systematicHR
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Letting Leaders Recharge
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Jim Hollincheck at the BlogERP site wrote an interesting piece about sabbaticals and the effect of knowledge workers burning out. As with most people, I first learned of sabbaticals when I was in college and couldn’t take a course I…
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Does Anyone Get Employer Branding?
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As usual, Regina is right: My take though is that it is difficult if not impossible for employees to deliver a customer experience if they in fact are not operating and living in a culture that offers them a really…
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The Future of UI
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One of the reasons I write so much about the user interface (UI), portals and SOA is that I believe HR technology’s future is very much about how we engage and increase end user adoption. In an increasingly dispersed global…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 2
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Are there times your technology suite should look like a salad bowl? Absolutely yes. First of all, depending on your particular sourcing strategy, you might actually want your suite to be made from disparate technology vendors. If you choose a…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 1
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When I went to college, the big thing in the interpretation of American ethic culture was a debate about a melting pot or a salad bowl. In honesty, they are nice images – in a melting pot, all ethnicities represented…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 6
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4. Managing ongoing change HR.com thinks we need to get a seat at the proverbial table (see part 1 of the series). I think we already have it, but we need to keep it. There’s one thing we have in…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 5
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3. Workforce Strategy – U.S. Domestic Labor Pool and developing tomorrow’s leaders The theoretical “shrinking talent pool” doesn’t have to have a huge effect on your organization. We’re all anticipating it (we’ve heard enough about it and even I’ve written…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 4
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2. Lowering the Cost of HR Operations As I said a couple of says ago, I don’t care about getting HR a “seat at the table.” We should already be there. What I care about is getting HR to stay…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 3
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1. Engaging my workforce I’ve certainly done my part writing about engagement, and so have many other people. For today’s article, I thought I’d let someone else do the talking. From management-issues.com, Andy Parsley writes about the service-profit chain: The…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 2
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So obviously being dissatisfied with the HR.com list of leading concerns, I had to make up my own list. The following is the systematicHR version of what I think should be keeping you up at night. What keeps you up…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 1
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I got an e-mail from HR.com (actually I get several spams a day) advertising one of their conferences. In this particular one, they posed the question “What keeps you up at night?” Their responses for the most part made me…
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ADP Acquires Virtual Edge Talent Acquisition
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In a great move by ADP, they finally got their hands on a great talent acquisition system. Truthfully, they have been on the hunt for several years, but the deals seemed to keep falling through. This time though, ADP struck…
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Changing the Game: SOA and Business Intelligence
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just an enabler of business process and data integration. It allows your business intelligence engine to function as a single entity rather than multiple components. Historically, you’ve always had a reporting/query tool, an OLAP…
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Changing the Game: SOA and Business Process
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Similar to the enablement of applications to the web in the late 90’s, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a major paradigm shift in how we do and think about business processes and the data that supports it. SOA is really…
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Shaping the Workforce through Business Intelligence
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I’ve previously defined HR strategy as any direction that “shapes the workforce.” Whether this is creating an employer brand that influences they type of people you recruit, creating talent policies that allow your employees to excel, or nurturing a culture…
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Brad Pitt’s Love Child (at Talentism.com)
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Jeff Hunter answers the question if he is having Brad Pitt’s love child here. Truth be told, I’m frightened by this thought. He also answers the secrets to having a successful website: Post frequently. Write stuff that matters to you…
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ERP – Vendor Updates
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I did a thing back in August about SAP versus PeopleSoft. (Parts 1 and 2) I really should have done an SAP versus Oracle. To be honest, I have no intention of doing in depth comparisons of technology or functionality…
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Traditional Outsourcers – Vendor Updates
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Outsourcers: This is a rather boring category as there are only 2 traditional outsourcers worth mentioning. However, the last several years have been interesting for both of them, but I’ll back up an entire decade since many people I talk…
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Talent Acquisition Systems Updates
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I’ve been remiss in my lack of system and vendor updates. Truth be told, not much has actually changed in the vendor landscape other than a few mergers. The vendors I liked last year and early this year are the…
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Creating Strategy Part 4
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Here’s part 4: 9. Think Scenarios, not Predictions ((Millard, Rob, June 5, 2006. “Increasing Your Strategic Clock Speed.” Retrieved from…