HR Technology
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UFO’s: Unfinished Objects
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I’m not sure who first coined the term “shelfware.” Most of our IT departments have all sorts of stuff we have purchased that we intend to implement but just haven’t done so yet. Or we have implementations that we have abandoned, or we have technology and strategy roadmaps that are mid way through because we…
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Implementation and the “Personal Win”
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We always end up talking about employee adoption whenever we are implementing anything whether it’s technology, process or anything else. When we talk about adoption, we’re really talking change management, and in that we are talking about changing both behaviors of people as well as attitudes. We want to convert both their minds as well…
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The Marketing of Snowflakes
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If you ever look at a snowflake dangling from the window at your local Macy’s or Bloomingdales, realize that this snowflake is only a piece of marketing, there to draw your eye, but not an accurate representation of reality. You see, most marketing snowflakes have either five or eight sides to them. Nobody seems to…
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SuccessFactors: Success = Strategy + Execution
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I was looking at a SuccessFactor’s employee laptop the other day and she had a huge sticker on it with the words “Success = Strategy + Execution.” I could not help wondering to myself if this was really the equation, or just simplified marketing jargon. Granted, SuccessFactors is probably pretty darn good at what they…
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Employee Engagement Surveys – Cost-cutting strategy when using a vendor
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Those of you in smaller organizations who have worked in HR/OD for even just a few years are sure to be familiar with organizational surveys. You then also know – depending on the size and complexity of the organization – how costly this effort can be when you hire…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology
M&A – Whose System Wins?
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I must say that sometimes M&A transitions are a pain in the *** for HR and HRIT practitioners. It’s quite rare in my experience that a merger will be a pure 50/50%, more often than not one of the merger partners is getting a tiny fraction more than 50% and so can govern the decisions…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – Karen Beaman Follow-up
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to say that you know them from reading the blog as they are obviously industry giants.…
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
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A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last few years, not because of any perceived lack of validity, thoroughness or any other concern with the approach to analysis that Jim Holincheck does, but more…
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The Bill Kutik Radio Show: Karen Beaman
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to say that you know them from reading the blog as they are obviously industry giants.…
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Kaizen Bursts
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I’ve been through a lot of process mapping sessions in my life. I’ve had the good opportunity to lead many, and also the opportunity to sit in and observe. It always surprises me how often the current state processes are mapped, and then people go straight into the future state process mapping without real reflection. …
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Cycling Technology: GPS
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Yeah, believe it or not, I have a GPS on my bike. It’s even a Garmin. With a push of a button I can go to a screen that either shows me how fast I’m going and what my heart rate is, or I can see a little map with direction arrows and everything. I…
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Makings of a Consultant
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I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter they are tackling. It’s helpful of course, but it’s actually not the core competency for consulting. First, I’m a huge advocate of liberal arts college educations. …
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Cycling Technology: Power Meters
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Cycling is an easy sport to figure out from a measurement perspective. Speed is a function of power output and weight (all other things held constant). So if you’re going uphill, the number of watts you generate as a factor of your weight (you + the bike) will determine your speed. The lighter you are…
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Cycling Technology: Gears
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There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing. In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes. Today, I still ride what is called a 10 speed, but it’s actually 20 if you directly compare it with the 10 speeds of the 1980’s. As metallurgy has advanced, cycling manufacturers…
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Cycling Technology: Bike Frame Materials
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Karen Beaman wrote a guest post somewhere on the technology of tennis. I’ve occasionally written about cycling here, but thought I’d go into more detail on the technology of cycling and its impacts on performance. Cycling is actually one of the sports where in its face, technology advancements seem to be shunned. After all, we…
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Normative Data for Employee Surveys – Worth the Spend?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. As a child, whenever I would screw up, my mother always said, “Why can’t you be more like Billy?” Billy was a straight-A student who excelled in every sport with which he was involved – an all-around “wunderkind” who could do no wrong. Needless to say, I didn’t like…
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Unbundling HR
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Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems that we’ve been seeing for many years now. She is exactly right, that often times the unbundling of HR applications away from a central ERP system provides for more agile HR service delivery. Traditional ERP systems have not been growing at the…
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What is a portal?
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We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self service and reporting tools portals, even though most of us don’t really know what a portal is or does. Well, intuitively we do, a portal is…
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Translating HR Data Elements globally
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Global HR data is tough. Often times when we’re thinking about implementing a global core HR system, or a global data warehouse, we implement these systems according to a U.S. centric view of the world. (I’ll note here that I once worked with a U.K. based company that looked at their core HR system with…
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Addicting HR
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Can you make your managers addicted to HR? Can you make them care about processes and policies and procedures? Do they really care about the employee engagement score? Personally, I think we can, but I’m not sure we know how to do it yet. Three and five years ago, we all saw the demos of…