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The Evolution of Standardization
Read more: The Evolution of StandardizationSo my wife has been on a homemade donut kick lately. That’s right, every weekend I get to sample another dozen donuts. Those of you who read often know that my constant struggle to stay fit must work really well when there is a new batch of donuts sitting around the house every Saturday morning.…
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Core HR is not a Hub
I came across this quite a few years ago as we started to tinker around with core HR systems needing to integrate with more systems than just payroll and benefits, and as analytics engines started to take off en masse. Back in the first part of the millenium as talent applications started to get a…
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Behavioral Non-Interviews
Remembering back to college admissions days (which many of you might have kids going through that right now), one of the best parts of the whole process is doing the college tour thing and doing interviews at the various prospective schools. For 4 year degrees, the risk of not performing well on the interview is probably minimal, but it’s a…
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Stop Selling Apps: SaaS is a Service
Increasingly, I’m seeing organizations change their buying habits, at least in theory. Vendor selections are no longer the total domain of functional requirements as they once were. We don’t care nearly as much about feature functionality and our ability to customize the software to our specific needs. Instead, we’re shifting to a couple of different…
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Engagement is Economic Theory
I was having a recent conversation with John Sumser where we discussed my need to be an engaged employee. Indeed, I’m that guy who is almost always engaged because I honestly love my work. I’m one of those unique people who actually find the world of HR and HR technology interesting. In general, I’m the…
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Differentiation in SaaS
A while back, I was an SC for a large vendor organization. It was a lot of fun highlighting the great stuff in my applications (actually – those were the fun parts). But our jobs were to help find solutions as well as workarounds to things that could simply not be done. Given this is…
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The Lowest Common Denominator
I’ve been trying to sell people on the Google Android operating system for smart phones lately. I’m not sure that it’s really about the Android versus the iPhone for me – more likely it’s the fact that I’m a long time Verizon user and won’t leave – since Apple is not currently available to me,…
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Android versus iPhones
The web is alive with comparisons of Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. While it seemed for a long time that the iPhone was going to own the market, Android has slowly picked up steam. In fact, Apple may have made a serious miscalculation in tying themselves with the AT&T network and a limited population…
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Web 2.0 for HR Call Centers
Call centers traditionally have a couple of major technologies sitting in them for HR. We will usually have some sort of knowledgebase that contains access to policies, procedures, and prompts to all sorts of questions and answers. At the same time, we should always have case management going on at the same time – the…
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Most of us are Ants
Saratoga says that large organizations have an average of 7 to 9 hierarchical levels. This means from the top to the bottom, there are 8 layers of management. I’m going to make some assumptions and say that a lot of these organizations (based on the fact that they are mostly older, more mature organizations), are…
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Meaningful Experiences in Web 2.0
I’ve complained about information overload before. As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources. Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn’t have anything to do with (your nephew’s farmville updates on Facebook), while others are truly valuable if you…