HR Strategy
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Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking
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Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago. People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and then often left the organization leaving little trace of the knowledge…
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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…
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HR Success in 100 Days
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Mercer has a nice little write-up about your first 100 days as the CHRO of an organization. Here are five things Mercer says your should be thinking about. 1. Connect the goals of the HR function to the goals of…
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Innovation in Human Capital Management
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In my existential search for meaning in HR, I’ve tried for a very long time to understand what HR could really do for the business. Certainly talent and our ability to contribute to directing talent’s growth through talent management is…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided – don’t predict organizational performance.” ((Bassi, Laurie and McMurrer, Daniel, March…
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Revisiting HR 2.0
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I’m not sure anyone knows what HR 2.0 actually is. I’ve taken my shots a few times, but more often than not I’ve been talking about HR’s role in innovation. Terrance pointed out a conversation that’s been going on at…
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HR’s Decision Support
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SHRM’s study of HR technology competencies (no link, but easy to find if you’re a member) revealed some not so surprising facts last year. According to them (and every other study we get out of the HR vendor industry) more…
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Redefining HRO
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Jason Corsello recently posted a great analysis of the state of HRO. His take is that the industry is on it’s 3rd generation of development, and the description of these 3 generations is so priceless that I thought I’d repost…
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Longer Term HRO Viability as Change Management
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I’ve always been fascinated by HRO and it’s been a constant topic here on systematicHR since the beginning. While it certainly would seem to make sense that sharing resources across a variety of organizations would save some money, there’s always…
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Defining the MidMarket – Does It Exist?
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What is the mid-market? I define it as somewhere between 10,000 and 25,000 employees. Some organizations go as low as 1,000 employees. Certainly there’s a disparity in the definition, but the employee count is not nearly as important as some…
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HR Function KPI’s
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HR function KPI’s are defined the same way as Human Capital KPI’s except that they are internally focused, rather than focused on the broader organization. One should not be blind to the large amount of overlap that the two types…
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Human Capital KPI’s
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HR key performance indicators can be both incredibly difficult or quite simple to generate, depending on the type of indicator you’re looking for. The main problem with your KPI’s is that you need to first make the switch between simple…
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Generation Y Mobile Technology: The Future of Work
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I’m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR. However, I was listening to yet another ZDnet interview with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology. “…desire…
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Redefining Innovation
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The American Heritage Dictionary simply defines innovation as “The act of introducing something new.” ((American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com on April 3, 2007.)) ZDnet has a pretty nice CIO interview series. In one of them, Steve Cooper, the CIO…
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What Innovation Looks Like (really)
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Image information in footnote ((Research and node layout by Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans; data from Thompson ISI; graphics & typography by W. Bradford Paley. Commissioned and partially supported by Katy Borner and the Places and Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition….
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Educating for a Lifetime
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With rapid changes in technology, the business environment, and the dynamic nature of knowledge usability in the modern world, managing one’s career becomes increasingly difficult. Necessity dictates that employees not only change careers more often as their interests change and…
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Change Management Quotes
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The change management blog had a great list of change quotes. I built my own list, basically to address the CM theme I’ve been drilling for the last two years that change management is not about training and communications (that’s…
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Happiness vs. Engagement
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All too often the pursuit of happiness has been equated with the pursuit of money or a better job (a.k.a. money). Even Will Smith’s latest movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” which I think…
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Great HR Podcast Ideas
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I’ve been thinking about how would could both communicate through podcasts. Certainly there are the obvious applications. If you do a corporate meeting, why not record it and make it available for download? If the President of the U.S. gets…
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Defining Employee Engagement
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In 2006, The Conference Board published “Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications”. According to this report, twelve major studies on employee engagement had been published over the prior four years by top research firms such as…