systematicHR
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PMO vs Project Management
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Most larger organizations have a program management office (PMO) which deploys program and project managers to projects throughout the organization. In many cases, people use the terms program and project management interchangeably. This however, is totally incorrect. As usual, here’s…
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HRO IT Platforms
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HRO Today has an article out there descrbing their take on the technology platform evolution within the HRO space. They pay particular interest to Oracle and SAP which is quite predictable. While not mentioning that SAP is the clear leader…
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HRO Vendor Positioning (Scorecard)
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Accenture: Accenture is like ExcellerateHRO and Hewitt. With a great HR consulting group and an ability to execute the technology, Accenture was in the market early enough to capture great market share. Unlike Hewitt, they have great flexibility in their…
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HRO Trends
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So what’s going on in HRO these days? Here’s a summary of a few things I’m thinking about. Global HRO – Global HRO has existed for a while, but the vendors keep expanding the offerings to more remote countries. However,…
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3 Levels of HRO
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Quickly emerging are three clear types of HRO services. There is the basic HRO, full HRO and integrated BPO. Basic HRO is mostly for mid-sized organizations and organizations with fewer than 20K employees. Full HRO may be for any larger…
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Ineffective Communications
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I was checking out ((I got there through the Employee Portals 2.0 blog)) Watson Wyatt’s effective communication report ((Watson Wyatt. “Effective Communication: A Leading Indicator of Financial Performance – 2005/2006 Communication ROI Study”, Retrieved from http://www.watsonwyatt.com on May 7, 2006.))…
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An Interview With SuccessFactors
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I had an opportunity to speak with Rob Bernshteyn from SuccessFactors about the direction they are heading. I’ll admit that SuccessFactors has been one of my favorite talent management vendors for a long time. I have always thought of them…
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The Future of HR Technology
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I’m looking at a convergence of talent, portals and business intelligence. The next wave of technology is not around any specific functionalty. The next wave is going to be about integration with the rest of the business. Talent, portal and…
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Does HR Technology Define HR Strategy?
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Or does HR strategy define HR technology? The honest answer is probably both, but I’m going to argue that HR technology leads more often than not. It isn’t that strategy does not contribute to new functionality, but technology opens so…
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The Future of Talent
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Forget about talent management. What we need is talent development. Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group and The Human Capitalist wrote about emerging talent management software trends a few weeks ago. As part of those trends, a Yankee Group survey…
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Is Talent Management Strategic?
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Talent Management in and of itself is not a strategic function. Similar to core HR practices, the actual task and process isn’t strategic. One should be especially careful with Talent Management Systems (TMS). No system (TMS, HRMS, or anything else)…
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What isn’t Strategic HR?
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HR Strategy is any activity to shape the workforce for the purpose of enhancing the business operational requirements. Anything can be strategic, but tasks are not when mis-applied to the wrong objectives. HR is here to support business critical functions….
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What is Strategic HR?
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You know, everyone hates the words “HR Strategy.” I hate it, you hate it, and everyone I know hates it. The problem is that very few of us can readily define it. The facts are that I’m going to define…
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Talent Management System Vendor List
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Stumbled across one of the longest lists of talent management vendors I’ve seen. To be honest, I don’t know many of these. As many of you know, I don’t consider recruiting only solutions to be talent management (TMS), but a…
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SAP Offers On-Demand
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Is Software as Service in the realm of possibility for SAP? Probably not. Even though I’ve written about SAP in a vanilla, hosted model, I don’t think much of this approach. To be totally honest, if you are complex and…
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Social Networks in HRIT
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Are we all really six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon? Yes Are there other uses of social networking other than Kevin Bacon? Yes Can HRIT employ social networks into their strategy? No Social networks are an informal version of…
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What Software as a Service Means To You
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Before discussing Software as a Service (SaaS), we really need to understand the roots of the term and technology. Recognizing that SaaS stems from the older application service provider (ASP) model, I’d like to distinguish the differences between the two….
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SOA and SaaS – The Future of Enterprise HR
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Is ERP dead? Well, not really. At least not in the enterprise HR market. Net yet anyway. cryptic enough?) The truth is that there isn’t anyone out there looking to compete with Oracle and SAP over the enterprise HR market…
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Current Topics in Business Intelligence
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Siebel Analytics is the first step to Fusion While the Siebel acquisition brought market-leading CRM to Oracle’s portfolio, executives have repeatedly referred to Siebel Analytics, technology that Siebel itself bought with the acquisition of nQuire in 2001, as the “hidden…
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Business Intelligence Vendors
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Given my last post, I’m not going to talk about ad hoc tools. Rather I’ll cover the true BI suites that also encompass ad hoc tools. Here’s my list of vendors – these are all top vendors and all of…