HR Technology
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RSS in HR
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I was reading “Branding the Feed” in Business 2.0 Magazine ((Heilemann, John, July 2006. “Branding the Feed.” Business 2.0, Volume 7, Number 6. Page 42.)) about Dick Costolo’s Feedburner strategy (If you read this site through a feed, it’s coming through feedburner). Not a new thought, but it occurs to me that RSS (Real Simple…
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TCO in the Context of Risk
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Many regular readers of SystematicHR know that I conducted a Total Cost of Ownership study to determine the cost of benefits administration. The results were released last December. Double Dubs commented on it here, and it is how I originally came to find his great blog. Generally, TCO is a means at getting at hidden…
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PS vs SAP: Part 2
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In the last entry I wrote “that the only HR departments that go on SAP are the ones that are forced to do so by their CEO.” While there’s some truth to this, I’ve also written in the past that if I were a CIO, I’d go out and buy Oracle financials, PeopleSoft HR, SAP…
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PS vs SAP: Part 1
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There are lots of snobs out there: those that won’t outsource to anyone but ADP, those that think they are superior because they work in compensation, and consultants who think their way is better before they even consult. The snobbery elite is probably topped by a distinguished set of software users: PeopleSoft snobs. The life…
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Relationship Management – Measuring Satisfaction
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How do you know when an outsourcing initiative has been successful? At what point can you sit back, look at all that has been done and actually congratulate yourselves on a successful implementation, transition and effective and stable ongoing processing environment. I think back to the system person I dealt with on a 401(k) conversion…
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A Workflow Primer
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No content post today – I just wanted to introduce the readership to a resource I found. Actually, it’s an Oracle workflow primer, but it’s only chapter 1, and therefore a great overview on the topic in general. I found this while browsing through Oracle websites and thought you’d be interested. For those of you…
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Performance Management Integration
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Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new installations keep growing and eventually upgrades and replacements of systems will feed the vendors. It’s…
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TCO and the Line Manager
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In the jobs I had before I started my own business, I always felt an important part of my responsibility was to develop the people who reported to me. In fact, I always went a step beyond and looked to develop one person to the point at which they could do my job. Of course,…
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6 Traits of the Next Generation HR Leader
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(A response to Jason Corsello) Usually I would say rebuttal instead of response, but Jason has this one right on. If you don’t read his site, start now by going there to see his comments on all of the below. Anything in bold is a direct quote from his blog, but as always I’ve added…
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TCO: A Case Study
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Some time ago, a fortune 500 company acquired another fortune 500 company. At the time, the acquiring company was a PeopleSoft shop for payroll and HRIS. The acquired company had been outsourcing payroll and accessed a hosted HRIS system for their HR needs. Both companies were roughly the same size and a decision needed to…
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An Introduction to TCO
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Earlier this week, Elaine commented on my article from last week How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save. Elaine writes: “Frankly, there are so many articles published stating different outcome of offshoring and outsourcing ventures. More often than not, people are confused on which side to believe in and which is telling the truth or lying.”…
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Talk About Hewitt
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There’s been a lot of it lately. Our own Donald Glade wrote about it here, and Jason did here. First off, my response to Jason Corsello: ADP should not buy Hewitt. ADP does not have a proven track record integrating acquisitions into their business model. They acquire and then try to turn every acquisition into…
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The Future of Open Source Applications
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Open source technologies have been part of the software and technology landscape for quite some time. Except for the very notable exceptions of Linux and Java which have acheived mainstream success, other open source applications have not had the same market impact. Perhaps this is a bit unfair as Java and Linus are applications that…
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An Interview with Employease
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I’ve been quite up front in my admission that I don’t know much about the mid-market for HRMS. As part of my education, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the absolute leaders in the mid-market HRMS arena – Employease. I have no issue saying that they are a leader as Gartner seems…
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How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save?
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I set this article aside some time ago with the intention of commenting on it at some point. Now is as good a time as any. The story, “Survey: Outsourcing saves less than claimed” is based on a survey conducted by TPI. The gist of the story is summed up in the lead: “Outsourcing of…
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Shake up at Hewitt
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The rumors have been around in the market for some time now, but this past week it showed up in print: What does surprise Pramuk and other experts, however, is that Hewitt doesn’t have a successor in place for Salvino. “That certainly could be hinting at a sale of its HRO business,” he says. Marc…
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When to Walk Away from a Sale: The Vendor Side of Vendor Management
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Since Donald Glade has been tackling vendor management, an article in “the CEO Refresher” ((McLaughlin, Michael W. “When to Walk Away From a Sale: Nine Pivotal Questions.” Retrieved from www.refresher.com on May 21, 2006.)) caught my eye when I noticed some pointers on when a vendor should disengage with a prospect. Check out the article…
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PMO – Behavioral Change in HR
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Every project has some component of change. Especially in HR changes, an organization might be deploying changes to how HR practitioners, employees, or managers experience process or service delivery. In many cases, multiple populations experience changes of many varieties. As I’ve mentioned before, change management is not training on new systems and processes. That’s called…
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PMO – Behavioral Change with Employees and Managers
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HR behavioral change is sometimes easy with employees and usually difficult with managers. Modern employees enjoy access to self service systems, but are sometimes lukewarm towards service delivery and call center environments they are not used to. Managers on the other hand often want as little HR work as possible and any HR change is…
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PMO vs Change Management
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Change management is a critical part of almost any project and it is a determinant in the successful implementation in both technology and process projects. I believe change management should be an organized function within the PMO. How it’s structured if there is a separate group of people working on change management, if change is…