systematicHR
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CedarCrestone 2007 Analytics Report
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CedarCrestone recently pushed out their 2007 Analytics survey. While I’m not sure my own experience matches theirs, there are some interesting trends to at least be noted. You can find their full version of the survey here. In general, when…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
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It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since my last official conversation with them as the writer and publisher…
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Leading Top Talent
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In a prior post, I noted that talent management’s role in engaging top talent was not related to the processes that are so popular in systems and magazines today. Instead, managing the most talented has more to do with changing…
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Over Managing Top Talent
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So who is your top talent? Basically it’s those few people who feel like they don’t really work all that hard to out produce 95% of your workforce. That’s of course a simple definition, but this group of people are…
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Why Payroll Hates HR
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Generally, I find that any time payroll reports to Finance and not HR, there is a pretty strained relationship. After all, these are organizations that work closely together because of their relationship with the employee data, but these are organizations…
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Middle Market HRO Convergence
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We’ve long talked about the large HRO organizations trying to go after the middle market. After all, how many companies out there can afford a 10 year contract valued at $500M? With large HRO contracts closing in on 200 contracts,…
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The Self Service Experience
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Every vendor you ever meet will tell you how much time and money your organization will save by implementing self service tools and workflow automation. It’s definitely true that the initiative to go paperless has shifted work, but whether or…
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Shifting from Higher Education to the Workplace
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So you get in college these days, and in addition to the great classroom experiences, you have great on-line discussion tools where you can post questions and solve problems with other classmates. You turn in all of your assignments on-line…
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Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking
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Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago. People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and then often left the organization leaving little trace of the knowledge…
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Wyatt Gets into Talent Software
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Mercer once had a benefits administration offering that they ended up selling to ADP. Then they partnered with SynHRgy (spelling?) to get into HRO. That didn’t pan out so well either. Towers Perrin has a partnership with Excellerate HRO (EDS)…
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Does Web 2.0 Suck?
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Michael thinks web 2.0 sucks. Actually, he doesn’t, he’s the biggest user of new technologies I know. But enterprise users have been slow to adopt the technology. I talked about capturing collaboration networks in HR using web 2.0 technologies, but…
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How to Lie With Analytics
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I was listening to a presentation being given by a timekeeping vendor. Within the demonstration, a report was run providing a detail of when people decided to take sick days, and the report stated that the large majority of sick…
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HR Success in 100 Days
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Mercer has a nice little write-up about your first 100 days as the CHRO of an organization. Here are five things Mercer says your should be thinking about. 1. Connect the goals of the HR function to the goals of…
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Agility Methods and Project Governance
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Governance and scope creep is always one of the major problems in any project. Limited resources and continuous demand from non-project needs both elongate projects and spread resources too thin. I was speaking with a technology friend about project governance…
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AJAX User Interface in HR
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Much commotion was made about AJAX last year when it took hold in the web marketplace. Certainly the web applications of it are marvelous and bloggers like myself spent much time wondering where it would go and what forms it…
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Innovation in Human Capital Management
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In my existential search for meaning in HR, I’ve tried for a very long time to understand what HR could really do for the business. Certainly talent and our ability to contribute to directing talent’s growth through talent management is…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided – don’t predict organizational performance.” ((Bassi, Laurie and McMurrer, Daniel, March…
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Ceridian Goes Private
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I’m a bit late with this one, but I wanted to provide some analysis as to what I think this means for Ceridian and their clients. The Ceridian Corporation, a human resources company, said last night that it had sold…
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Revisiting HR 2.0
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I’m not sure anyone knows what HR 2.0 actually is. I’ve taken my shots a few times, but more often than not I’ve been talking about HR’s role in innovation. Terrance pointed out a conversation that’s been going on at…
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HR’s Decision Support
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SHRM’s study of HR technology competencies (no link, but easy to find if you’re a member) revealed some not so surprising facts last year. According to them (and every other study we get out of the HR vendor industry) more…