Vendors
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HR Technology Conference 2014: Global Payroll
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If you read this blog, you know I like order and simplicity. I want everything in one place. My scale at home weighs me and integrates to my calorie tracker. my calorie tracker integrates with my fitness tracker. I know…
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HR Technology Conference 2014: Recruiting System Thoughts
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Overall, this year was one of the best years in a while for the vendor and show floor. In my opinion, there were some significant areas where technology has finally started catching up with vision, and it was happening on…
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Infographics Suck
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I was riding my bike around Marin (north of San Francisco) this fall, it was a bit cloudy, grey and not as bright as usual. Just the week before, I had purchased a new pair of lenses for my sunglasses,…
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Is Cloud The Way To Go?
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So I had to upgrade my cell phone contract. I used to be on this thing where I had a bucket of minutes and text messages to use, and now I’m on exactly the opposite. I have unlimited phone and…
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All Posts, Engagement, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Vendor Mgmt, VendorsCedar Crestone HR Technology Survey: Create a Winning HR Function
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All too often, I get an industry report to read and end up saying to my colleagues, “wow this is crap.” Case in point, at the end of 2012, I got a widely read industry report that rated a halfway…
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Switching Gears
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A long time ago, I used to work for ADP doing pre-sales. We had great relationships internally with services and implementation, but nonetheless it always seemed to come up that we didn’t always sell with the full lens of reality. …
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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
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If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already old technology. Sure, 3D is brand new, and its going to…
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Fusion HCM Website is Up
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Just an FYI since this appears to be about the softest launch we’ve seen in ages. Considering we’ve been waiting for Fusion for a while. Here’s an FYI that the website is up and perhaps the software is in GA…
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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
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Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. While you’re at…
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HR Technology Deployments
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I love it when consultants come in and talk to you about all the things you need to do around an implementation. Obviously your implementer is going to do all the normal things around table configuration and testing, but they…
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Evaluating the Demo
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I’ll admit that a while back (wow – are we going on 10 years now?) I was an SC. You know – those guys from the vendors that the salespeople count on to demonstrate product during the sales cycle. SC’s…
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Stop Selling Apps: SaaS is a Service
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Increasingly, I’m seeing organizations change their buying habits, at least in theory. Vendor selections are no longer the total domain of functional requirements as they once were. We don’t care nearly as much about feature functionality and our ability to…
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Differentiation in SaaS
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A while back, I was an SC for a large vendor organization. It was a lot of fun highlighting the great stuff in my applications (actually – those were the fun parts). But our jobs were to help find solutions…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Taleo versus SuccessFactors
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At the end of 2009, Bersin did a great analysis of the two organizations that I can’t really beat. It’s a nice objective and score by score view of the vendors that is based in good factual data, and I’m…
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Consulting Models
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I was actually asked by a client recently to increase the scope of my project – or at least the staffing model we were using. There are a more than a few consulting models, but I think it generally boils…
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Change Management, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation, Service Delivery, Vendors
Support versus Change, Evolution versus Revolution
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Jacob Morgan wrote a piece about adoption a while back, and he had a pretty interesting concept around supporting business process as opposed to change management. This is really quite new to me, as we’ve always talked about change management…