HR Technology
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Talent Acquisition Systems Updates
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I’ve been remiss in my lack of system and vendor updates. Truth be told, not much has actually changed in the vendor landscape other than a few mergers. The vendors I liked last year and early this year are the…
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Independent Consulting: Perception or Reality?
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Last week, Barbara Martinez wrote a very in-depth article which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 18, 2006; Page A1). A subscription to WSJOnline is necessary to view the article, but I encourage you to…
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Branding, Communications, Compensation, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Mgmt, Vendors, Workforce Planning
We Have Work to Do
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For all our lofty talk about employer branding, employee engagement, communications and change management, and for all the money we’ve been spending on implementing technology, process and workflow, we don’t seem to be tying the two together. I won’t be…
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SAP Customers are More Profitable… or Not
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So I don’t actually subscribe to any of the advertising hype that says you’ll be significantly more profitable one way or another if you’re running SAP instead of Oracle instead of some other tier 1 applications. Basically I’d say that…
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TCO: Measuring Risk
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In a prior post I wrote about the Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) in the context of risk. Today I would like to write about techniques to measure the cost of risk, particularly in the case of administering benefit plans….
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Change Management, Communications, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Knowledge Mgmt, Learning Mgmt, Portal
HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development
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In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as…
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Leaves Administration Software
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I’ll quietly admit that I don’t know enough about absence management and leaves administration. About all I know is that FMLA, state permutations around FMLA and absence policies are somewhat complex. Reading this article, I’m not sure I’m totally convinced…
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Doesn’t Matter How Cool HR Technology Is
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You can automate everything, have wickedly cool workflow ((I think I just let everyone know what generation I’m from)), and perfection in the user interface. It’s all meaningless if your data is crap. 1) If data in your core HRMS…
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Total Comp Integration
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One of the beautiful things about integrated total compensation is that it’s easy to get – you can buy if from any one of hundreds of vendors. (there are probably only a few dozen who actually do it well though)….
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How Integration Should Look at the UI
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How drilldowns really work: When we think about how we want integration to look when brought forward to the user interface, we want true usability as opposed to the simple presentation of data. As we make life easier for our…
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Building your own HRMS
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About 5 years ago, Qualcomm in San Diego was presenting at various meetings nad user groups to show off the employee self service module they had built in-house. At the time, it made sense – self service UI’s were still…
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Learning to Talent Management Integration
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We’ve already talked about performance, compensation and succession. Adding learning to the equation is fairly simple, but again, it’s a two way street (perhaps more circular than linear). And once again, it all starts with jobs and the competencies that…
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Succession Planning to LMS, EPM Integration
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Integration between the various functional “modules” that make up a talent management suite (TMS) are numerous, and in the next couple of days, I’ll cover a couple variations. The first is data integration that revolves around a succession planning process….
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Performance Management to Compensation Management Integration
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Unfortunately for most managers, technologists usually see a need to integrate performance scores with the compensation planning tools, but not much more than that. The reality is that if you are a manager, you really need more than just a…
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Recruiting to Talent Management Integration
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Here starts another series, this time on integration and in response to a rather surprising showing of interest in Performance Management Integration back in early August. In this series, I’ll be covering not only the reasons why integration is critical,…
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My Vision and Hope for SaaS
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There’s a great opportunity that SaaS has. As I think about these vendors with applications hosting scores of medium and large clients on a single installation of an application, on a single (cluster of) box(es), I envision this incredible opportunity…
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SaaS: Focus on Results
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Interesting post on ZDNet’s SaaS blog about the evolution of the application and the focus on the technology vs. the business results – misleading but interesting: Whenever customers have to physically implement an application on their own premises, the conversation…
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Russ Fradin: The New CEO at Hewitt Associates
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Last week I promised to write about measuring risk related to group benefit plans and techniques on evidence based cost avoidance (when I put it that way, it sounds so boring!) I’m sorry, but some other news broke last week…
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ADP Aquires Employease
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OK, as ths Employease press release says, they only agreed to do so, but it’s a great move assuming it gets past all the regulatory stuff. ((Got this through Phoenix INformation Managmenet.)) The (pending) acquisition is a great move for…
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HR Technology, Branding and Environmentalism
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Going where I never thought I’d go… But the HRIQ blog wrote this page about the amount of waste generated by a workplace in a single year. Apparently the average worker can throw away ONE QUARTER OF A TONNE OF…