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    More Changes at Hewitt

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    In case you missed it, HRO Today recently reported the following: “A former president of national accounts at competitor ADP, Jay C. Rising, 50, has been named president of Hewitt’s HRO business. Additionally, former acting president Julie Gordon has been…

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    Top HRO Deals

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    Who’s paying attention?  Did the value of HRO deals go down in 2006?  Sure, there were much fewer $1B deals, but what was the cause of that?  Were there overall fewer deals as well? I’m thinking that deals are starting…

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    HRO Market Leaders

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    It’s interesting that only several vendors hold a large majority of the market share in the HRO world – almost an 80/20 rule.  If you look at the top 3 (Hewitt, Accenture and ADP) you are probably getting close to…

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    How Did They Get Here – Hewitt Associates

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    The other day I was trying to remember what happened to a company in the benefits administration space I used to deal with quite regularly.  Of course, as been happening with increasing regularity, it had been acquired some years ago…

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    Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?

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    Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results.  It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them again.  Rather, as the recognized leader in HRO, Hewitt can be…

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    Hewitt’s Lessons Learned

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    From time to time companies exhibit moments of organizational maturity not often enough seen in the market.  This week’s moment comes to us courtesy of Hewitt Associates’ Mike Wright, global HRO sales co-leader, during his presentation last month at the…

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    TCO: Measuring Risk

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    In a prior post I wrote about the Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) in the context of risk.  Today I would like to write about techniques to measure the cost of risk, particularly in the case of administering benefit plans….

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    Russ Fradin: The New CEO at Hewitt Associates

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    Last week I promised to write about measuring risk related to group benefit plans and techniques on evidence based cost avoidance (when I put it that way, it sounds so boring!)  I’m sorry, but some other news broke last week…

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    Talk About Hewitt

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    There’s been a lot of it lately.  Our own Donald Glade wrote about it here, and Jason did here. First off, my response to Jason Corsello:  ADP should not buy Hewitt. ADP does not have a proven track record integrating…

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    Shake up at Hewitt

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    The rumors have been around in the market for some time now, but this past week it showed up in print:  What does surprise Pramuk and other experts, however, is that Hewitt doesn’t have a successor in place for Salvino….

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    HRO Vendor Positioning (Scorecard)

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    Accenture: Accenture is like ExcellerateHRO and Hewitt. With a great HR consulting group and an ability to execute the technology, Accenture was in the market early enough to capture great market share. Unlike Hewitt, they have great flexibility in their…

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    SOA and SaaS – The Future of Enterprise HR

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    Is ERP dead? Well, not really. At least not in the enterprise HR market. Net yet anyway. cryptic enough?) The truth is that there isn’t anyone out there looking to compete with Oracle and SAP over the enterprise HR market…

  • What’s up at Hewitt?

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    Jason also posted this about Hewitt recently. I actually don’t have a further comment other than I’ve been seeing lots of laid off Hewitt associates filtering through other organizations. Anyone know the full extent of these layoffs and to what…

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    HRO Buying Process Guide

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    Prior Post updated to include real links to the publisher. I had the text of the entire series, but only 4 of 6 links below. You’ll have to look for the other 2. This is a 6 part series in…

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    Hewitt for sale?

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    Somewhere in my last 100 posts I mentioned that Hewitt was in a fairly weak operational position and might be an aquisition target. I’ll have to admit that I didn’t really believe it, and honestly I still don’t. They are…

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    Hewitt BPO leads the industry?

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    While Hewitt clearly has the biggest name and the most large clients right now, I’m not so sure if they are the clear leaders as this Hewitt press release indicates. Let’s face it, Hewitt doesn’t seem to be making a…

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    HRO News

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    Here’s the link, but I’ve pasted some of the text below if you don’t have a log-in: There is a lot of proof out there that HRO and BPO are still going strong. Recent studies by The Everest Group, Workforce…

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    HRO update

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    This is actually an Indian update on the HRO market, but it has some interesting facts and opinions. First off, I had no idea that Hewitt was creating an outsourcing center there, but it’s not a surprise. I’m sure that…

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    Single sourcing HRO?

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    What’s up with HRO vendors revisited. As sort of a follow-up to my last post on HR Consultancies, here’s an interesting article about HRO and the wisdom of single sourcing your entire HR relationship to one vendor. I’m not actually…

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    What’s up with HRO vendors?

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    The human resource outsourcing industry may be the fastest growth segment of BPO. However, the US HRO (HR BPO) market is in complete dissaray. Nobody has the entire service offering put together in a package that provides functionality and service…