systematicHR
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Annual HR Technology Survey
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There are some things that inform all of us in HR about what is going on with our industry and where things are headed. Of all these useful tools, the annual CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey is one of the top…
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Creating Information from Knowledge from Collaboration
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It’s nice being a consultant. People like consultants because we have a specific approach to a problem. We talk to lots of people, look at lots of documents, conduct workshops. Then we synthesize what we have learned and create judgments…
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The Pain Threshold
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Lance Armstrong was a US National Champion and a World Champion long before he ever won seven (eight?) Tours de France. The man was always known in cycling circles as the next big gun in US cycling. In one race…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology, ImplementationMissing Steps
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I started my day on Monday at 4am when my cab picked me up to head to the airport. As he missed the airport exit (how does that even happen?) I thought to myself that missing my plane would cause…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
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Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in the morning, weigh myself, stand on the scale for a few…
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Annual Plug for the HR Technology Survey
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Here’s the link – just go take it. www.cedarcrestone.com/survey/systematicHR.html For those of you who are actually going to read this, there are several surveys out there that the industry counts on for trending year over year. How much are people…
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Deception and Selling Your Data
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US President Obama is a Muslim, right? Raised in Kenya, he’s a Mau Mau sympathizer, and actually not even a US citizen (masterfully covered up I must add). Apparently in a new poll, fully 50% of the US population registered…
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Better Measures for Engagement
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Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with a statistically validated measurement of our workforce once or twice a…
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Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Point Solutions, Portal, Service Delivery, Vendor Mgmt, Web 2.0The Technology Does Not Sell
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Years ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns a motorola cell phone?”. A small group of students raise their…
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Commonizing Meaning
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I have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is Taiwanese for highly unlikely or that’s ridiculous. (sp?) “Oh shiitake” (shitzu…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Governance, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Knowledge MgmtManaging Thinking, Managing Knowledge
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On March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe. …
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Decision effectiveness
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A few years ago, i had a custom set of wheels made for my bike. I had the rims specifically weighed and picked out of a set of about 10 rims. I had the spokes weighed and balanced to make…
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Talent Evolution versus Revolution
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If you just bought one of the new 3D TVs that have been on he market for a year or so, i have bad news for you. Its already old technology. Sure, 3D is brand new, and its going to…
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Perspective and Benchmarking
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In my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must have a therapist (shrink for those of you in New York),…
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Fusion HCM Website is Up
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Just an FYI since this appears to be about the softest launch we’ve seen in ages. Considering we’ve been waiting for Fusion for a while. Here’s an FYI that the website is up and perhaps the software is in GA…
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I Should Have Been A Rice Farmer
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OK, I’m Taiwanese, and I recently went back to Taiwan to visit family and see the “home country” that I’ve never been to. As I stayed in the apartment my family had rented, surrounded by rice paddies on all sides,…
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Nerves and Decision Governance
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What makes us intelligent, able to make decisions based on our surrounding and pdictions of the future is not that we have an emmense amount of knowledge packed into our brains. Rather, what makes us different as human beings is…
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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
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Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. While you’re at…
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Nucleating agents for change
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Interesting thing about water. You can pretty significantly influence the temperature at which water freezes simply by introducing an agent to it. But there are other times when water actually should freeze, when it is pure and below the freezing…
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Recruiting Engagement
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So, I used to write this blog for me. Honestly, I could have cared less that anyone was reading it. It has been a great exercise for almost 6 years – forcing me to continuously thing and read and research. …