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    HR Marketing that actually makes sense!!!

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    So Workstream.com has an offer out to Webhire.com clients to convert them at a “significant discount.” Business Wire, December 22, 2005. “Workstream Unveils WebHire Trade-in Program; Workstream Exchange Program Offers Displaced WebHire Customers Free Migration and Integration to Workstream Recruitment and TalentCenter Suite,” NewsEdge Corporation. Retrieved from http://workindex.com on December 27, 2005. “Workstream guarantees to…

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    Wal Mart HMO – really…

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    Nope, I wasn’t kidding. Is there anything that the “great” Wal Mart won’t do or try? Wal Mart HMO press release. ExtendChoice(TM) is a defined contribution health care program that allows employers to provide their employees tax free dollars to be used to secure their own individual health insurance and/or pay for qualified medical expenses.…

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    TMS Automation Debate Revisited

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    There has been a bit too much debate on this topic not to bring it back in the new year. I think it really comes down to some of our fundamental philosophies on how we allow technology to impact our work and lives … how much control we actually give it. More discussion here: My…

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    ADP Benefit TCO study

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    ADP’s benefit TCO study presented some very interesting numbers as well as a few questions: First, I’m not at all surprised that outsourced benefit administration is less costly from a TCO (total cost of ownership) measure than in-house benefit admin. However, let’s look at some of the unspoken assumptions in the survey: The average size…

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    Who/What I’ll be Watching in 2006

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    Vendors: Success Factors – Good functionality built on good technology. Add to that a positive cash flow and things are looking up. Authoria – Strong brand, technology and marketing. I’m not sure what 2006 looks like for them, but I have a feeling that SF and Authoria are going to outclass the rest of the…

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    2006 HR Technology Outlook – last post of 2005

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    As my last post of the year, I was going to do the standard year end list. But then I thought better and rather than putting in time that very few people are going to read, I thought I’d drag out a rather old article on the HR tech outlook for HR technology. As usual,…

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    ACS for sale – $8B

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    Ok – I’m trying to not post at the end of the year, but this is news worth posting. A consortium of investment firms is in talks to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, a technology outsourcing company with clients that include General Electric and McDonald’s, for about $8 billion, people briefed on the negotiations said. The…

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    ADP’s On-Demand HRMS Direction

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    I saw this press release and got to thinking about ADP’s direction with HRMS. Why do I keep talking about ADP and why are they important? Being the 10,000 lb. gorilla in the payroll market, they are actually also one of the huge players in the core HRMS market as well. They have more HRMS…

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    TAS Vendor Scorecard

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    Well, I’ve done talent management scorecards a few times, but never talent acquisition. This is not really a scorecard or vendor functionality comparison. Here are my top 4 vendors and a few notes about them. This is not a review of functionality, just a purely subjective view on who I like and why. Taleo and…

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    TMS (non) fiancials

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    I seem to have made the quite unwise statement that I would attempt to evaluate the financials of several TMS vendors. Realizing now that I should take that statement back (entirely possible with just a quick stroke of the keyboard) and deny the whole thing, I submit the following with a few disclaimers (on top…

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    Technology, Automation, and Talent Case Studies

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    I found this article in CFO Magazine’s online Fall 2005 issue. The full text is quite long and located here. It is a well written piece by Scott Leibs from September 15, 2005. Anything in block quotes below is a direct excerpt. There are so many good examples of everything we’ve been discussion over the…

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    CFO Magazine Survey on Employee Performance

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    As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I found this article at CFO.com on employee productivity. CFO Staff, September 15, 2005. “Our Assets, Ourselves,” CFO.com. Retrieved December 8, 2005 from CFO.com. First of all, many of the 170 CFO’s surveyed came from “small companies.” Second of all, it’s obvious that what CFO’s/finance see as important HCM…

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    Has Oracle Forgotten About the HR Suite?

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    Jason posted the same topic on SAP. Corsello, Jason, December 12, 2005. “Has SAP Forgotten About HR?” The Human Capitalist. Retrieved December 12, 2005 from http://jasoncorsello.blogs.com. If anyone was at Oracle World a few months ago, you’ll recall seeing all the irritated HR people. Why you ask? The HR track really didn’t exist unti lthe…

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    Technology’s role in performance management

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    Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine had this article about technology’s role in performance management. I thought it a bit obtuse, but I’ll expand on my ideas below. I thought we were going to read about EPS systems and deployment. Instead the article was about LMS and how to deploy learning. I didn’t really get the tie…

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    Tax Credit Screening (and a few $100K)

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    A few days ago, I got an e-mail from someone requesting my thoughts on Projectix. The e-mail said, “I would say it [is a] TMS program. Wouldn’t you?” A few e-mail exchanges later, I basically said that it was not a TMS system, it was an TAS system. This was actually being nice because when…

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    Authoria tops the TMS vendors?

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    In a rare show of self control, a vendor has incredible press that it doesn’t show off on it’s website. ***NOTE – I have been corrected. Sometimes the most obvious things are not readily apparent to me. The huge orange and red banner on Authoria’s hompage is an announcement that they won the shootout. Even…

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    Employer branding, talent and engagement Part 3

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    So what does all of this have to do with HR Technology and service delivery? Employee Self Service/Portal Manager Self Service/Portal HR Service Center Print Communications I am a firm believer that while your verbal communications are your most powerful communications, your internet based tools and your call center are your most frequent methods of…

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    More on Portals

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    Blogger over at Systematic Viewpoints has been writing about PeopleSoft portals and his implementation experiences lately. Of particular interest is his/er organization’s struggle with the HR portal versus the enterprise portal. If you’re on common platforms (PS, SAP, PT) then integration isn’t so bad. Even if they are not on the same platform, I’m not…

  • HR Technology – State of the Industry

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    This is a reply to Jeff from the talentism.com blog, who in his post about quality vs cost, invited me to comment about waste in systems and technology. The Seven Wastes are (defined by Taiichi Ohno, Toyota’s Chief Engineer ): 1 – The Waste of Overproduction 2 – The Waste of Waiting 3 – The…

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    What’s a portal?

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    Usually I’m right there with the 3 major consulting firms (Mercer, TP and WW). However, this time I’m not quite sure if Mercer get’s what a portal is vs a web page. Joe Loya and Debbie Slappey of Mercer said here: In the past 10 years, many organizations grasped that the Web could transform the…