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Big Data For HR & Recruiting: 2 Use Cases
Read more: Big Data For HR & Recruiting: 2 Use CasesForget about Google. One of the world’s favorite sites has got to be LMGTFY.com. “Let me google that for you.” With the wondrous world of the internet and ubiquitous information, ubiquitous access through our mobile devices, and ubiquitous connectivity, whenever someone asks a dumb question in email, you get to just send them back a…
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When Things Go Wrong
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
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
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
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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Go to the HR Technology Conference
Really. You guys know that I don’t usually pitch anything. But I have pitched this show a few times. It really is probably the largest gathering of HR people outside of the SHRM conference. But you never hear people come back from the SHRM conference talking excitedly about… well, anything really. Some people like the…
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Leadership: The Elusive Skill
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…
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Lack of Use
It’s been a while since I was on a bike. All for good reasons, I haven’t actually been home in about 3 weeks. I mean, you do need to have a bike available to you and decent roads to go for a ride. I’m not sure that 3 weeks in NYC qualify. First, I’m afraid…
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Yelp and the Future of BI Search
I’m sitting (almost) next to a guy who works for Yelp. He just did a pretty interesting tutorial to the person in the middle seat ((great seat buddies for once – how often does that happen?)) about some interesting features in Yelp. I at least didn’t know about some of these, but the most interesting…
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What’s Next?
Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world. After all, what would we have done if SoftScape had not coined the term “Talent Management”? (I’m pretty sure it was them, but…
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Implementing Smart Codes
So you’re going to implement new job codes, or department codes, or whatever. Someone in the organization has a great idea: “let’s make the codes smart!” I mean, what better idea to manage the information within the code than to implant attributes within the code itself. So you go down the road: Job category will…