HR Technology
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Time to Upgrade
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Today I got the following message on my browser: Unfortunately your web-browser is from 2001, which is really, really old in web years. If you would take a moment to upgrade you will find the web has a lot more to offer. First of all, let me point out that this was not actually my…
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Screen Flicker and End User Annoyances
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There has been so much publicity around e-readers and the Apple iPad lately. In truth, I’m totally captivated by both of these technologies, but have not jumped in the market yet. The iPad seems wonderful since it is basically the next evolution of the net book, or mini-laptop. It has a great user interface, is…
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Go to the HR Technology Conference
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Really. You guys know that I don’t usually pitch anything. But I have pitched this show a few times. It really is probably the largest gathering of HR people outside of the SHRM conference. But you never hear people come back from the SHRM conference talking excitedly about… well, anything really. Some people like the…
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Yelp and the Future of BI Search
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I’m sitting (almost) next to a guy who works for Yelp. He just did a pretty interesting tutorial to the person in the middle seat ((great seat buddies for once – how often does that happen?)) about some interesting features in Yelp. I at least didn’t know about some of these, but the most interesting…
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What’s Next?
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Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world. After all, what would we have done if SoftScape had not coined the term “Talent Management”? (I’m pretty sure it was them, but…
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Implementing Smart Codes
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So you’re going to implement new job codes, or department codes, or whatever. Someone in the organization has a great idea: “let’s make the codes smart!” I mean, what better idea to manage the information within the code than to implant attributes within the code itself. So you go down the road: Job category will…
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Explaining Facts and Dimensions
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Fact: A turnover rate based on a calculation Dimension: Historical time trend of turnover Fact: The number of heads in your HR database Dimension: The breakdown of headcount by organization Fact: The number of FTE’s in any given job code Dimension: The demographic analysis of FTE’s in job code I honestly have no idea how…
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Pretty is not Useful
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Not all of us have fancy business intelligence tools and cool dashboards with great graphs prepared for us in our business environments yet. If we’re lucky, we belong to organizations that have spent millions of dollars figuring out how to get us analytics when we log into self service environments. Or perhaps we have bought…
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Defining SaaS
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Since I defined Web 2.0 already, I thought I’d also define SaaS for the masses. Again, this is actually a fairly easy and straightforward technology to put some boundaries around. First of all, I don’t actually like the moniker “Software as a Service” because it confuses most HR people. At the core, SaaS does not…
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Defining Web 2.0
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It’s probably long past time to write some definitions. In fact, I’ve done this before, probably every time I write a post about Web 2.0. A few years ago, I said that Web 2.0 would not be on the radar screens of HR for a couple of years, and sure enough, the last couple of…
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Everything in its Place
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I write this in the usual place – the airplane. I’m in a window seat, so I’m only surrounded on three sides. The guy in front of me has decided that all the stuff he does not want should not go in front of him, but that “out of sight, out of mind” is a…
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders. If they are nieces or nephews, they get some allowances for being kids. But when I get literally 5 or 6 notifications in a…
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Up In The Air – Packing Theory
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Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the Oscars.) Several people have told me how personal the film was, and other than the…
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Up In The Air – Boarding Theory
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Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the Oscars.) Several people have told me how personal the film was, and other than the…
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Bill Kutik and the Direction of HR Technology
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A recent Bill Kutik Radio Show featured Tom Keebler of Towers Watson. Tom is the Global Practice Leader of the TW HR Service Delivery Practice, and each year they run an HR Technology Survey that is probably the second largest in the industry (Lexy’s from CedarCrestone is significantly larger this year). The TW survey is…
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The Future of Learning
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Those of you who read this blog often know that I’m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy. I’m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day entering my daily food and caloric intake into my smart phone, I thought how wonderful it would be if I could record my daily learning experiences…
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Style and Strategy: Nadal versus Federer
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I love tennis. I prefer to watch it than to play as I’m not really very good, and I seem to have a bum shoulder. Each year, my wife and I record the coverage of every grand slam, and to be honest, we have missed the once omni-presence of Rafael Nadal in all the finals. …
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Employee Portal Experience Fundamentals
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Portal redesign is fun these days. Creating widgets from our talent management systems and plugging in cool looking, drillable analytics from the business intelligence engine (also widgetized) is pretty cool. The technology advances in the last few years that allow you to take a standard portal and natively configure and insert your widgets (portlets, pagelets,…
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Business Intelligence and Data Dispersion
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Data Encryption with business intelligence and reports has always been a problem. Users are constantly requesting reports, and once data is in someone’s hands, it’s almost impossible to control data dissemination and what I’ll call data diaspora. One must admit, especially in large organizations, that trying to put controls from a procedural perspective is not…
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Immediacy without Details
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I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all the latest stuff. But I find myself at odds with some of the theory and philosophy. There seems to be an emerging sense of immediacy and…