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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…