HR Strategy
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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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Microsoft’s Attempt at GenY
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Hey, Genius. We want you. We know you’re genius in some way or another. Whether you’re code crazy, binary brilliant or master of origami dollhouses, it’s all good by us. So if you’re feeling genius at the moment, or just…
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Diagramming Web 2.0 versus Enterprise 2.0
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I like pictures. CIPD published a paper that was honestly quite annoying, but contained a couple of little gems. I was annoyed because the paper was entitled Web 2.0 and HR, but it never got past defining what Web 2.0…
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Complex Problem Solving and Change Management
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Serious hat tip to Rob Millard Rob wrote about this over 2 years ago, but the picture still exists and I stumbled upon it months ago, and then had a second look a couple weeks ago. Rob pointed me to…
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The Stupidity of Crowds
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I have a lot of favorite bloggers. I think I’ve tipped my virtual hat over to Rob Millard quite often here, but I was going backwards in time reading some of his old posts and got to reflecting on an…
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Innovation is an HR Problem
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I was reading an article in a recent McKinsey Quarterly on innovation. The Quarterly was interviewing Brad Bird from Pixar, and I was surprised how often employee engagement came up. Sure, Brad talked about collaboration and all the rest, but…
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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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Growth and Sustainability – Where Does HR Fit In?
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Global warming on the minds of executives. They may not actually care, but they realize that the growth of their business will partly depend on the sustainability of their products and the consciousness around environmental issues that the company can…
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US Businesses for Sale?
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Back in I guess what was the 80’s, there was all the rage over Japanese money buying US property and business. Well times have changed and there is an interesting dichotomy going on. Now, the U.S. economy is outsourcing to…
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HR Budgets & the Economy
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The economy is in the tank, and while predictions are that things will get better in 2009, many HR leaders are doing budgets right now. The problem with recessions and HR is that HR budgets often take longer to come…
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Offboarding
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There is a single offboarding experience that sticks out in my mind as one of the most positive work experiences I’ve ever had. While these days we have technology and alumni networks to help us out, successful offboarding is more…
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Where People Fit in the Toyota Way
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A while back I wrote a series on the Toyota Way. Toyota is unquestionably one of the top manufacturing companies in the world producing high quality products at a very low cost. At the center of this is the Toyota…
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Management Gurus: Peter Principle and HR
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While I’m sure everyone thinks I’m going to write about Tom Peters, instead, there is another, more famous Peter Principle out there: The Peter Principle is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level…
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Management Gurus: Drucker and HR
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Interestingly enough, Peter Drucker was writing about talent management as early as 1945. He was clearly decades ahead of his time, and his earliest writings still contain lessons for all of management including the HR function. Drucker was keen on…
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10 Job Fair Tips That Really Work (For the Recruiter)
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The following was contributed to the site: Whether you are looking for interns or executives, attending a job fair can be a very effective strategy for recruiters. With the advent of Web 2.0, many hiring managers are increasingly dependent on…
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What Integration Means
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From an applications technology point of view, we’ve all known that integration simply means connecting data from one software component to another. Often we’ve used integration to mean that functional modules within a single suite (such as ERP – Oracle…
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Gaming and Collaboration
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Gen Y. They sit at their PC’s, play their games, and avoid all real social contact. As they enter the workforce, their lack of social skills will be a mismatch to that of the broader workforce who value direct, one…
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Recession Technology
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With the U.S. and probably global economy slowing down, we’d all expect technology spending to slow down with it. After all, in 2001 when the “bubble burst,” it took a few years (I’d guess 2004) for the IT money to…
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The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce
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Karen Beaman states that the workforce is changing: Multi-Generational – we are are now seeing up to four generations of workers working simultaneously in the workplace — Veterans, Boomers, X’ers, and New Mils — each with differing world views, work/life…