HR Technology
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Wal Mart on par with Tier 1 HR Consulting Firms
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I feel like I’ve been theorizing too much. Here are a few interesting things I’ve seen in the news over the last couple of days: HRMarketer.com HR Industry Trends reports the top HR industry newsmakers as Mercer, Towers Perrin, Hewitt,…
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Technology and Cultural Effects
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This from Knowledge@Wharton describes the effects of technology on culture. I’m posting it to continue the discussion on work life balance that Michael Specht started. From 1985 until the present, we have been reacting against our earlier self-centeredness by turning…
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OLAP Reporting Tools
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Based on our last discussion, we probably realize that the power of business intelligence lies in the ability to consolidate HR data into a unified corporate data environment. Simple data extraction and running HR metrics such as turnover, time to…
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What is Reporting?
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Actually, this is another one of those annoying buzz words. We’re going to call it business intelligence or BI. BI software is simply a tool that allows you to extract data out of a database. We’ll continue this discussion for…
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HRMS vs. Point Solutions… again
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I’ve written a few times that the day of the huge enterprise HRMS solution is over. PeopleSoft, SAP… they just don’t provide niche solutions that are as good as point solutions. So the recruiting tools in PS or SAP for…
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Onboarding Part 2: Integration
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Let’s start this one off with a picture. Let me first say that time also increases from left to right. So your first step would be recruiting and all the functions in the ATS system on the left. After that,…
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Telecommuters make many office visits
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As a quick follow-up to Michael’s work life balance post, I recently saw this article on telecommuting and how telecommuters still go into the office more often than they think they will. Personally, I love tellecommuting even though it impedes…
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Talent Management Scorecard updated
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Here’s my original post. I have updated Authoria and included Softscape. So an integrated point solution in the talent space should/may include (1) talent acquisition, (2) new hire onboarding, (3) performance management, (4) compensation management, (5) learning management, (6) succession…
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Human Capital Benchmarking
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So SHRM put out a new survey called the SHRM Human Capital Benchmarking survey. Apparently they are going to do this every year. The metrics that come out of this should be pretty good as they certainly have enough member…
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Paychex vs. ADP
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For the vast majority of employers, Paychex is a viable option. If you have followed my blog with interest, and find the players I generally talk about to be potential vendors for your company, then you are probably a larger…
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Work Life Balance and Bill Gates
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Michael wrote a very nice essay on work life balance the other day and I had a few additions. (partial excerpt below) Given my general focus is in HR and technology I could also not forget about all this technology…
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Mercer HRO takes off
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Well, I was wrong again. I really thought the Mercer SynHRgy merger was going to be a flop. In fact, I was fully convinced that Mercer would spin the HRO arm off sometime this year. Instead, they have 15 new…
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Authoria buying Hire.com
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Wow wow wow… This is huge for point solutions. Authoria is buying Hire.com, meaning they will be that much closer to being a full service talent management suite. Check out my old scorecard of talent management solutions here. All Authoria…
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The truth about what “integration” means
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Integration? What does integration mean to you? Does integration mean the constant and immediate transfer of data between tables of different modules? Does it mean that there is no transfer of data between tables because tables are perfectly shared? Does…
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Turnover analytics and employee utilization
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Unicru put out a nice whitepaper entitles “Why Analyzing Turnover Is Not Enough.” You can register to download it for free here. In it, the author describes how extending the conceptual data framework around turnover and expanding data results across…
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Free downloadable HRMS comparison
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HR Executive magazine has this on their website. It’s a nice grid of software that is fairly simple to read. http://www.workindex.com/hrexecutive/images/hrms_bg.pdf They also had this guide to specialty software (what I call point solutions) in the same format. So if…
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ADP’s SAP platform comes to North America
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I’ve been hinting that ADP would go to SAP globally for HR/PR. The U.S. and central/south America will be the last ones, but here’s a press release saying Asia, Europe and Canada are on.
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Many to Many internet applications
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Harold Jarche pointed to this at the same time that elearnspace pointed to this. In these businessweek articles is a nice overview of the internet application transformation. I’m a bit short of understanding of where we are in this framework…
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Just a couple of HRO news notes
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New press release from EquaTerra who apparently did a new BPO study. Basically it says that the majority of BPO (includes HRO and FAO) clients are satisfied with their process improvements and that the market is expected to grow. No…