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A Star Trek User Experience
Read more: A Star Trek User ExperienceOne of my favorite all time scenes in movies is in Star Trek 4 (They Voyage Home). Scotty and McCoy are hunting a local professor to get some plexy glass, and strike a deal to get it for free. The deal? Give the professor the chemical formula for “transparent aluminum.” In order to do this,…
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Why Can’t We Implement Succession?
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
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
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
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
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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Enterprise Digital Interactions
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
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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Enterprise Web 2.0 and Personal Brands
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
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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Time to Upgrade
Today I got the following message on my browser: Unfortunately your web-browser is from 2001, which is really, really old in web years. If you would take a moment to upgrade you will find the web has a lot more to offer. First of all, let me point out that this was not actually my…