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Is Big Data An HR Directive?
Read more: Is Big Data An HR Directive?I have an argument with my wife every few years. I tend to like cars with a bit more horsepower. I mean, that 1 time a year when there is a really stupid driver about to crash into you, a few extra horses comes in handy when you really need to speed away. The problem…
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Large Investments in Technology
Perhaps I’m just a nerd, but I’ve been following the developments of the Hadron Collider for a while now. In terms of physics, there have been many theories abounding, but with the lack of ability to look into the tiniest known particles within an atom and see how they re/act, it’s quite impossible to find…
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What is a Center of Expertise?
In our traditional 3-circle HR service delivery models (Ulrich model really), one of the major components is the center of excellence or center of expertise (COE). The COE has never really evolved over time, but perhaps it’s ripe to do so now. Traditional COE’s have always been benefits, compensation, recruiting, etc… However, this may not…
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Changing Talent Strategies for HR Strategies
So how many people do you have? What are their competencies? What is the total aggregated of any particular competency in your entire employee base? What is the engagement level for each of those employee populations for those competencies? Do those engagement levels change by generation, location, or line of business? Do you even care?…
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The History and Future of HR Technology
The history of HR technologies has for many years been about functionality. We have been increasing functionality levels for a couple of decades now. Even the recent robust growth of talent management applications has been about functionality. Vendors are fighting in a competition to have a “complete talent management suite” and adding functional components in…
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – HP: Managing By Walking Around
Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. He initially opens the conversation by talking about some of the many innovations HP has developed over the years. One of the early HR innovations was the idea of “managing by walking around.” Really this just meant that HR was available and visible. …
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Bill Kutik Radio Show – The Un-Siloing of HR
Bill Kutik’s excellent interview of HP had quite a few excellent insights. (sorry Bill, I’m a bit behind on listening to my iPod) One of the insights that I picked up on was the integration and matrixing of the HR organization to better provide a unified face to the HR customer and create programs that…
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Why We Don’t Need HR
Simon Baker wrote a piece that was not as inflammatory as the well known “Why We Hate HR” article a couple years ago. I found it quite entertaining and thought it deserved a response. Simon has a couple of good points, but also it’s discouraging to see his opinions from both a management and strategy…
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The Singularity
What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to self replicate, they are able to generate knowledge at a supremely faster rate than humans can, and that eventually humans become unnecessary. There are a couple…
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Turnover in the Collaboration Network
A collaboration network is made up of many different types of nodes. There are people in the organization that are subject matter experts, there are people who seem to know everyone else and everything that is going on in the organization, there are people who don’t network well at all, but the organization counts on…
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Cover-ups
Up through the Beijing Olympics, I’d been reading stories almost on a daily basis about how China was trying to present a public image of itself that was not necessarily the truth. Limited access for journalists (to protect the athletes?): Really there was concern that the political environment that surrounds the country would be exposed.…