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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 phone after sitting around on my last phone for 2 years – it was ancient. …
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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 really negative when I see new product (hey – it should be good if it’s…
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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 will need to use the new processes, portals, and workflows starting tomorrow. Suddenly you realize…
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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. After all, why would you implement technology to change your underlying delivery model, but not…
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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 KSA’s (in old school terms) that can be resources. In today’s terms, I think we’re…
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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 participate in meetings they attend tend to have good governance models. This is not to…
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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 decide for yourself if there is a place in recruiting for them. And of course,…
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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 5 months before I scored a commission only job, there really wasn’t much around for…
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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, or the team – and hopefully a combination to more than one of those. When…
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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 of strategic reporting (such as detailed workforce analytics helping to chart the future direction of…
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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 best facilitated with a carefully selected group of change agents that are artfully instructed in…