Implementation
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Maintaining Cadence
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In cycling, one of the core concepts when you are trying to maintain good “form” is the maintenance of cadence. Basically, a cyclist is most efficient when the legs…
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Users First, Company Second
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I feel like I always talk about change management and adoption. When implementing a new system, I can definitely say that over the last few years I’ve seen a…
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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…
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System of Record: Everything in its Place
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I’m sitting on a plane (delayed of course for 4 hours) thinking about the people around me. I have the fabulous exit row seat on the A319 where there…
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The Vendor Demo Test Drive
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I must say that Jim Holincheck wrote a quite persuasive piece a couple months ago on why vendor scripted demos will go away. In today’s environment of SaaS applications,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Large Investments in Technology
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Perhaps I’m just a nerd, but I’ve been following the developments of the Hadron Collider for a while now. In terms of physics, there have been many theories abounding,…
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Complex Problem Solving and Change Management
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Serious hat tip to Rob Millard Rob wrote about this over 2 years ago, but the picture still exists and I stumbled upon it months ago, and then had…
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HBR on Service Oriented Architecture
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Far be it for feeble minded me to critique HBR’s SOA article entitled “Then Next Revolution in Productivity,” ((HBR June 2008, pg 73)) but that’s what I’ll do anyway. …
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Why HR Can’t Implement Web 2.0
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Joel Cheeseman wrote an interesting piece on Web 2.0 a couple months ago in the Industry Insider. An outsider is led to believe such cutting-edge tactics in the employment…
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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 1
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So it’s obvious that writing a daily blog is weighing heavily on the writer. What does one write about…? However, my daily grind is weighing even more heavily and…
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Future State: The Business Analyst as Coder
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Will the need for someone writing code ever disappear? Perhaps the real question is not if, but when this will happen. We do things today that we would not…
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Developing an Application For Yourself
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Oracle coded their compensation workbench so they could use it themselves. It’s the best module in their HR suite. What a novel idea to create an application you think…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 2
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Your technology project is completed. Your go live date is imminent. You have committed serious time and effort to changing your processes, and making sure they get implemented in…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 1
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You take on a project to change something in your organization. If you’re reading this, often you’ll be implementing some sort of technology. Why do projects fail? Often, it’s…
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Enabling versus Empowering
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In HRIT we spend so much time implementing and rolling out systems that we implicitly know that change management is an important part of any implementation. Vendors usually provide…
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Agility Methods and Project Governance
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Governance and scope creep is always one of the major problems in any project. Limited resources and continuous demand from non-project needs both elongate projects and spread resources too…