HR Technology
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Business Intelligence: Introduction and ETL
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Most normal HRIS people who sit around dealing with their normal HRIS and talent management systems haven’t given much thought to business intelligence much beyond the standard reporting capabilities provided by their applications of choice. A few might have gone…
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CedarCrestone 2007 Analytics Report
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CedarCrestone recently pushed out their 2007 Analytics survey. While I’m not sure my own experience matches theirs, there are some interesting trends to at least be noted. You can find their full version of the survey here. In general, when…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
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It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since my last official conversation with them as the writer and publisher…
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Middle Market HRO Convergence
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We’ve long talked about the large HRO organizations trying to go after the middle market. After all, how many companies out there can afford a 10 year contract valued at $500M? With large HRO contracts closing in on 200 contracts,…
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The Self Service Experience
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Every vendor you ever meet will tell you how much time and money your organization will save by implementing self service tools and workflow automation. It’s definitely true that the initiative to go paperless has shifted work, but whether or…
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Wyatt Gets into Talent Software
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Mercer once had a benefits administration offering that they ended up selling to ADP. Then they partnered with SynHRgy (spelling?) to get into HRO. That didn’t pan out so well either. Towers Perrin has a partnership with Excellerate HRO (EDS)…
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Does Web 2.0 Suck?
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Michael thinks web 2.0 sucks. Actually, he doesn’t, he’s the biggest user of new technologies I know. But enterprise users have been slow to adopt the technology. I talked about capturing collaboration networks in HR using web 2.0 technologies, but…
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How to Lie With Analytics
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I was listening to a presentation being given by a timekeeping vendor. Within the demonstration, a report was run providing a detail of when people decided to take sick days, and the report stated that the large majority of sick…
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Agility Methods and Project Governance
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Governance and scope creep is always one of the major problems in any project. Limited resources and continuous demand from non-project needs both elongate projects and spread resources too thin. I was speaking with a technology friend about project governance…
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AJAX User Interface in HR
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Much commotion was made about AJAX last year when it took hold in the web marketplace. Certainly the web applications of it are marvelous and bloggers like myself spent much time wondering where it would go and what forms it…
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Ceridian Goes Private
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I’m a bit late with this one, but I wanted to provide some analysis as to what I think this means for Ceridian and their clients. The Ceridian Corporation, a human resources company, said last night that it had sold…
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Revisiting HR 2.0
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I’m not sure anyone knows what HR 2.0 actually is. I’ve taken my shots a few times, but more often than not I’ve been talking about HR’s role in innovation. Terrance pointed out a conversation that’s been going on at…
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HR’s Decision Support
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SHRM’s study of HR technology competencies (no link, but easy to find if you’re a member) revealed some not so surprising facts last year. According to them (and every other study we get out of the HR vendor industry) more…
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Workstream Talent Update
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The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly underserved. My take is that the mid market is somewhere around…
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HR Function KPI’s
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HR function KPI’s are defined the same way as Human Capital KPI’s except that they are internally focused, rather than focused on the broader organization. One should not be blind to the large amount of overlap that the two types…
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Human Capital KPI’s
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HR key performance indicators can be both incredibly difficult or quite simple to generate, depending on the type of indicator you’re looking for. The main problem with your KPI’s is that you need to first make the switch between simple…
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Great HR Podcast Ideas
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I’ve been thinking about how would could both communicate through podcasts. Certainly there are the obvious applications. If you do a corporate meeting, why not record it and make it available for download? If the President of the U.S. gets…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
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This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and product actually gets done. Sure we have our formal organizational hierarchies,…
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When the ROI Does Not Equal BS
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Colin had an article that I loved about ROI. I’ve long since abandoned ROI for TCO and my compatriot Donald Glade I’m sure has similar feelings. You shave a nickel off every $5 bill that passes by, and at the…
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Some HR BPO Conventional Wisdom
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With the next generation of HR BPO taking shape, companies are learning from past mistakes and employing new conventional wisdom around the process of migrating to an HR BPO solution. ((Christie, Mike and Wright, Mike. “Lessons Uncovered: The New Conventional…