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HR Technology Conference – Calling All Slackers (like me!)
Read more: HR Technology Conference – Calling All Slackers (like me!)I’m a big fan of Jeopardy! and tend to watch when I get a chance to. I was distraught a few years ago when Ken Jennings lost to Watson, the IBM supercomputer. I personally felt like there was no chance for Ken to win against this highly quantitative, calculating machine unless they gave Watson a…
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M&A – Whose System Wins?
I must say that sometimes M&A transitions are a pain in the *** for HR and HRIT practitioners. It’s quite rare in my experience that a merger will be a pure 50/50%, more often than not one of the merger partners is getting a tiny fraction more than 50% and so can govern the decisions…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – Karen Beaman Follow-up
Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to say that you know them from reading the blog as they are obviously industry giants.…
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Recruiting
A few days ago, my fellow compatriot Jason Corsello wrote about Gartner’s new magic quadrant. I’ve actually looked upon the Gartner magic quadrants with some disdain in the last few years, not because of any perceived lack of validity, thoroughness or any other concern with the approach to analysis that Jim Holincheck does, but more…
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The Bill Kutik Radio Show: Karen Beaman
Those of you how have been reading this blog for a while are familiar with both Bill Kutik and Karen Beaman as I refer to both of them often. In fact, It’s probably a bit of conceit for me to say that you know them from reading the blog as they are obviously industry giants.…
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Kaizen Bursts
I’ve been through a lot of process mapping sessions in my life. I’ve had the good opportunity to lead many, and also the opportunity to sit in and observe. It always surprises me how often the current state processes are mapped, and then people go straight into the future state process mapping without real reflection. …
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Survey Design 101 – Part 1: What to Ask and How
Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. It’s time for that annual “all-hands” annual employee survey! You’re charged with going to your employees and asking “how are we (as a company) doing?” Putting together a set of survey questions may seem fairly intuitive – and it is… for the most part. However, there are at least…
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Cycling Technology: GPS
Yeah, believe it or not, I have a GPS on my bike. It’s even a Garmin. With a push of a button I can go to a screen that either shows me how fast I’m going and what my heart rate is, or I can see a little map with direction arrows and everything. I…
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Makings of a Consultant
I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter they are tackling. It’s helpful of course, but it’s actually not the core competency for consulting. First, I’m a huge advocate of liberal arts college educations. …
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Cycling Technology: Power Meters
Cycling is an easy sport to figure out from a measurement perspective. Speed is a function of power output and weight (all other things held constant). So if you’re going uphill, the number of watts you generate as a factor of your weight (you + the bike) will determine your speed. The lighter you are…
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Questions
As a consultant, I’m often tasked not only with putting an approach together to solve a problem, but actually identifying the problem altogether. It always amazes me that I’ll go in to do a project that has already been sold, and the client is tackling the wrong problem, or at least putting projects in the…