HR Technology
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UFO’s: Unfinished Objects
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I’m not sure who first coined the term “shelfware.” Most of our IT departments have all sorts of stuff we have purchased that we intend to implement but just…
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Implementation and the “Personal Win”
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We always end up talking about employee adoption whenever we are implementing anything whether it’s technology, process or anything else. When we talk about adoption, we’re really talking change…
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The Marketing of Snowflakes
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If you ever look at a snowflake dangling from the window at your local Macy’s or Bloomingdales, realize that this snowflake is only a piece of marketing, there to…
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SuccessFactors: Success = Strategy + Execution
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I was looking at a SuccessFactor’s employee laptop the other day and she had a huge sticker on it with the words “Success = Strategy + Execution.” I could…
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Employee Engagement Surveys – Cost-cutting strategy when using a vendor
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Those of you in smaller organizations who have worked in HR/OD for even just a few years are sure to be familiar with…
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Change Management, Enterprise Solutions, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy, HR Technology
M&A – Whose System Wins?
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I must say that sometimes M&A transitions are a pain in the *** for HR and HRIT practitioners. It’s quite rare in my experience that a merger will be…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – Karen Beaman Follow-up
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. …
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
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A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last…
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The Bill Kutik Radio Show: Karen Beaman
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Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. …
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Kaizen Bursts
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I’ve been through a lot of process mapping sessions in my life. I’ve had the good opportunity to lead many, and also the opportunity to sit in and observe. …
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Cycling Technology: GPS
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Yeah, believe it or not, I have a GPS on my bike. It’s even a Garmin. With a push of a button I can go to a screen that…
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Makings of a Consultant
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I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter…
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Cycling Technology: Power Meters
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Cycling is an easy sport to figure out from a measurement perspective. Speed is a function of power output and weight (all other things held constant). So if you’re…
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Cycling Technology: Gears
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There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing. In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes. Today, I still ride what is…
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Cycling Technology: Bike Frame Materials
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Karen Beaman wrote a guest post somewhere on the technology of tennis. I’ve occasionally written about cycling here, but thought I’d go into more detail on the technology of…
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Normative Data for Employee Surveys – Worth the Spend?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. As a child, whenever I would screw up, my mother always said, “Why can’t you be more like Billy?” Billy was a straight-A…
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Unbundling HR
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Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems that we’ve been seeing for many years now. She is exactly right, that often times the…
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What is a portal?
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We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self…
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Translating HR Data Elements globally
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Global HR data is tough. Often times when we’re thinking about implementing a global core HR system, or a global data warehouse, we implement these systems according to a…
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Addicting HR
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Can you make your managers addicted to HR? Can you make them care about processes and policies and procedures? Do they really care about the employee engagement score? Personally,…