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Systems Deployment for the 99%
Read more: Systems Deployment for the 99%Believe it or not, when it comes to personal technology, I’m not in the 1%. Come to think of it, I’m pretty darn sure I’m not in any 1%, but that’s not quite the point. I finally got a new…
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Lawson – Moving Core HR to The Talent Suite
Lawson’s introduction of their new Strategic HCM product heads into an interesting direction. I got the change to talk to Larry Dunivan at the Lawson CUE conference and also to see the product briefly. While I’ll admit that I’m never…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 2
Your technology project is completed. Your go live date is imminent. You have committed serious time and effort to changing your processes, and making sure they get implemented in your new technology appropriately. Your delivery method is changing and people…
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Why Technology Projects Fail 1
You take on a project to change something in your organization. If you’re reading this, often you’ll be implementing some sort of technology. Why do projects fail? Often, it’s because there is no change in processes prior to implementing technology….
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Competencies are the Resource, Not Humans
Human Resources. Are we? I’d suggest that we’re not. The building is a resource. The forklift too. You and I? I think not. We’re operators of resources. My theory is not that we are the resource, but we have the…
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On Blackberry Use and Bad Governance
Not to offend anyone in particular, but I’ve noticed a trend among companies I visit: Organizations where (under the table) blackberry use during meetings runs rampant tend to have really bad governance models. Conversely, organizations where people are engaged and…
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A Thumbs Up for Video Resumes
The following was written by Colleen Aylward, Founder of InterviewStudio.com as a rebuttal to my unapologetically negative rant on video resumes. Every opinion has a counter and deserves to be heard. Therefore, read the pro’s on video resumes below and…
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Gen Y’s Entitlement Employment
What do we do with these kids? They are high maintenance, operate in a different model, and often leave our organizations before we get much value out of them. I myself exited college in a rather severe economic downturn. Waiting…
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Making HR Indispensable
When we talk about employee engagement, we’re talking about the employee’s willingness to work an additional discretionary period of time to complete a unit of work. This basically means the employee is committed to the organization, the project, the job,…
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HR as Sales
I often think that senior HR practitioners don’t think about sales as often as they should. Too much of the time, HR thinks that their performance in the delivery of services is enough. Even if those services are the delivery…
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Developing Change Agents
When in any project, making sure that change management occurs with the proper focus on strategy, effective communications, and facilitation of behavioral change, is possibly the most critical task outside of creating a good governance process. Great behavioral change is…