HR Strategy
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100% Claims Audits Revisited
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Nearly one year ago, Double Dubs graciously asked me to be a regular contributor on this most amazing blog of his. I think all of us can agree that…
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Shaping the Workforce through Business Intelligence
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I’ve previously defined HR strategy as any direction that “shapes the workforce.” Whether this is creating an employer brand that influences they type of people you recruit, creating talent…
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A Technological Approach to Claims Audit
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The last two weeks I wrote about the ineffectiveness of traditional claims audit and the inherent conflict of interest some companies face when they perform such audits. This week…
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Creating Strategy Part 4
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Here’s part 4: 9. Think Scenarios, not Predictions ((Millard,…
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Creating Strategy Part 3
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Here’s part 3: 7. Encourage Risks; Tolerate Mistakes ((Millard,…
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Creating Strategy Part 2
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Here’s part 2: 6. Focus Action on the Short…
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Creating Strategy Part 1
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Rob Millard probably said it better: NOT on a…
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Branding, Communications, Compensation, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Mgmt, Vendors, Workforce Planning
We Have Work to Do
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For all our lofty talk about employer branding, employee engagement, communications and change management, and for all the money we’ve been spending on implementing technology, process and workflow, we…
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Succession Planning for Leadership Development
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There are now studies and metrics coming out that the “talent crisis” may not be as bad as we once thought it would be. Yes, the baby boomers are…
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TCO: Measuring Risk
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In a prior post I wrote about the Total Cost of Ownership (“TCO”) in the context of risk. Today I would like to write about techniques to measure the…
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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…
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Networking From An Island
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This was a fun way to “network” although I don’t know if you could actually call it networking if you don’t know who you’re talking to and you have…
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HBR – Why Work Should Not Be Engaging
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I’m an avid reader of Harvard Business review. Most of the time, I skip articles that are not meaningful to me. The ones I decide to read are almost…
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About Stretchwork and Career Management
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Julia Hanna recently wrote about the use of stretchwork applied to career advancement in the August 9 issue of HBS Working Knowledge. Stretchwork has been a tool utilized by…
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The Wrong HR Silos
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There’s a right way to silo HR? Well, perhaps silo is the wrong word. Certainly in many HR organizations, silo is procedurally correct as recruiting doesn’t talk to compensation…
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My Vision and Hope for SaaS
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There’s a great opportunity that SaaS has. As I think about these vendors with applications hosting scores of medium and large clients on a single installation of an application,…
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SaaS: Focus on Results
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Interesting post on ZDNet’s SaaS blog about the evolution of the application and the focus on the technology vs. the business results – misleading but interesting: Whenever customers have…
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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…
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RSS in HR
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I was reading “Branding the Feed” in Business 2.0 Magazine ((Heilemann, John, July 2006. “Branding the Feed.” Business 2.0, Volume 7, Number 6. Page 42.)) about Dick Costolo’s Feedburner…
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HR Function Commoditization – The Future of HR
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57 years ago ADP commoditized payroll. You have 100 earnings codes, a specific set of parameters each code can have, and if you want to go outside those parameters,…