HR Technology
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Still Grappling With Data Security
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Today I was going through airport security with my wife. I got randomly selected for a screening, which consisted of wiping my hands with a cottonish fabric and sending it through the scanner that detects explosives or something like that. After the screening, I commented to my wife, “so don’t all the terrorists know to…
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Infographics Suck
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I was riding my bike around Marin (north of San Francisco) this fall, it was a bit cloudy, grey and not as bright as usual. Just the week before, I had purchased a new pair of lenses for my sunglasses, just for this occasion, and I was absolutely stunned at the difference it made to…
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Is Big Data An HR Directive?
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I have an argument with my wife every few years. I tend to like cars with a bit more horsepower. I mean, that 1 time a year when there is a really stupid driver about to crash into you, a few extra horses comes in handy when you really need to speed away. The problem…
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Is Cloud The Way To Go?
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So I had to upgrade my cell phone contract. I used to be on this thing where I had a bucket of minutes and text messages to use, and now I’m on exactly the opposite. I have unlimited phone and text and about 10 GB of data I can use every month. It really points…
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How To Give All The Wrong Answers
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As per my last post,at the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. Being with family for 2 weeks is quite an expose into mannerisms that each of us have. I was particularly intrigued by my brother’s questioning of my mother. My brother would constantly ask my mother things like “why…
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How To Ask All The Wrong Questions
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At the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. When I say family vacation, I mean not just my wife and me, but my brother’s family along with my parents, visiting all of the senior members of the family (an important thing in Asian cultures). There is an incredible exposure of…
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All Posts, Engagement, Gamification, HR Strategy, Learning Mgmt, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Talent, Talent MgmtI Could Have Been A Ditch Digger
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Note of warning: Stereotypes follow in plenty. Last year I wrote a post titled “I could have been a rice farmer.” It’s completely true that had my parents not moved from Taiwan to the United States before I was born, the possible alternatives to my life are infinite. However, I probably would not actually have…
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Branding, Change Management, Communications, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Implementation, Portal, Service DeliveryDysfunctional Self Service
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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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All Posts, Branding, Collaboration, Communications, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social TalentSocial Trust, Authority and Contributorship
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There are three people who are pretty commonly in my car. They will go unnamed. One of them is pretty similar to me. She always knows where she is, which way is north, and can get around pretty well. The second has an idea, but has a tendency to say “left” when she really means…
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Systems Deployment for the 99%
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Believe it or not, when it comes to personal technology, I’m not in the 1%. Come to think of it, I’m pretty darn sure I’m not in any 1%, but that’s not quite the point. I finally got a new phone after sitting around on my last phone for 2 years – it was ancient. …
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Analytics and Big Data, Collaboration, Communications, Data & Metrics, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR TechnologyI Don’t Want No Stinkin’ Analytics!
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I’m a nerd. I get on my bike or I go for a run, and I’ve got my Garmin GPS running the whole time telling me how far I went, how fast I went, what my heart rate was, (ok I’ll stop the list well before it gets to 20 items). I also happen to…
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All Posts, Engagement, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Vendor Mgmt, VendorsCedar Crestone HR Technology Survey: Create a Winning HR Function
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All too often, I get an industry report to read and end up saying to my colleagues, “wow this is crap.” Case in point, at the end of 2012, I got a widely read industry report that rated a halfway decent HCM provider’s payroll engine to be better than one of the major payroll outsourcers. …
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The Cloud
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Seven years ago, we started talking about social media in HR. I remember this at a conference and nobody got it. In fact, pretty much all the HR people said that it was a bad idea, it was not for the workplace, and it would just get us into trouble. The concerns may have been…
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Engagement, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Strategy and Technology, HR Technology, Innovation, Service DeliveryStrategy without Technology is Stupid
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As of about 2003, I don’t think I could live my life without my devices. Back then it was the blackberry and laptop. Now it’s my Android phone, iPad and laptop. If I lose my phone, I’m basically dead in the water – no contact with the outside world… I’m totally cut off. When I’m…
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The Social Recruiting Process: What You Need to Know
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Techniques being used to find and hire talent have changed significantly in the last few years and it’s quickly moving toward a social process. According to a survey from Jobvite, 92% of companies in the US used social platforms for recruiting in 2012. 73% successfully hired a candidate through social media – a drastic increase from…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Functional, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Service Delivery, Web 2.0I Can Finally Buy My Dad a Smart Phone
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Just a couple years ago, my parents came back to the US after years of being overseas missionaries. They have been in Siberia, on a random island in the Pacific, etc… and they came back to a world where cell phones were ubiquitous and information was accessible everywhere. My father is now over 70 years…
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Leveling the Playing Field
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I’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he stronger, have significantly more endurance, but he also seemed to start reverse aging (age spots…
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All Posts, Blogging, Change Management, Communications, Data & Metrics, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Technology, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Web 2.0Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd Metrics
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Every now and then, I’m parked at a mall, convention center, airport, and I ask myself, “now where did I park my car? OK, so I don’t lose my car that often, but on occasion it happens. OK, I’m not at the mall or convention center that often either. At any rate, the appropriate action…
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Using HR Analytics to WIN
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So I have to admit it’s hard to come off the election and not write about this. This election was defined by some pretty deep population analysis, incredible forecasting and pretty significant actions to try to address the most important populations. All of this went right along with a prioritization model that was pretty strong. …
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Why Aren’t We Using Our Analytics?
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There are everyday annoyances, and then there are just things that piss you off. Usually the things that make me really angry are when something should have been fixed, but it hasn’t been. Or something is happening too slowly where I should have just done something myself and been done with it. Personally, I think I’m…