Data & Metrics
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CFO Magazine Survey on Employee Performance
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I found this article at CFO.com on employee productivity. CFO Staff, September 15, 2005. “Our Assets, Ourselves,” CFO.com. Retrieved December 8, 2005 from CFO.com. First of all, many of the 170 CFO’s surveyed came from “small companies.” Second of all, it’s obvious that what CFO’s/finance see as important HCM…
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Talent Acquisition Metrics
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Here’s a PDF from Webhire. I found it interesting that manual recruiting processes and automated TAS were not significantly more different in the type and quality of the metrics they provide. In all honesty, I don’t think that this survey measured the “quality” of the metrics. For example, if we talk about measuring the cost…
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Hyperion BI certifies on SAP Netweaver
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Recently I wrote about BI software and forgot to put in Hyperion. Here’s a press release from Hyperion and their SAP partnership. Hyperion’s new center of excellence located at the SAP headquarters will allow them to provide SAP specific development and tighter integration. That’s about all I know. 🙂
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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, Watson Wyatt, and Wal Mart!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Walmart joins the ranks the tier 1 HR consulting…
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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 hire, etc are important to the HR function, but are becoming less important to the…
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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 a couple of posts, just like with onboarding. For our purposes, BI tools will fall…
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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, you create an offer letter and direct the employee to the on-boarding site. This letter…
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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 organizations to pull from. For this year’s survey, they pulled 1500 company responses. (same document…
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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 it mean that you run a process to move data from one module to the…
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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 other measures, your turnover statistics can become drivers for higher employee utilization and cost savings.…
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Really cool job board integration
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A recent HR.com interview with WebHire CEO Susanne Bowen piqued my interest when they started talking about integration. Most of the time we’re talking about basic interfaces from a job board back to the ATS. However, WebHire and Monster.com have gone one step further. If you own WebHire ATS, you can now browse the entire…
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Candidate sourcing and the tech advantage
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A recent HR.com survey focused on how different types of candidate sourcing lead to improved candidate quality and cost effectiveness. I only want to talk about the quality piece here as you can go to HR.com for the survey if desired. There was more detail in the survey, but I break the results down into…
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Web services and non-integration
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This article found on the Harvard Business School website speaks to the failure of web services and the trouble of integration. These days, rather than doing large integration projects, we’re using portals to bring single views to users, but avoiding having a huge integrated database with 100% of the data in one spot. For reporting,…
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Time & Labor Management and tracking your key EE metrics
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You know, I never talk much about labor management (because payroll and timekeeping is boring), but here’s a great example. If we take a quick inventory of our major systems, we have: Core HR Payroll Benefits Administration Labor Management (Time & Attendance) Compensation Management Recruiting Management Learning Management Labor management is actually a HUGE part…
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ADP hiring index for Background Checks
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I’m very curious if ADP’s background check press release that the number of checks has tripled since 1997 is a realistic number. While I’m sure that as talent management has taken over the industry, the number of checks has increased in order (not to verify skills) to ensure the proper talent is aquired, I’m not…
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Outsourcing is failing the large employer market
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There’s quite a bit of Deloitte research out there on outsourcing in general. Much of it points to the positive impact of outsourcing, and a recent study notes outsourcing’s failure. Ok – that’s a bit dramatic I suppose. The outsourcing failure document (I have not read it yet) seems to focus on 25 large organizations…
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Workforce Performance Studies and Business Results
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IHRIM and Knowledge Infusion produced a report on workforce performance, HCM, and business results. IHRIM webinar will be on May 19, but here’s a preview: The results of the initial IHRIM and Knowledge Infusion Workforce Performance Survey include: – 96% of companies reported Workforce Performance management is their top human capital management priority for 2005;…
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Aberdeen’s TM study reviewed
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Aberneen’s article points to several conclusions that talent acquisition is no longer a viable total solution for organizations lacking a total talent strategy. As employers face an aging workforce and possibly a lack of skilled talent in the employable population, employers must adopt broader talent management policies and strategies, rather than simply being reactionary in…
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Off-peopleing (Dubs gets preachy)
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I think the point of this guy’s blog is to sell his book (ok – maybe not as you can download it for free), but he makes an interesting point. And no, I haven’t read this yet either, but I’ll comment anyway. Just so you know (before you download it) it’s targetted for the future…
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A primer on messaging
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Michael picked up on my workflow post and added some great points regarding messaging. I thought I’d do a light “primer on messaging” to round out the topic. Now I have to figure out how to explain this in 3 paragraphs. Michael hits on the old CORBA model and compares it to XML. CORBA is…