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Strategy without Technology is Stupid
Read more: Strategy without Technology is StupidAs of about 2003, I don’t think I could live my life without my devices. Back then it was the blackberry and laptop. Now it’s my Android phone, iPad and laptop. If I lose my phone, I’m basically dead in…
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HR Service Delivery: Question 3
Are there any customers for whom support is extraordinarily high or low? Let’s face it, sometimes the support costs for a group of people catches you off guard. When there is more support required than you expected, you know how…
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HR Service Delivery: Question 2
Which of our customers need vastly more service than others? Sometimes there will be a specific business unit or group of individuals (salespeople or executives for example) who simply require more time and attention. The first question is obviously to…
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HR Service Delivery: Question 1
What follows is literally 3 weeks of questions around HR service delivery. These are questions that we can ask ourselves that can help diagnose porblems, solutions and opportunities. Hope you enjoy. ho uses our services and technology in ways we…
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SystematicHR’s Thoughts for 2008
I suppose that I do need to put together a list of things I’m especially interested in this year. Many of these are already trends. Some of these will never be, but are things perhaps only I am interested in….
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Web 2.0: Ajax versus Adobe Flex
As we get more Web 2.0 applications in the HR arena, perhaps it deserves a short explanation of what some of the competing technologies are. When we’ve talked about Web 2.0, (again, defining it as the delivery of a rich…
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Rumors and News in the HR Technology Space
So I took a brief 3 week pause from writing in December and quite a bit happened. Here is a brief summary of the news: December 4: Reuters reported a rumor that Microsoft was looking at a possible acquisition of…
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SuccessFactors ULTRA
Out comes a new release of SuccessFactors popular talent management system. My general opinion is that the leading talent management systems are all playing on a fairly level playing field. They are all pretty well integrated, they all have good…
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Making Your Average Employee Your Best Employee
The world is made up of C players – those where are totally average in performance. Let’s face it, most of us have to be C players, and your organization will always be made up of them. However, even though…
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How To Coach New Managers
I think it was Pat Riley (basketball coach) who once said that the best performers are not usually the best coaches. They often don’t understand why it’s so hard for everyone else to be a top performer when it came…
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Failing your Employees Through Mentoring
Harvard Business Review’s article “The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome” places the blame on failed mentorships squarely in the hands of the mentor, not the mentee. You start with a positive relationship. Something—a missed deadline, a lost client—makes you question the employee’s performance….