Portal
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The Toyota Way: Principle 7
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Use visual control so no problems are unhidden. One of the best modern tools we have is the data warehouse and the dashboard. We have totally current metrics available to any of us, if we would just implement the technology. However, there are also tools that many of us use day to day ins some…
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How Web 2.0 Will Boost Productivity
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The introduction of consumer driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a phase of productivity growth that could surpass that of the late 1990’s boom, says John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems. “We are at the very beginning of the next phase of creativity, that will last, I…
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Does Web 2.0 Suck?
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Michael thinks web 2.0 sucks. Actually, he doesn’t, he’s the biggest user of new technologies I know. But enterprise users have been slow to adopt the technology. I talked about capturing collaboration networks in HR using web 2.0 technologies, but take a look at Sean Rehder’s excellent rebuttal in the comments section. There are good…
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AJAX User Interface in HR
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Much commotion was made about AJAX last year when it took hold in the web marketplace. Certainly the web applications of it are marvelous and bloggers like myself spent much time wondering where it would go and what forms it might take shape in. I personally held my opinion until I saw more of it…
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The Most Critical Jobs
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Why is it that the jobs that are really important are always the ones that are overlooked? Either they are overlooked, pushed aside, or when times get tough, are the first to go. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks. Recently a friend of mine head that his job was…
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Employee Self Service – Lessons From Web Design
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Information Architects put out a list of their top 50 websites and what factors made them successful. I particularly like IA’s tagline of “Interface Design is Brand Design.” As you think about your self service sites, understanding that driving adoption and branding at the same time is a key factor in overall success. IA puts…
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Employee Self Service – Lessons From eCommerce
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HR service delivery usually encompasses a combination of on-site representation (face to face) and call centers for phone communications. However, more and more our self service sites are also playing a role in the service delivery mix. When we’re talking about on-line customer service as it applies to employee and manager self service, we need…
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Usability and Accessibility as Brand
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When we think of the employer brand, how often are we thinking about our HR technology suite as contributors to that brand? In general, I’m not talking about your HRMS type applications. Instead, the applications that touch employees and managers such as self service and portal are critical user interfaces that can offer a major…
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HRIT and Communications Strategy Overlap
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I think it’s apparent that I love talking about portal. Much of what I talk about is fairly theoretical and visionary considering not all the technologies are actually fully capable of delivering what I’d like to see, but we’re getting closer. Part of portal is easy for HR technologists. Making sure that the functional technologies…
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Cedar Crestone HCM Survey 2006
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Cedar recently released their 2006 HCM survey with some interesting results and interpretations. I’m not going to regurgitate their findings, but here are a few items I though worth thinking about. Five applications cause operating income growth among publicly traded respondent organizations (manager self service, career development, workforce measurement, talent acquisition, and performance management solutions).…
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The Future of UI
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One of the reasons I write so much about the user interface (UI), portals and SOA is that I believe HR technology’s future is very much about how we engage and increase end user adoption. In an increasingly dispersed global corporate environment, technology must be accessible, consolidated, and easy. These attributes will result in more…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 1
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When I went to college, the big thing in the interpretation of American ethic culture was a debate about a melting pot or a salad bowl. In honesty, they are nice images – in a melting pot, all ethnicities represented in American society were homogenized and made “American.” In the salad bowl, each individual component…
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Change Management, Communications, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Knowledge Mgmt, Learning Mgmt, Portal
HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development
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In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as company commanders, each responsible for three platoons, or about 120 soldiers. At the end of…
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Total Comp Integration
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One of the beautiful things about integrated total compensation is that it’s easy to get – you can buy if from any one of hundreds of vendors. (there are probably only a few dozen who actually do it well though). I said it’s easy to get, not necessarily easy to do. Total compensation is really…
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How Integration Should Look at the UI
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How drilldowns really work: When we think about how we want integration to look when brought forward to the user interface, we want true usability as opposed to the simple presentation of data. As we make life easier for our managers and employees, what we’re really doing is making the process simpler and allowing managers…
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Succession Planning to LMS, EPM Integration
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Integration between the various functional “modules” that make up a talent management suite (TMS) are numerous, and in the next couple of days, I’ll cover a couple variations. The first is data integration that revolves around a succession planning process. In my humble opinion, succession planning is not an activity that requires a huge amount…
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Performance Management to Compensation Management Integration
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Unfortunately for most managers, technologists usually see a need to integrate performance scores with the compensation planning tools, but not much more than that. The reality is that if you are a manager, you really need more than just a score. First of all, the score has to be meaningful in some way, and second…
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HR Technology, Branding and Environmentalism
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Going where I never thought I’d go… But the HRIQ blog wrote this page about the amount of waste generated by a workplace in a single year. Apparently the average worker can throw away ONE QUARTER OF A TONNE OF MATERIALS PER YEAR, according to Eco Office! They equate this to having depth of up…
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The Future of HR Technology
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I’m looking at a convergence of talent, portals and business intelligence. The next wave of technology is not around any specific functionalty. The next wave is going to be about integration with the rest of the business. Talent, portal and BI technology all still have long runways in terms of development and sales. In now…
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Does HR Technology Define HR Strategy?
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Or does HR strategy define HR technology? The honest answer is probably both, but I’m going to argue that HR technology leads more often than not. It isn’t that strategy does not contribute to new functionality, but technology opens so many doors that the end effect is the ability to concentrate on otherwise impossible ideas.…