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Cedar Crestone HR Technology Survey: Create a Winning HR Function
Read more: Cedar Crestone HR Technology Survey: Create a Winning HR FunctionAll too often, I get an industry report to read and end up saying to my colleagues, “wow this is crap.” Case in point, at the end of 2012, I got a widely read industry report that rated a halfway decent HCM provider’s payroll engine to be better than one of the major payroll outsourcers. …
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Thoughts on HR Strategy
We’d all like to believe that we think strategically. But the reality suggests that nobody else believes that about us. Take a couple of cases. First, if a large acquisition is happening in your organization, how much does HR collaborate in the decision making process? Is HR simply there to evaluate the workforce, or does…
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Is The Cornerstone of HR Job or Performance?
HR is certainly changing. The trend over the last few years is that we are organizations focused on the strategic (over the administrative). This has manifested itself in numerous redesigns of the HR function for shared services, HRO/BPO, and the HR Business Partner. This has also included a shift of thinking as we are all…
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An Update with Sum Total
I’ll admit. It caught me completely off guard to find out that the major learning vendors (Saba and Sum Total) have been offering talent management systems for the better part of a year (or longer). I’ve been advocating this for some time as I’ll explain below, but they have been flying under the radar for…
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Another Interview with SuccessFactors
It’s always good to talk to SuccessFactors. After all, like Kleenex and tissue paper, SuccessFactors has almost locked themselves and the brand most affiliated with talent management software. There is more hype than ever around talent management and implementations, but in the recent HR Technology show in Chicago, SuccessFactors seemed to lag in the hype…
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WorkStream 7.0 Demo
I always like it when I get to see product. While I often do as part of my normal job, I don’t overlap meaning I won’t write about things I see when consulting for a client. In the upcoming months however, quite a few vendors are scheduling demos for me privately, and giving me a…
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Give Me A “Sexy” UI Any Day
Jason and I might have to disagree on this one. Can we please stop saying “…and the user interface is sexy”! User interfaces should not be “sexy” nor are they! User interfaces should be clean and simple, presenting only the information necessary for the task at hand. The user interface should be designed with the…
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Evil HR on Social Networking
Evil HR being the well know Evil HR Lady of course. She and I share something in common – we work for prominent organizations, write a blog, and are anonymous about it. When it comes to social networking and the roles HR plays, there are 2 types of social networking to really consider – the…
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Thumbs Down for Video Resumes
YourHRGuy.com wrote about video resumes recently, casting an overall thumbs down for them. Usually I’m the advocate of technology and doing/thinking about things differently. In this case, I’m going to go with everyone else and pronounce this one to be a bad idea. Many people have seemed to use tired arguments about phone/in-person interviews, resume…
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Making a Case for Service Oriented Architecture
BEA (owners of WebLogic and as of the writing of this, going through a takeover bid from Oracle), sponsored a survey from GCR (formerly Gartner Custom Research) around the rational for implementing SOA in global organizations. The results were generally on track with what I’d expect. Over three quarters of respondents expect SOA to reduce…
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Knowledge Infusion’s Talent Survey
KI’s newest survey around talent presents some salient findings that we should all find quite obvious, but we all seem to ignore anyway. In the first paragraph below, Jason Corsello states that HR people still don’t know how to present a business case. Perhaps it is that HR people don’t know how to speak “Finance”…