HR Technology
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine behind e2.0, but as usual I have a few comments. I…
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Integrating Talent Applications (Suites)
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As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we are used to expecting with more mature applications like HRIS, payroll…
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Diagramming Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0
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I like pictures. CIPD published a paper that was honestly quite annoying, but contained a couple of little gems. I was annoyed because the paper was entitled Web 2.0 and HR, but it never got past defining what Web 2.0…
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HRIS Support
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Computer Economics does a survey about the TCO of IT support for ERP applications. While the executive summary is almost totally useless, it’s obvious that in HR, HRIS support and HR dedicated IT support is almost always understaffed and under…
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Complex Problem Solving and Change Management
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Serious hat tip to Rob Millard Rob wrote about this over 2 years ago, but the picture still exists and I stumbled upon it months ago, and then had a second look a couple weeks ago. Rob pointed me to…
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Stages in Talent Management Maturity
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The taleo blog recently wrote a piece about the sages of maturity for talent management solutions. I actually like this 4 stage continuum, and think it applies to more than just talent management suites. STAGE 1: Companies use automated core…
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The Stupidity of Crowds
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I have a lot of favorite bloggers. I think I’ve tipped my virtual hat over to Rob Millard quite often here, but I was going backwards in time reading some of his old posts and got to reflecting on an…
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HR’s Long Tail
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I’ll be honest – I’m a bit sick of talking about the long tail. We’re all so enamored by talking about is as if it makes us all business theorists. I find that half of us don’t really know what…
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Degrees of SaaS
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I’ve been quite curious over the last year at the differing definitions of multi-tenancy that are given by multiple SaaS vendors. Admittedly not being a SaaS expert, or an expert in building and housing a multi-tenant application, I’ve found the…
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Wiki as Knoweldge Management
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We all have them in our organizations. These wonderful islands of preserved knowledge: databases of content that have been donated over time for consumption by the broader corporate population. Once the dreams and hopes of management types that have dwindled…
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Engagement Over: Workstream-Empagio
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Why Workstream wanted to be tied to Empagio in the first place never quite made sense to me. When their merger was announced several months ago, everyone knew Workstream needed some cash to continue with their R&D and sales goals. …
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CedarCrestone 2008-2009 HR Systems Survey
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It’s not often that you get to see the results of a survey before the submission deadline is up, but Lexy Martin shared a few preliminary numbers with me. While these are very preliminary numbers, it’s interesting to see the…
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Growth and Sustainability – Where Does HR Fit In?
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Global warming on the minds of executives. They may not actually care, but they realize that the growth of their business will partly depend on the sustainability of their products and the consciousness around environmental issues that the company can…
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US Businesses for Sale?
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Back in I guess what was the 80’s, there was all the rage over Japanese money buying US property and business. Well times have changed and there is an interesting dichotomy going on. Now, the U.S. economy is outsourcing to…
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HR Budgets & the Economy
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The economy is in the tank, and while predictions are that things will get better in 2009, many HR leaders are doing budgets right now. The problem with recessions and HR is that HR budgets often take longer to come…
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Where People Fit in the Toyota Way
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A while back I wrote a series on the Toyota Way. Toyota is unquestionably one of the top manufacturing companies in the world producing high quality products at a very low cost. At the center of this is the Toyota…
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HBR on Service Oriented Architecture
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Far be it for feeble minded me to critique HBR’s SOA article entitled “Then Next Revolution in Productivity,” ((HBR June 2008, pg 73)) but that’s what I’ll do anyway. While I’m a firm believer that SOA and that we’ll see…
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Will the Real Oracle Fusion Middleware Please Stand Up?
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It’s not mystery that Oracle’s Fusion Middleware product was really only a half baked cobbling of old products when it was released a couple years ago. Much like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” sign, Oracle proclaimed “Half Way to Fusion!” We all…
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Better Recruiting Through Social Networks?
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Jobvite released their new survey on the utilization of social networks for recruiting. Most of this is not a surprise as recruiting seems to be the early adopter for some new HR technologies well ahead of everyone else. Remember recruiting…
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Rethinking the Career Ladder
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Most career ladders go something like this • Associate 1 –> Associate 2 –> Professional 1 –> Professional 2 –> Senior Pro Ladder • Associate 1 –> Associate 2 –> Professional 1 –> Management Ladder It’s all really quite predictable. …