systematicHR

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    Attraction and Retention vs. Cost Containment

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    Deloitte and ISCEBS (International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists) recently pushed out their annual list of top 5 total rewards priorities for 2006Deloitte, 2006. “Top Five Total Rewards Priorities for 2006.” Retrieved from http://www.iscebs.org on January 31, 2006.. The group of individuals surveyed was ISCEBS members and Deloitte clients. Remember that the results are…

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    7 Habits of Effective Communications

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    While I’m not a “communicator” in HRIT we are often involved in communications at levels we don’t think about. Basically, any time we’re implementing a system that will include a form of manager or employee self service, or designing a report for distribution, we should be thinking about what the communication effect is. More broadly…

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    Talent Vaccuum – the next generation

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    Granted I’m playing up to all the sensationaliztic reports on talent and the U.S.’s inability to create an effective educational plan and environment to be competitive globally, I’m posting this commentary on workforce planning anyway. I was reading an article in the LA times that pointed to a school where the dropout rate of students…

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    Vendor or Client – Who’s Fault Is It?

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    I was speaking with Donald Glade from Sourcing Analytics the other day and through our discussion I realized I needed to follow-up on my post about “HR Technology Does Not Make Us Strategic.” As I went through my bullets of “dooming HR technology to failure,” I thought that a discussion on why the failures happen…

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    Talent Part 4 – What Does Talent Want?!?

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    Prior posts in this series Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement Talent Part 2 – Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization Yes… what do they want? And once we figure that out, how do we give it to them? So, does…

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    Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology Revisited

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    Last week I posted Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology and got a couple interesting comments. I thought this interesting enough to bring back to the foreground. First off, the post was really not about the HR effects of the decline in the workforce as baby boomers retire, but around the Economist’s social commentary that…

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    HRO Superstars

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    Through Hager Strategic I found HRO Today’s listing of 2006 HRO Superstars. Really quite a nice list of who’s who in HRO from a vendor and client standpoint. It also includes a list of advisors and advisory firms that I don’t generally talk about. Take a look.

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    HRO Strategy Guide

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    Sometimes a firm actually publishes a study that is neither ‘salesy’ or full of common sensical information that we already knew. Deloitte put out a “Making HR Business Process Outsourcing Work”Deloitte Consulting, November 9, 2005. “Making HR Business Process Outsourcing Work,” retrieved from http://www.deloitte.com on January 3, 2006. study/paper here. I’m not going to comment…

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    Wal Mart HMO – really…

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    Nope, I wasn’t kidding. Is there anything that the “great” Wal Mart won’t do or try? Wal Mart HMO press release. ExtendChoice(TM) is a defined contribution health care program that allows employers to provide their employees tax free dollars to be used to secure their own individual health insurance and/or pay for qualified medical expenses.…

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    ADP Benefit TCO study

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    ADP’s benefit TCO study presented some very interesting numbers as well as a few questions: First, I’m not at all surprised that outsourced benefit administration is less costly from a TCO (total cost of ownership) measure than in-house benefit admin. However, let’s look at some of the unspoken assumptions in the survey: The average size…

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    ACS for sale – $8B

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    Ok – I’m trying to not post at the end of the year, but this is news worth posting. A consortium of investment firms is in talks to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, a technology outsourcing company with clients that include General Electric and McDonald’s, for about $8 billion, people briefed on the negotiations said. The…

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    Technology, Automation, and Talent Case Studies

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    I found this article in CFO Magazine’s online Fall 2005 issue. The full text is quite long and located here. It is a well written piece by Scott Leibs from September 15, 2005. Anything in block quotes below is a direct excerpt. There are so many good examples of everything we’ve been discussion over the…

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    Tax Credit Screening (and a few $100K)

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    A few days ago, I got an e-mail from someone requesting my thoughts on Projectix. The e-mail said, “I would say it [is a] TMS program. Wouldn’t you?” A few e-mail exchanges later, I basically said that it was not a TMS system, it was an TAS system. This was actually being nice because when…

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    Google, Brand, Talent, Engagement

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    It was all wrapped into a single post from one of Michael’s link posts. In this google blogger page where Trisha Weir talks about how she got to be hired (partly by selling WHY she owned a Google t-shirt) I have to give some kudos to the recruiter and hiring manager for recognizing a couple…

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    KM and Learning organizations

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    Gautam turned me onto this blog. So… What IS up with HR and Knowledge Management? I don’t hesitate to wonder about HR’s motivation when it comes to KM. Truly, when we talk about “strategic HR” and the fact that as we head into 20xx we face huge workforce knowledge issues as a generation retires. We…

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    Accenture’s place in HRO

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    Jason of the Human Capitalist posted some analysis of Accenture’s seeming decline in the HRO world. While we differ slightly in our HRO rankings, I think we’ll see some interesting developments as Accenture begins to play in the mid market space. They are currently courting several prospects in the sub-20K employee market with what I…

  • Business Case for RPO

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    (where RPO = Recruitment Process Outsourcing) Jeff Hunter of the Talentism.com blog has a very interesting post on the causes of RPO. His experience is the same as mine… internal recruiting organizations with highly positive feedback are getting outsourced more and more. While I like Jeff’s conclusions about how to improve the recruiting function’s control…

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    HRO Updates

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    A couple of news items crossed my path that I thought were interesting. First, Arinso recently got certified in their SAS 70 Type 2. I’d like to just say that if you’re a public company in the U.S. going for full HRO (with benefits and payroll), please ask to see if your vendor has their…

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    Is ADP HRO #2 in the industry?

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    A recent ADP press release had a few interesting new facts. Apparently, 32 multi-national corporations have signed on for ADP’s HRO platform based on SAP. This is far more than I thought it would be, and in addition to ADP’s standard platform (ADP Enterprise) for U.S. domestic populations, I think this easily puts ADP in…

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    HR/PR Outsourcers – New Rankings

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    A reader recently wrote to me requesting my thoughts on payroll outsourcers and their HR products. This was written for a 500 employee organization. I’m posting because I don’t think I’ve ever ranked payroll outsourcers. Here are my verbatim comments below: I have not done any rankings purely on HR/Payroll outsourcers. Most of my knowledge…