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How To Give All The Wrong Answers
Read more: How To Give All The Wrong AnswersAs per my last post,at the end of 2012, I was doing a family vacation in Taiwan. Being with family for 2 weeks is quite an expose into mannerisms that each of us have. I was particularly intrigued by my brother’s questioning of my mother. My brother would constantly ask my mother things like “why…
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HRIS Support
Computer Economics does a survey about the TCO of IT support for ERP applications. While the executive summary is almost totally useless, it’s obvious that in HR, HRIS support and HR dedicated IT support is almost always understaffed and under budgeted. While you can purchase the survey if you want (I obviously have not –…
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Complex Problem Solving and Change Management
Serious hat tip to Rob Millard Rob wrote about this over 2 years ago, but the picture still exists and I stumbled upon it months ago, and then had a second look a couple weeks ago. Rob pointed me to an intriguing picture that I’ve had to think about for a while. Rather than using…
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Stages in Talent Management Maturity
The taleo blog recently wrote a piece about the sages of maturity for talent management solutions. I actually like this 4 stage continuum, and think it applies to more than just talent management suites. STAGE 1: Companies use automated core HR systems with a group of manual and disparate human capital management (HCM) systems and…
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The Stupidity of Crowds
I have a lot of favorite bloggers. I think I’ve tipped my virtual hat over to Rob Millard quite often here, but I was going backwards in time reading some of his old posts and got to reflecting on an old post if his on the “stupidity of crowds.” We are, I am confident, soon…
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Innovation is an HR Problem
I was reading an article in a recent McKinsey Quarterly on innovation. The Quarterly was interviewing Brad Bird from Pixar, and I was surprised how often employee engagement came up. Sure, Brad talked about collaboration and all the rest, but the engagement of the employee teams surprised me. In HR, we all know that employee…
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HR’s Long Tail
I’ll be honest – I’m a bit sick of talking about the long tail. We’re all so enamored by talking about is as if it makes us all business theorists. I find that half of us don’t really know what we’re talking about when we say “the long tail” but it makes us sound smart…
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Degrees of SaaS
I’ve been quite curious over the last year at the differing definitions of multi-tenancy that are given by multiple SaaS vendors. Admittedly not being a SaaS expert, or an expert in building and housing a multi-tenant application, I’ve found the contrasts to be a bit confusing. Apparently one can call themselves a SaaS vendor, but…
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Wiki as Knoweldge Management
We all have them in our organizations. These wonderful islands of preserved knowledge: databases of content that have been donated over time for consumption by the broader corporate population. Once the dreams and hopes of management types that have dwindled down to exasperation as content has stagnated and catalogs confused. Content managers were usually “champions”…
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HR Technology Conference
There are a few conferences that I think are great. There are others I think are pretty mundane. The great ones are about content, the mundane about sales, vendors, and vendor presentation. One of the great ones is the HR Technology Conference in Chi-town annually. We’re always interested in things like the vendor shootouts, but…
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Engagement Over: Workstream-Empagio
Why Workstream wanted to be tied to Empagio in the first place never quite made sense to me. When their merger was announced several months ago, everyone knew Workstream needed some cash to continue with their R&D and sales goals. But let’s get this straight once and for all. Empagio is just the rebranded name…