HR Technology
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Keeping Managers Accountable for Turnover
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— You must have a manager training program — You must have education on employee engagement — Metric on first year employee turnover, how much of hires were an employee brand mismatch versus manager skill? Are your managers accountable for…
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Global Change Management
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So you’re rolling out a global HRIT strategy. Perhaps this means you are putting the entire enterprise on a global recruiting system, or you will ask each business unit and country to provide data to a global data warehouse, or…
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Staffing for Global IT Models
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I often get the question about how to deploy HR technology services. People still seem to be in love with discovering the “best practices” in the industry, not realizing that they are general guidelines of what seems to be working…
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6 Degrees: The Data Hub
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“The Power of Six Degrees” recently re-ran on the Science Channel here in the U.S. The basic premise of 6 degrees was that you can connect yourself to any other person in the world, not matter how remote, with only…
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HR Market Makers: Who Really Determines What You Buy
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So you think you choose what software you purchase? Well perhaps some of the time you do, but I’m starting to think that there are a couple dozen people in the HR industry that really determine the fate of HR…
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Global HRMS Cultural Issues
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Everyone wants global data. They want it in a global HRMS, or in a data warehouse. They want shared accessible data in communized practices and processes. They want the ability to roll-up data and aggregate reports and dashboards. They want…
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On Towers and Wyatt
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Well, it’s been a full week now, and I feel like I have enough information to formulate a decent opinion on the merger between Towers and Wyatt. Here goes: Was this a merger, or an acquisition? Well, to be honest,…
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The HR Software Slump
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I was recently getting caught up on some blog reading and noticed Josh Bersin’s post on the Talent Management Software Slump. I’m not sure if I’m just a pessimist, but I thought I’d post a reply. (granted, Josh wrote his…
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Data Hubs versus Business Intelligence
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I keep seeing organizations that try to use their data warehouse platforms as data hubs. While on the surface this might seem like a good idea, it really might not be depending on your utilization of each. The data warehouse…
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Core HR in a Point Solution World
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Perhaps the statement that we now live in a “point solution world” for HR is a bit bold. Certainly in large and medium sized organizations, ERP deployments are still strong. However, we do know that these same organizations are increasingly…
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The Money Multiplier
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I’ve put a lot of faith and hope in businesses as the economy continues to trend downward. I had initially thought that this time around we would be smarter. Smarter than in 2001 when the bubble burst and HR technology…
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Analytics and Dubious Correlations
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Being an Asian who suffers from what I call “red face syndrome” (I also call it “beet red” or “lobster red”) I was quite interested when the following article was forwarded to me. People whose faces turn red when they…
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Global Data Protection – Model Contracts
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As long as we talked about Safe Harbor in the last entry, we might as well talk about model contracts. Honestly, I don’t like this one as much as it’s really an avenue for data protection that comes out of…
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Global Data Protection
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As I continue to work with global organizations, I’m a bit surprised to see a continued effort around obtaining employee consent for the export of data outside the home country (or EU). While this may have been the traditional method…
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HR Technology Supply and Demand Curves
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I’ve written about it, and so have many others. The economy sucks. Thus, software sales in the HR technology space must also be down. In fact, I’m pretty sure they are – at least in the talent space. Major ERP…
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Innovating for Sales
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A while back I observed some talent software from a leading talent management vendor. They were excited to show me their innovations around presenting a “seating chart” that would allow the user to visually see where employees were located within…
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Talent 2.0
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What the heck is Talent 2.0? Well first of all, it’s not here yet. Second of all, it probably makes more sense to define Talent 1.0 before I can theorize on Talent 2.0. Talent Management 1.0 is simply what we…
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Compliance Reporting
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Is there anything worth while about compliance reporting? We do EEO1s, OFCCP, VETS, and do we get anything good out of it? Lets face it, while there might be some slam modicum of insight coming out of these reports that…
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CedarCrestone Pulse Update
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CedarCrestone recently updated their annual HRIT survey covering the trends in HR budgets. It’s especially interesting right now as the economy swings down. There is obviously much more content and charts in the real report you can get from CedarCrestone,…
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HR Metrics: Dismissal rate
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So the organization or parts of it are dismissing too many people. You think to yourself, “why is my recruiting so bad that I get crap people?” I suppose that is one diagnosis to the problem, and from the manager…