possible. Thanks! -Dubs
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String Theory and Particles
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As long as I’m writing about the Hadron Collider, I might as well write about string theory. I’m not sure how to simplify this for non-scientists (I’m not one either obviously) but here goes: String theory basically states that within…
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Large Investments in Technology
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Perhaps I’m just a nerd, but I’ve been following the developments of the Hadron Collider for a while now. In terms of physics, there have been many theories abounding, but with the lack of ability to look into the tiniest…
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What is a Center of Expertise?
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In our traditional 3-circle HR service delivery models (Ulrich model really), one of the major components is the center of excellence or center of expertise (COE). The COE has never really evolved over time, but perhaps it’s ripe to do…
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Changing Talent Strategies for HR Strategies
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So how many people do you have? What are their competencies? What is the total aggregated of any particular competency in your entire employee base? What is the engagement level for each of those employee populations for those competencies? Do…
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The History and Future of HR Technology
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The history of HR technologies has for many years been about functionality. We have been increasing functionality levels for a couple of decades now. Even the recent robust growth of talent management applications has been about functionality. Vendors are fighting…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – HP: Managing By Walking Around
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Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. He initially opens the conversation by talking about some of the many innovations HP has developed over the years. One of the early HR innovations was the idea…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – The Un-Siloing of HR
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Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. (sorry Bill, I’m a bit behind on listening to my iPod) One of the insights that I picked up on was the integration and matrixing of the HR…
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Why We Don’t Need HR
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Simon Baker wrote a piece that was not as inflammatory as the well known “Why We Hate HR” article a couple years ago. I found it quite entertaining and thought it deserved a response. Simon has a couple of good…
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The Singularity
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What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to self replicate, they are able to generate knowledge at a supremely…
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Turnover in the Collaboration Network
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A collaboration network is made up of many different types of nodes. There are people in the organization that are subject matter experts, there are people who seem to know everyone else and everything that is going on in the…
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Cover-ups
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Up through the Beijing Olympics, I’d been reading stories almost on a daily basis about how China was trying to present a public image of itself that was not necessarily the truth. Limited access for journalists (to protect the athletes?): …
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Cycling Concepts and HR: It’s Not About the Bike
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I’m most certainly an advocate that the greatest, most expensive bike you can buy simply must make you faster. You’ll obviously climb better, sprint faster, ride longer. I support this model by having a very nice bike, custom built by…
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Social Media, Gen Y and the Workplace
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Michael Specht linked over to some survey results presented by Microsoft and Insurity. There were a couple of interesting findings and in my opinion they certainly do point to our need to change how the workplace operates, not only for…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Team Time Trials
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In the team time trial, a group of cyclists (usually 4) will ride as a single unit using the technology of their bikes and ever possible advantage of drafting they can get. Like a well oiled machine, a single rider…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Time Trials
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In cycling, the time trial is also known as the race of truth. It is the only time in cycling (triathlons excluded as that’s not real cycling…) where you are not allowed to draft or engage in team tactics. In…
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The Realities of Integrated UI
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Anu posted this image of simplicity for user interface designs. While it’s a bit of a caricature on how Apple and Google have designed their UI’s, it’s really quite accurate at a basic level. Everything you need to do is…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Drafting
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There are actually quite a few HR bloggers who are also cyclists. Thomas Otter is a leading candidate, as are the other Systematic and Jeff Hunter. I’ll also join the cyclist crew, although not nearly as gung-ho as I used…
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine behind e2.0, but as usual I have a few comments. I…