HR Strategy
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Misinterpreting Apple and Microsoft
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As a global community, we all hate Bill Gates. Actually we all hate Microsoft. While we might depend on things like Microsoft Outlook and the MS Office suite of products, most of us probably believe that they have a bit too much of a monopoly and probably have bullied around other companies to ensure that…
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Which Version of Reality?
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I’m an advocate of reality. It’s nice when you can look at something and immediately recognize it. In most cases, a reflection of reality is quite obvious. When I say the word “chair” each and every reader automatically has a concept generate in their heads – some with an armchair, some with an office chair,…
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What is HRIS?
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I’ve been exposed to a lot of HRIS organizations over the years, and some of them are great while others seem to underperform to me. They all seem do to roughly the same things, but they seem to have varying degrees of effectiveness. My thought is that while the basic tasks are the same, there…
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Balance
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My road bike is a custom titanium racing frame. It was made by a guy in Montana who is probably the cleanest welder of titanium bike frames in the world, the guy’s work is just impeccable. I don’t really need a custom bike – it’s not like my body proportions are weird or anything. I’m…
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The Art of Story
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Whether you are at a conference watching a videographer recording the event, or witnessing a $100M film getting made, the process of recording to final editing is always the same. Actually seeing how stories unfold is rather amazing – it’s the real life is nowhere near as linear as the resultant film that everyone sees. …
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Linking Communication Collaboration and Talent
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There was a time when if you wanted to collaborate, the only way to do it was either walking over to someone and having a conversation, or perhaps you could call someone’s “secretary” and leave a message. Then we got voice mail. Then we got email. We’ve been trapped in an email world for over…
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Why Can’t We Implement Succession?
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I can’t quite remember when it was, but on a recent Bill Kutik Radio Show, Bill mentioned, “One of the things that drives me crazy, is every survey that comes out, everyone says that Succession Planning is their top priority, and then the following year, the same survey states that nobody implemented it.” Bill’s absolutely…
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Understanding HR Data Governance
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We bought my wife a new bike this weekend. She is not usually a bike rider, and the last time I took her out riding with me, she swore never to go riding with me ever again. I suppose that one does not necessarily realize this if one does not have sufficient self awareness or…
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm over Texas that I’m watching has a few lightning bolts per second all localized in a small area over the course of the last 5 minutes…
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Extending HR
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I tend to buddy up taxi drivers. No, it’s not that I think they are fascinating to talk to, I have much more mundane reasons. I’m so obsessive about this that I have my own driver that I call in quite a few cities.There are actually reasons for this. First, I’m not a smoker, so…
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HR Web 2.0 Supply Chain
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In most businesses, if the supply chain stops, everything stops. Ford can’t make cars if they don’t have wheels, hospitals get pretty jammed up if all the CT machines are down, and most organizations wither away if the sales pipeline goes away. You can view almost any portion of any business from a supply chain…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Web 2.0Enterprise Digital Interactions
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I know we don’t need any more buzzwords, but at the same time, HR and corporate organizations really seem to hate calling their internal blog, wiki, networking and collaboration tools “Social” media. There is good reason for this as most organizations are not trying to encourage social behaviors at work, but professional networking, increasing connections,…
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Yellow
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I remember when I moved into my last house (I’m in a condo now, it’s what happens when you move to the Bay Area, a house becomes an apartment). We moved in and my wife had in her mind that she wanted butter yellow walls. She had a very specific “butter” in mid – not…
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Branding, Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Web 2.0Enterprise Web 2.0 and Personal Brands
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I started systematicHR something like 5 years ago as a true weblog – a place where I could record my thoughts as I went through my daily reading and research. More than 5 years after my first blog post that I never thought anyone would read but myself, systematicHR has really become my own personal…
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Oh, You’re a Recruiter
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I often have a hard time describing what I do. I mean, I’m an HR technology guy, but I don’t implement anything. And telling non-HR people that there are a whole slew of HR technologies out there to serve a wide variety of business outcomes is strange to most of the population. When I tell…
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When Things Go Wrong
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Over the last few months, we’ve been watching tremendously troubling images come out of BP’s Gulf oil spill. We often think that when things go wrong, they can usually be corrected, but sometimes something goes wrong and it’s just catastrophic. At the time of writing, the oil spill had recently overtaken the amount of oil…
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Screen Flicker and End User Annoyances
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There has been so much publicity around e-readers and the Apple iPad lately. In truth, I’m totally captivated by both of these technologies, but have not jumped in the market yet. The iPad seems wonderful since it is basically the next evolution of the net book, or mini-laptop. It has a great user interface, is…
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Next Gen Workforce Planning
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We’ve been doing a pretty good job with Talent Management in my opinion. We have pretty much deployed our systems or are in the midst of doing so. We have reengineered our core talent processes from talent acquisition to performance to succession to learning and compensation. We have started to grow our talent thinking past…
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Corporate Strategy & Talent Management
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A long (very long) time ago, I used to captain a cycling team. I had a crew of about 6 people that raced every week, and we all had our objectives and our roles. As part of our weekly training for races, we would drill the sprinter on sprinting exercises, have the guys who would…
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Leadership: The Elusive Skill
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In cycling, there is the concept of a pace line. Just as in auto racing (if you’re a NASCAR person) if you inches are behind another cyclist, you’ll save in the neighborhood of 25 to 30% of your energy as the cyclist in front of you fights the wind for you. That person in front…