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It’s Time For the CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey
Read more: It’s Time For the CedarCrestone HR Technology SurveyIt’s that time of year again. The IHRIM conference is going on this week (no I’m not there), and the CedarCrestone HR Technology Survey is in full swing. I publicize this particular survey every year for a couple of reasons. I gain the most insight from CedarCrestone’s survey about HR Technology than any other. This…
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Cycling Technology: Gears
There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing. In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes. Today, I still ride what is called a 10 speed, but it’s actually 20 if you directly compare it with the 10 speeds of the 1980’s. As metallurgy has advanced, cycling manufacturers…
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Top 100 Influencers: The Technologist
Thanks to all my readers, collaborators and mentors. I made John Sumser’s list for the top 100 Influencers in HR.
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Leadership Competency Design – Five most common mistakes
Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Designing and using a set of reliable and valid leadership competencies is critical for organizations seeking to go from point A to point B. Leadership competencies are essentially an ideal profile specifying the types of skills, knowledges, and behavioral traits you want your leaders to possess, and therefore, exhibit. …
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Cycling Technology: Bike Frame Materials
Karen Beaman wrote a guest post somewhere on the technology of tennis. I’ve occasionally written about cycling here, but thought I’d go into more detail on the technology of cycling and its impacts on performance. Cycling is actually one of the sports where in its face, technology advancements seem to be shunned. After all, we…
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Normative Data for Employee Surveys – Worth the Spend?
Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. As a child, whenever I would screw up, my mother always said, “Why can’t you be more like Billy?” Billy was a straight-A student who excelled in every sport with which he was involved – an all-around “wunderkind” who could do no wrong. Needless to say, I didn’t like…
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Unbundling HR
Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems that we’ve been seeing for many years now. She is exactly right, that often times the unbundling of HR applications away from a central ERP system provides for more agile HR service delivery. Traditional ERP systems have not been growing at the…
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What is a portal?
We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self service and reporting tools portals, even though most of us don’t really know what a portal is or does. Well, intuitively we do, a portal is…
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Translating HR Data Elements globally
Global HR data is tough. Often times when we’re thinking about implementing a global core HR system, or a global data warehouse, we implement these systems according to a U.S. centric view of the world. (I’ll note here that I once worked with a U.K. based company that looked at their core HR system with…
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Competencies versus Critical Experiences
We’ve been talking about competencies for a while. Yeah, I know what they are, I know how they get implemented into a talent system, and I even know how they are integrated into critical talent processes. But you know what… I still don’t get it. We talk about competencies, but when we really get down…
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Addicting HR
Can you make your managers addicted to HR? Can you make them care about processes and policies and procedures? Do they really care about the employee engagement score? Personally, I think we can, but I’m not sure we know how to do it yet. Three and five years ago, we all saw the demos of…