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Redefining HRO
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Jason Corsello recently posted a great analysis of the state of HRO. His take is that the industry is on it’s 3rd generation of development, and the description of these 3 generations is so priceless that I thought I’d repost…
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Longer Term HRO Viability as Change Management
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I’ve always been fascinated by HRO and it’s been a constant topic here on systematicHR since the beginning. While it certainly would seem to make sense that sharing resources across a variety of organizations would save some money, there’s always…
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Defining the MidMarket – Does It Exist?
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What is the mid-market? I define it as somewhere between 10,000 and 25,000 employees. Some organizations go as low as 1,000 employees. Certainly there’s a disparity in the definition, but the employee count is not nearly as important as some…
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Workstream Talent Update
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The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly underserved. My take is that the mid market is somewhere around…
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HR Function KPI’s
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HR function KPI’s are defined the same way as Human Capital KPI’s except that they are internally focused, rather than focused on the broader organization. One should not be blind to the large amount of overlap that the two types…
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Human Capital KPI’s
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HR key performance indicators can be both incredibly difficult or quite simple to generate, depending on the type of indicator you’re looking for. The main problem with your KPI’s is that you need to first make the switch between simple…
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We Don’t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent
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A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school students. While this trend has been going on in the U.S….
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Generation Y Mobile Technology: The Future of Work
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I’m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR. However, I was listening to yet another ZDnet interview with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology. “…desire…
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Redefining Innovation
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The American Heritage Dictionary simply defines innovation as “The act of introducing something new.” ((American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com on April 3, 2007.)) ZDnet has a pretty nice CIO interview series. In one of them, Steve Cooper, the CIO…
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What Innovation Looks Like (really)
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Image information in footnote ((Research and node layout by Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans; data from Thompson ISI; graphics & typography by W. Bradford Paley. Commissioned and partially supported by Katy Borner and the Places and Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition….
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Educating for a Lifetime
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With rapid changes in technology, the business environment, and the dynamic nature of knowledge usability in the modern world, managing one’s career becomes increasingly difficult. Necessity dictates that employees not only change careers more often as their interests change and…
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Change Management Quotes
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The change management blog had a great list of change quotes. I built my own list, basically to address the CM theme I’ve been drilling for the last two years that change management is not about training and communications (that’s…
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Training Salespeople
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Miller Heiman has the ever popular “blue sheet” sales training, and there are many others like it. Teaching sales people how to sell isn’t necessarily the type of training that’s going to bring you higher revenues though. Years about Nabisco…
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Recruiting and Selecting Salespeople
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It would be absurd for me to tell you how to attract salespeople. So I won’t. Sales is so highly specialized based on the target markets, the product mix, the region that very few tactics are universal. However, Gallup has…
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Happiness vs. Engagement
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All too often the pursuit of happiness has been equated with the pursuit of money or a better job (a.k.a. money). Even Will Smith’s latest movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” which I think…
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Great HR Podcast Ideas
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I’ve been thinking about how would could both communicate through podcasts. Certainly there are the obvious applications. If you do a corporate meeting, why not record it and make it available for download? If the President of the U.S. gets…
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Defining Employee Engagement
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In 2006, The Conference Board published “Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications”. According to this report, twelve major studies on employee engagement had been published over the prior four years by top research firms such as…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
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This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and product actually gets done. Sure we have our formal organizational hierarchies,…
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(Not) Measuring Employee Productivity
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More and more we’ve been seeing increased interest in some “real” employee metrics. Instead of looking at things like employee satisfaction, I’ve been talking about profit per employee and the chain of linkages between the engagement score and the profit…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Motivation
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If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon. ((Despair.com)) I found this despair.com entry quite interesting on several levels….