HR Strategy
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Outsourcing and Strategic HR
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Andrew wrote a nice piece about outsourcers and how they have to change their “look” in order to succeed in the future. To quote him, Business service providers need to be strategic to truly succeed. Indeed, being strategic can often…
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HRO and non-cost decision drivers
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First of all, if you have never looked here – check out Cap Gemeni’s library. So Cap Gemeni comes out with a survey that organizations looking to outsource really have other objectives other than cost savings. Obviously these have to…
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Plumtree portals and ROI
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Plumtree has just made it much easier to substantiate the ROI on your portal investment. Of course, your organization has to be using the Plumtree portal, but this is one of the best out there anyway. Portals generally allow you…
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HR and Sarbanes Oxley
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Obviously if you read my prior posts, I have some focus on what the role of HR and SOX is, but most companies still don’t see the connection. Clearly HR is critical in communicating changes and implementing training to the…
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Employee Value Propositions
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Andrew from the strategic resourcing blog had some nice comments about building employee value propositions (VP). Even though my blog is about HR technology, many companies lose sight of strategic VP’s as they implement technology and process to add to…
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HR Budget Funding
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Surprise surprise!! This article begins by stating that HR is often the last department to get funding for technology and process automation. However, this historical trend seems to be changing as HR becomes more strategic. The article does not really…
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IM as part of your technology strategy
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HR.com pushed out a very interesting article about IM and how it can reshape communications in your organization. “The promise of IM is compelling: real-time, text-based communication that cuts through the usual social niceties of face-to-face conversation, phone calls, and…
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HR isn’t a people business anymore
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This is kind of an interesting post for anyone who still thinks HR is an administrative function and for people who want to enter HR because they are people oriented. Increasingly, those aspects of HR that were people oriented are…
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How Interest rate hikes affect ROI
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As interest rates keep inching higher, HR professionals often have trouble with creating ROI presentations that are meaningful to financial executives. This week, Greenspan announced that there is some inflation risk in the economy, meaning that interest rates may rise…
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Sarbanes Oxley and a case for Outsourcing
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Thought I’d take a minute to comment on Deloitte’s top 10 problems for financial reporting in 2005. See it here Note that the top 2 items are very HR oriented (number 2 because it hits everyone). The first item is…
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Top 5 HR priorities from Genesys survey
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Take this with a grain of salt as this is a Genesys press release and these “trends” may just be application areas they are strong in. http://www.genesyshcm.com/Docs/news/trends_survey_results-pr.html I’ve never paid too much attention to Genesys until recently as I’ve considered…