HR Service Delivery
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Up In The Air – Boarding Theory
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Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have…
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Employee Portal Experience Fundamentals
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Portal redesign is fun these days. Creating widgets from our talent management systems and plugging in cool looking, drillable analytics from the business intelligence engine (also widgetized) is pretty…
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Real Life is Analog
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Not Digital. We all love digital. It makes our lives easier and faster. But I’m not sure we all have an appropriate understanding of what digital and analog really…
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Burnt to a Crisp
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I have a friend who happens to have a particular way of ordering steaks. This is interesting for a number of reasons. First, I’m not sure how many Indian…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, Functional, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy
Blending Food Flavors and Cross Functional Collaboration
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I usually write about cycling here, but I generally make it no secret that I’m a wannabe foodie. ((My other blog is a food blog)) Great food is sometimes…
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Leading Practices versus Best Practices
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Lexy Martin tweeted a link a few months back around using the term “leading practices” and banishing the term “best practices” from our vocabularies. I’ve been trying to use…
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Process Excellence – Push it forward
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What defines process excellence? There are probably (at least) two parts of the equation. Efficiency is the most obvious, as people reengineer processes to make them faster and cheaper. …
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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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HRO is not Dead
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HRO has seemed dead for at least a couple of years now. A couple years ago it was almost all I was writing about, and there were mega deals…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology
M&A – Whose System Wins?
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I must say that sometimes M&A transitions are a pain in the *** for HR and HRIT practitioners. It’s quite rare in my experience that a merger will be…
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Kaizen Bursts
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I’ve been through a lot of process mapping sessions in my life. I’ve had the good opportunity to lead many, and also the opportunity to sit in and observe. …
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Staffing for Global IT Models
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I often get the question about how to deploy HR technology services. People still seem to be in love with discovering the “best practices” in the industry, not realizing…
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Tri-athletes: Transitions
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Tri-athletes spend a lot of time working on their transitions. How many seconds does it take to get out of the water and into cycling shoes, and then onto…
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Tri-athletes: Skills
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It is not real secret that cyclists the world over hold tri-athletes in general contempt. The general consensus is that when a tri-athlete is on the bike, their bike…
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String Theory and Particles
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As long as I’m writing about the Hadron Collider, I might as well write about string theory. I’m not sure how to simplify this for non-scientists (I’m not one…
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What is a Center of Expertise?
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In our traditional 3-circle HR service delivery models (Ulrich model really), one of the major components is the center of excellence or center of expertise (COE). The COE has…
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The History and Future of HR Technology
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The history of HR technologies has for many years been about functionality. We have been increasing functionality levels for a couple of decades now. Even the recent robust growth…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – The Un-Siloing of HR
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Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. (sorry Bill, I’m a bit behind on listening to my iPod) One of the insights that I…
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Why We Don’t Need HR
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Simon Baker wrote a piece that was not as inflammatory as the well known “Why We Hate HR” article a couple years ago. I found it quite entertaining and…
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Cycling Concepts and HR: Team Time Trials
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In the team time trial, a group of cyclists (usually 4) will ride as a single unit using the technology of their bikes and ever possible advantage of drafting…