HR Technology
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Vurv 4.0
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Ok – I admit it. I still hate the rebranded name, but they are still one of the leaders in talent. In October at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, they announced their 4.0 release. It has some nice features,…
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2007 HR Technology Conference In Non-Review
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I’m writing this one in response to Jason Corsello’s conference in review post. Mine however, is a non-review since I was not there. This kills me as I was registered, had a hotel room and everything, but was distracted at…
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Workstream Update
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Last week at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, Workstream released their newest 7.0 version of their talent management suite. While I have not seen a demo of the product live yet, this promises to be one of the most…
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The Internet in 2020
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project’s survey of technology professionals to evaluate what the internet might look like in the year 2020 yielded some interesting (selected) results with my commentary: The deployment of a global network: A majority of…
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How Social Networking Will End
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Colin Kingsbury wrote an interesting piece about the end of social networking (I’ve borrowed the title to his post as I’m getting much too lazy these days). He writes: Just to recap, Harry joined Facebook, and attempted to invite his…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 8
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Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes. I heard a rumor that I’ll leave as a rumor that when Microsoft Windows was put into general release it had over 60K known and documented bugs. 60K…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 7
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Use visual control so no problems are unhidden. One of the best modern tools we have is the data warehouse and the dashboard. We have totally current metrics available to any of us, if we would just implement the technology. …
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Video iPods in Training
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“Training is now going to employees rather than the other way around.” ((Gronstedt, Anders. June 2007. “Employees Get and Earful.” HBR June 2007, Pg 26)) A few months ago I posted some podcast ideas that you could use in HR. …
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Social Media Best Practice #1
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I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most important. However, I’m taking it that way and I haven’t even…
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The Long Awaited Taleo Performance
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Last week Taleo announced their long awaited performance management module. I’ve been waiting for their talent management release for about a year since systemaciHR first heard about it. I’ve always thought they would be late to the game, and even…
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Lawson Update
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I haven’t felt the need to write about Lawson in quite some time. Not because they are not a major player, or that they don’t have a decent mix of technology. The truth of the matter is that Oracle and…
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How Web 2.0 Will Boost Productivity
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The introduction of consumer driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a phase of productivity growth that could surpass that of the late 1990’s boom, says John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems. “We…
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An Interview with HR Smart
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A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with HR Smart, a talent management software vendor and service provider. As with many vendors, HR Smart has had applicant tracking since 1996 and they have been slowly building a suite…
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Asynchronous Communications, HR 2.0 and the Future of Work
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We seem to want real time everything. We schedule meetings when and where the most of us can be together in the same room. When that fails, we schedule conference calls. I’m a definite culprit of this as I will…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 2
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Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface. This really goes to one of the core Toyota principles that they are best known for – Just In Time. One of the key principles is the discarding of waste…
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Enabling versus Empowering
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In HRIT we spend so much time implementing and rolling out systems that we implicitly know that change management is an important part of any implementation. Vendors usually provide training, and communications are a well known part of any roll-out…
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Driving Pet Peeve’s and HR Technologies
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Some lessons are just universal in life. Others are not. Here are a few that I came up with while extraordinarily bored: 1) If you don’t know how to drive a big car, don’t buy and SUV Corollary: Sometimes you…
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The New Collaboration
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So much collaboration used to happen around “water cooler conversations.” These may have been informal lunches, chats in the halls, and even chats next to the water cooler in the lunch room. However, as the workforce increasingly works from home…
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Business Intelligence: Data Marts and Cubes
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Continued Business Intelligence: Data Marts Life finally gets exciting. We’ve loaded our data through the ETL into an ODS. We’ve enriched the data into a usable form for aggregated, multidimensional reporting. Now we just need to create the facilities for…
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Business Intelligence: ODS and Enriched Data Warehouse
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Continued Business Intelligence: ODS So once you’ve gotten through your first round of ETL, you’ll have to load the data somewhere (the “L” in ETL). The ODS, or operational data store, is where all the raw data gets loaded. This…