systematicHR
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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…
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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…
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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…
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HRIS Support
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Computer Economics does a survey about the TCO of IT support for ERP applications. While the executive summary is almost totally useless, it’s obvious that in HR, HRIS support…
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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…
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Stages in Talent Management Maturity
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The taleo blog recently wrote a piece about the sages of maturity for talent management solutions. I actually like this 4 stage continuum, and think it applies to more…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Degrees of SaaS
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I’ve been quite curious over the last year at the differing definitions of multi-tenancy that are given by multiple SaaS vendors. Admittedly not being a SaaS expert, or an…
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Wiki as Knoweldge Management
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We all have them in our organizations. These wonderful islands of preserved knowledge: databases of content that have been donated over time for consumption by the broader corporate population. …
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HR Technology Conference
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There are a few conferences that I think are great. There are others I think are pretty mundane. The great ones are about content, the mundane about sales, vendors,…
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Engagement Over: Workstream-Empagio
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Why Workstream wanted to be tied to Empagio in the first place never quite made sense to me. When their merger was announced several months ago, everyone knew Workstream…
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CedarCrestone 2008-2009 HR Systems Survey
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It’s not often that you get to see the results of a survey before the submission deadline is up, but Lexy Martin shared a few preliminary numbers with me….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Your Best Employees
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So who are your best employees? Are they simply the top performance scores? Are they the ones who hold the most patents? Have the best win ratio when in…
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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…