systematicHR
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Mid Market HRO
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HRO is well established as a trend for the next several years, and it is more than reasonable that the mid market will begin adopting this fairly expensive service offering. In fact, I’d suggest that over 100 mid market companies…
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My Vision and Hope for SaaS
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There’s a great opportunity that SaaS has. As I think about these vendors with applications hosting scores of medium and large clients on a single installation of an application, on a single (cluster of) box(es), I envision this incredible opportunity…
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SaaS: Focus on Results
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Interesting post on ZDNet’s SaaS blog about the evolution of the application and the focus on the technology vs. the business results – misleading but interesting: Whenever customers have to physically implement an application on their own premises, the conversation…
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ADP Aquires Employease
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OK, as ths Employease press release says, they only agreed to do so, but it’s a great move assuming it gets past all the regulatory stuff. ((Got this through Phoenix INformation Managmenet.)) The (pending) acquisition is a great move for…
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HR Technology, Branding and Environmentalism
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Going where I never thought I’d go… But the HRIQ blog wrote this page about the amount of waste generated by a workplace in a single year. Apparently the average worker can throw away ONE QUARTER OF A TONNE OF…
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RSS in HR
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I was reading “Branding the Feed” in Business 2.0 Magazine ((Heilemann, John, July 2006. “Branding the Feed.” Business 2.0, Volume 7, Number 6. Page 42.)) about Dick Costolo’s Feedburner strategy (If you read this site through a feed, it’s coming…
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HR Function Commoditization – The Future of HR
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57 years ago ADP commoditized payroll. You have 100 earnings codes, a specific set of parameters each code can have, and if you want to go outside those parameters, you can’t. Many see this as a bad thing, but this…
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Stopping the Talent Drain
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This site has many recurring themes, but here are 2 of the most popular: There’s a talent drain and it’s only getting worse. Compensation is no way to retain your highest performers. Obviously I was struck when I read “Stopping…
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PS vs SAP: Part 2
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In the last entry I wrote “that the only HR departments that go on SAP are the ones that are forced to do so by their CEO.” While there’s some truth to this, I’ve also written in the past that…
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PS vs SAP: Part 1
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There are lots of snobs out there: those that won’t outsource to anyone but ADP, those that think they are superior because they work in compensation, and consultants who think their way is better before they even consult. The snobbery…
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The True Costs of Unionization
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In an attempt to be apolitical (which is truly difficult for me), I was reading a New York Times article about United mechanics entering into a training program after layoffs. The success rate of returning those mechanics was dismal if…
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The Industry Radar
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Along with Michal Specht’s hrblogs.org site, there’s another new HR aggregator that is doing an incredible job bringing quality content to the masses called the Industry Radar. (I’m big on alternatives to SHRM and other mainstream sites). The site has…
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A Workflow Primer
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No content post today – I just wanted to introduce the readership to a resource I found. Actually, it’s an Oracle workflow primer, but it’s only chapter 1, and therefore a great overview on the topic in general. I found…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
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I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the coming decades, and there are too many large shoes to fill. …
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Performance Management Integration
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Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new…
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6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
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(A response to Jason Corsello) Usually I would say rebuttal instead of response, but Jason has this one right on. If you don’t read his site, start now by going there to see his comments on all of the below. …
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Major Problem
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What’s the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless ad doing with great efficiency what should not be…
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Job
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What is the manager’s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite – and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in…
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Creating Strategy
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I’ve always thought of strategy as a single, focused concept. The strategy might be philosophical or there might be a concrete goal at the end of it. For example, philosophical strategies are things like “Employer of Choice.” You probably have…
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The Keys to Employee Motivation
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At systematicHR, we sit around talking about (reading about) ideas like employee engagement and employer brand a lot. These are quite simple concepts to understand, but actually quite difficult to implement and achieve successfully. In terms of talent, the employer…