The intersection between HR strategy and HR technology
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 – I totally forgot that today’s teenagers no longer care about the internet. Here’s the […]
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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 load, or just pages that don’t display correctly. Basically, letting go for a year while […]
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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 hands. He continues to as them, “who among you own a Nokia cell phone?”. The […]
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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 time Verizon user and won’t leave – since Apple is not currently available to me, […]
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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 made a serious miscalculation in tying themselves with the AT&T network and a limited population […]
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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 screens of HR for a couple of years, and sure enough, the last couple of […]
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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 you to take a standard portal and natively configure and insert your widgets (portlets, pagelets, […]
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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 in a digital world. Our world is purely analog. We just have digital processes that […]
Continue ReadingIf 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 see, most marketing snowflakes have either five or eight sides to them. Nobody seems to […]
Continue ReadingKaren 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 the sports where in its face, technology advancements seem to be shunned. After all, we […]
Continue ReadingWe’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 really know what a portal is or does. Well, intuitively we do, a portal is […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps 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 looking at point solutions even if they have had long term ERP strategies. Current day […]
Continue ReadingI 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 been realizing that the portal can be the launching point for employer branding and communications, […]
Continue ReadingAnu 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 in one single step. I’ve spent quite a bit of time sitting around on systematicHR […]
Continue ReadingI 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 probably would have phrased the Business Drivers differently – perhaps removing it as one of […]
Continue ReadingAs 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 and benefits. (ok, that’s fully debatable, I know…) But the problem is that not only […]
Continue ReadingI’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 we’re talking about when we say “the long tail” but it makes us sound smart […]
Continue ReadingFar 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 high levels of SOA adoption in the upcoming years, I’m skeptical that this is the […]
Continue ReadingJason 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 information necessary for the task at hand. The user interface should be designed with the […]
Continue ReadingI 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 this to say: Many in the Knowledge Infusion community continue to ask questions about the […]
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