Innovation
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A Star Trek User Experience
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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…
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The Cloud
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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…
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Engagement, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, HR Technology, Innovation, Service DeliveryStrategy without Technology is Stupid
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As of about 2003, I don’t think I could live my life without my devices. Back then it was the blackberry and laptop. Now it’s my Android phone, iPad and laptop. If I lose my phone, I’m basically dead in…
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Leveling the Playing Field
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I’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he…
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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Social Media Panel
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I’ll admit. I’m devastated. Lexy Martin and Thomas Otter were both presenting at the same time as this session. Had I the option, I would have pulled a Hermione Granger Time Turner thing. You know where she goes back in…
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Apple Versus Samsung
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One of my favorite Star Trek scenes is from Star Trek 4, where Scottie tries talking to the computer. In this classic scene, one of the basic Star Trek futurisms is on display as he tries to get the…
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Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Point Solutions, Portal, Service Delivery, Vendor Mgmt, Web 2.0The Technology Does Not Sell
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Years ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns a motorola cell phone?”. A small group of students raise their…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Governance, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Knowledge MgmtManaging Thinking, Managing Knowledge
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On March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe. …
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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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Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Meaningful Experiences in Web 2.0
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I’ve complained about information overload before. As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources. Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn’t have anything to…
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm over Texas that I’m watching has a few lightning bolts per…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Web 2.0Enterprise Digital Interactions
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I know we don’t need any more buzzwords, but at the same time, HR and corporate organizations really seem to hate calling their internal blog, wiki, networking and collaboration tools “Social” media. There is good reason for this as most…
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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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What does Irony Taste Like?
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My wife and I were recently at dinner with her sister’s family. One of the boys is about 14 years old, and as we were waiting for our table, he was looking through the bottles of wines displayed nearby. (No,…
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Training Innovation
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I’ve been thinking a lot about whether you can teach people how to be innovators. As North America and EMEA slowly loses production and manufacturing work to countries like India and China, what is left behind is the design and…
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Normative Data for Employee Surveys – Worth the Spend?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. As a child, whenever I would screw up, my mother always said, “Why can’t you be more like Billy?” Billy was a straight-A student who excelled in every sport with which he was involved…
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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 allow the user to visually see where employees were located within…
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Intellectual Property and Competencies
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I was chatting with a good friend of mine whose company does work with organizations to analyze the value of ongoing IP and R&D. Ardent Research looks at current R&D and patent activity, surveys progress along that research, competitiveness against…
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Changing Talent Strategies for HR Strategies
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So how many people do you have? What are their competencies? What is the total aggregated of any particular competency in your entire employee base? What is the engagement level for each of those employee populations for those competencies? Do…
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The Singularity
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What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to self replicate, they are able to generate knowledge at a supremely…