The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology
One of my favorite all time scenes in movies is in Star Trek 4 (They Voyage Home). Scotty and McCoy are hunting a local professor to get some plexy glass, and strike a deal to get it for free. The deal? Give the professor the chemical formula for “transparent aluminum.” In order to do this, […]
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Forget about Google. One of the world’s favorite sites has got to be LMGTFY.com. “Let me google that for you.” With the wondrous world of the internet and ubiquitous information, ubiquitous access through our mobile devices, and ubiquitous connectivity, whenever someone asks a dumb question in email, you get to just send them back a […]
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“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright Every year, I have a plan. At the beginning of every year, I realize I’ve gained between 5-7 pounds from my November and December feasting. January and February are almost always diet […]
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Saint-Exupery Ok – so I don’t get out on the water that often, and I’m a cyclist so I tend to […]
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“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy wizards. If you had told me when I was in junior high there would be […]
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I’m a big fan of Jeopardy! and tend to watch when I get a chance to. I was distraught a few years ago when Ken Jennings lost to Watson, the IBM supercomputer. I personally felt like there was no chance for Ken to win against this highly quantitative, calculating machine unless they gave Watson a […]
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It’s that time of year again. The IHRIM conference is going on this week (no I’m not there), and the CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey is in full swing. I publicize this particular survey every year for a couple of reasons. I gain the most insight from CedarCrestone’s survey about HR Technology than any other. This […]
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As per my last post,at the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. Being with family for 2 weeks is quite an expose into mannerisms that each of us have. I was particularly intrigued by my brother’s questioning of my mother. My brother would constantly ask my mother things like “why […]
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At the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. When I say family vacation, I mean not just my wife and me, but my brother’s family along with my parents, visiting all of the senior members of the family (an important thing in Asian cultures). There is an incredible exposure of […]
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Note of warning: Stereotypes follow in plenty. Last year I wrote a post titled “I could have been a rice farmer.” It’s completely true that had my parents not moved from Taiwan to the United States before I was born, the possible alternatives to my life are infinite. However, I probably would not actually have […]
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There are three people who are pretty commonly in my car. They will go unnamed. One of them is pretty similar to me. She always knows where she is, which way is north, and can get around pretty well. The second has an idea, but has a tendency to say “left” when she really means […]
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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 decent HCM provider’s payroll engine to be better than one of the major payroll outsourcers. […]
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Seven years ago, we started talking about social media in HR. I remember this at a conference and nobody got it. In fact, pretty much all the HR people said that it was a bad idea, it was not for the workplace, and it would just get us into trouble. The concerns may have been […]
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Every now and then, I’m parked at a mall, convention center, airport, and I ask myself, “now where did I park my car? OK, so I don’t lose my car that often, but on occasion it happens. OK, I’m not at the mall or convention center that often either. At any rate, the appropriate action […]
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So I have to admit it’s hard to come off the election and not write about this. This election was defined by some pretty deep population analysis, incredible forecasting and pretty significant actions to try to address the most important populations. All of this went right along with a prioritization model that was pretty strong. […]
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An interesting thing happened at the recent HR Technology Conference. During Naomi Bloom’s “Master Panel,” when Mike Capone noted that ADP had the first SaaS application, before anyone else and before anyone called it SaaS, many of my compatriots on twitter decided to tweet this statement. I have no issues with announcing to the world […]
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I’ve always thought I was pretty good at analytics.Not being a practitioner who is sitting in the middle of data all the time, I get more time to just think about the type of analytics that it takes to really run the business. It’s been a really long time since I discounted the usefulness of […]
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