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 same ones. Anyways, here’s my update of tier 1 talent acquisition system vendors (in alpha…
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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 read it if at all possible. In the article Ms. Martinez writes about independence in…
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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 commenting heavily on this as I really think you should read the whitepaper of the…
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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 if you’re running any top ERP suite, the products are within 2% of each other…
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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. The shortfall of TCO modeling for administrative functions is that typically, quantifying the costs of…
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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 company commanders, each responsible for three platoons, or about 120 soldiers. At the end of…
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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 that best of bred solutions are always the best way to go, but as with…
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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 is crap, then everything else is too. Let’s think about this and what the effects…
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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). I said it’s easy to get, not necessarily easy to do. Total compensation is really…
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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 managers and employees, what we’re really doing is making the process simpler and allowing managers…
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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 maturing, functionality was not well deployed, and interactivity and workflow were immature. 5 years later,…
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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 are attached to those jobs. All competencies should drive a set of learning activities. How…
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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. In my humble opinion, succession planning is not an activity that requires a huge amount…
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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 score. First of all, the score has to be meaningful in some way, and second…
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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, but also what components to think about. First on the list is recruiting to talent…
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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 to mine the data for best, or at least common, practices. Today, we count on…
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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 with vendors always ends up being about the technical features of the product such as…
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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 that I felt compelled to comment on. I’ll get back to measuring risk next 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 ADP, but it’s not the one I would have necessarily made. It bolsters their mid…
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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 MATERIALS PER YEAR, according to Eco Office! They equate this to having depth of up…