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The Art of Story
Read more: The Art of StoryWhether 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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HR isn’t a people business anymore
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 being outsourced. For example, call centers are really beginning to pick up a huge portion…
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HRO prices going down for small business
This Inc. article is a nice review of costs of HRO for smaller businesses. Although I really don’t focus on small business, it’s difficult to provide economies of scale to them when your costs are generally based on a per employee per month type of schedule. I’m also very interested in how Inc defined their…
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Sungard is going private
In a surprising move (to me) Sungard is going private with the purchase of the company by a group of investors. Why is this important to HR? There are a couple of aspects. First, they do provide some 401(k) technology services to 401(k) administrators we know. More importantly however, Sungard provides data back-up and disaster…
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Mellon HRMS Survey for 2005 – Immature HRO Industry
Again, here’s another somewhat self serving HRMS survey, but Mellon actually surveyed a couple hundred HR and finance professionals, so it looks pretty good and objective. Also, Mellon was in the middle of trying to sell their HRO business while they were doing this survey, but that doesn’t mean anything. You can download this report,…
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SHRM and NPR – just a personal pet peeve
OK – this has nothing to do with actual HR operations or technology, but it really irks me that NPR is sponsored by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). SHRM is one of these very pro-employer organizations, and it’s just another sign that NPR is being bought by big business. At one point in time,…
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How Interest rate hikes affect ROI
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 even faster in the upcoming months. As you will see in the following conversation, as…
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IT doesn’t want technology, top management does!!
In a bizzar twist, AT Kearny announced a new survey saying that IT professionals were less likely to want to be on the “bleeding edge” of technology than many business leaders. Seems that these business leaders are getting used to the idea of looking to technology to imporve the bottom line and IT departments are…
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Aon’s self serving press release and ROI
I promise I will do a post on ROI in the near future. This is a bit of a rant about consutling company studies that are publisehd in trade magazines that are clearly not an attempt at objectivity. Aon is normally seen as an HR consulting company with an HRO arm. Their VP of HRO…
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Sarbanes Oxley and a case for Outsourcing
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 the whole problem with stock options, and since I know relatively little about stock option…
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Watson Wyatt weighs in on Bush’s Social Security plan
In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions on W’s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me because I figured actuaries would weigh in on my side of this issue in claiming DB plans are alive and kicking. I haven’t read the reports…