Portal
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Cloud, Collaboration, Communications, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, HR Technology, Portal, Portal Technology, Service Delivery, SocialThe new HR Portal is not an HR Portal
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What exactly was Web 1.0? I honestly can’t even remember. I barely even remember Web 2.0 other than it was the advent of user interactivity so minimally executed that today’s teenagers would not even recognize it as internet. Oh, wait…
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Branding, Change Management, Communications, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation, Portal, Service DeliveryDysfunctional Self Service
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So I’ve been away for a year and I’ve let this website go a little bit. (I just started back up in September) I mean, if you click on any number of links, you’ll find error pages, pages that don’t…
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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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The Lowest Common Denominator
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I’ve been trying to sell people on the Google Android operating system for smart phones lately. I’m not sure that it’s really about the Android versus the iPhone for me – more likely it’s the fact that I’m a long…
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Change Management, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Technology, Portal, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Android versus iPhones
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The web is alive with comparisons of Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. While it seemed for a long time that the iPhone was going to own the market, Android has slowly picked up steam. In fact, Apple may have…
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Defining Web 2.0
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It’s probably long past time to write some definitions. In fact, I’ve done this before, probably every time I write a post about Web 2.0. A few years ago, I said that Web 2.0 would not be on the radar…
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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 cool. The technology advances in the last few years that allow…
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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 mean. The fact of the matter is that we don’t live…
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The Marketing of Snowflakes
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If you ever look at a snowflake dangling from the window at your local Macy’s or Bloomingdales, realize that this snowflake is only a piece of marketing, there to draw your eye, but not an accurate representation of reality. You…
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Cycling Technology: Bike Frame Materials
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Karen Beaman wrote a guest post somewhere on the technology of tennis. I’ve occasionally written about cycling here, but thought I’d go into more detail on the technology of cycling and its impacts on performance. Cycling is actually one of…
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What is a portal?
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We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self service and reporting tools portals, even though most of us don’t…
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Core HR in a Point Solution World
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Perhaps the statement that we now live in a “point solution world” for HR is a bit bold. Certainly in large and medium sized organizations, ERP deployments are still strong. However, we do know that these same organizations are increasingly…
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What is portal?
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I mean really, we have these things called portals that are mostly transactional self service engines these days. But we at least realize there is potential for so much more. Instead of allowing employee and manager look-ups and transactions, we’ve…
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The Realities of Integrated UI
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Anu posted this image of simplicity for user interface designs. While it’s a bit of a caricature on how Apple and Google have designed their UI’s, it’s really quite accurate at a basic level. Everything you need to do is…
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine behind e2.0, but as usual I have a few comments. I…
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Integrating Talent Applications (Suites)
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As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we are used to expecting with more mature applications like HRIS, payroll…
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HR’s Long Tail
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I’ll be honest – I’m a bit sick of talking about the long tail. We’re all so enamored by talking about is as if it makes us all business theorists. I find that half of us don’t really know what…
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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. While I’m a firm believer that SOA and that we’ll see…
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Give Me A “Sexy” UI Any Day
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Jason and I might have to disagree on this one. Can we please stop saying “…and the user interface is sexy”! User interfaces should not be “sexy” nor are they! User interfaces should be clean and simple, presenting only the…
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What’s the Difference Between Web 2.0 and SOA?
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I almost want to say that these are two often confused technologies that have nothing to do with each other, but that’s going a bit too far. Earlier this week I was reading the Knowledge Infusion blog and they had…