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Augmented Reality Onboarding
Read more: Augmented Reality OnboardingSo I’m looking for a restaurant. I bring up my phone, hold it up in front of me, and scan what’s around. It tells me that 1.2 miles over that way there is a Thai place that is rated week, or 0.65 miles the other way there is a BBQ place that everyone loves. I…
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The Future of Learning
Those of you who read this blog often know that I’m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy. I’m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day entering my daily food and caloric intake into my smart phone, I thought how wonderful it would be if I could record my daily learning experiences…
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Style and Strategy: Nadal versus Federer
I love tennis. I prefer to watch it than to play as I’m not really very good, and I seem to have a bum shoulder. Each year, my wife and I record the coverage of every grand slam, and to be honest, we have missed the once omni-presence of Rafael Nadal in all the finals. …
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Employee Portal Experience Fundamentals
Portal redesign is fun these days. Creating widgets from our talent management systems and plugging in cool looking, drillable analytics from the business intelligence engine (also widgetized) is pretty cool. The technology advances in the last few years that allow you to take a standard portal and natively configure and insert your widgets (portlets, pagelets,…
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The “Other”
Why can’t we get along with payroll? What makes them so different? It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance. There always seems to be some friction. Often we like to think that they are just “different” people. HR people are strategic and nurturing and…
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Business Intelligence and Data Dispersion
Data Encryption with business intelligence and reports has always been a problem. Users are constantly requesting reports, and once data is in someone’s hands, it’s almost impossible to control data dissemination and what I’ll call data diaspora. One must admit, especially in large organizations, that trying to put controls from a procedural perspective is not…
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Immediacy without Details
I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all the latest stuff. But I find myself at odds with some of the theory and philosophy. There seems to be an emerging sense of immediacy and…
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Real Life is Analog
Not Digital. We all love digital. It makes our lives easier and faster. But I’m not sure we all have an appropriate understanding of what digital and analog really mean. The fact of the matter is that we don’t live in a digital world. Our world is purely analog. We just have digital processes that…
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CedarCrestone’s HR Systems Survey
It’s that time of year again, for what Bill Kutik of the HR Technology Conference calls “the most thorough, highly respected and useful survey on technology usage in HR.” Each year, I send out a link to the readers of systematicHR to fill out this thing. The more respondents, the better the insights the entire…
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Gaming: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
I’ve been writing a lot about gaming and being an advocate for the learning activities that it promotes. In many cases and for many games, there is active online collaboration, leadership, decision-making, team building, and project management going on. The participants don’t necessarily know it’s happening, but it is. However, while the players may be…
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Inspiration or Engagement?
I’ve been away for a little while. No, I have not been on vacation, or away from the country. I’ve just not been writing. I don’t know if other bloggers have this problem, but I don’t bother writing if I’m not “inspired.” To be honest, I’ve faced this a few times in my career, and…