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I Can Finally Buy My Dad a Smart Phone
Read more: I Can Finally Buy My Dad a Smart PhoneJust a couple years ago, my parents came back to the US after years of being overseas missionaries. They have been in Siberia, on a random island in the Pacific, etc… and they came back to a world where cell phones were ubiquitous and information was accessible everywhere. My father is now over 70 years…
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The Top Role of Brand in Recruitment
A recent Tom Peters entry criticizes the characterization of the “war for talent” as a competitive endeavor as opposed to an internal problem. He’s right, but this is nothing new. The HR world including systematicHR has long been talking about the importance of the EVP or employer brand in attracting and retaining employees. It’s true…
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Defining Web 3.0
Anyone who had read this site for a while knows that I love nothing more than criticizing my fellow bloggers. While I have the utmost respect for many of them, when someone goes a bit too far out on a limb, they deserved to be called out for it. In this case, it’s Calacanis.com attempting…
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The Role of Change Agents in Change Management
All too often, change management is thought of as a few communications to announce a change, and the accompanying training to selected end users. This is not what change management is about. While communications and training are critical parts of change management, the organization’s ability to create behavioral change in the group of end users…
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McKinsey: How Businesses are Using Web 2.0
Respondents to a recent McKinsey survey show widespread but careful interest in this trend. Expressing satisfaction with their Internet investments so far, they say that Web 2.0 technologies are strategic and that they plan to increase these investments. But companies aren’t necessarily relying on the best-known Web 2.0 trends, such as blogs; instead, they place…
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Collaboration is Innovation
When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small, sequestered teams that vanish from sight and then return with big ideas. But the truth is most innovations are created through networks — groups of people…
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MIT Sloan’s 5 Steps to Filling the Talent Gap
Sloan’s take of the talent gap is a bit different that the one we usually talk about. Instead of the impending crisis in the U.S. from all the retiring baby boomer’s Sloan instead identifies the troubles that global companies face from not being able to develop leaders abroad, or not having the leaders domestically ready…
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Driving Innovation by Creating Culture
This entire year I’ve been talking about topics that most HR people don’t talk about. Innovation and collaboration are often thought of as the domain of the business side. It’s really the guys in production or R&D to figure out how to innovate, or so we thing. We’re dead wrong. I finally found a whitepaper…
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IBM to Buy Cognos
Right on the heels of SAP and Business Objects is the IBM and Cognos announcement. Once again and like SAP, IBM didn’t need the capabilities. They are in all probability doing this to pick up market share and taking a major competitor off the market. On November 12, 2007 IBM announced that it has signed…
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Building the Employer Brand
When we think about the employer brand, we often think about it from the recruiting perspective. A healthy employer brand does indeed make it much easier to attract potential employees, and it saves a business significant dollars in other ways as well. Great brands allow you to hire employees at a lower cost premium than…
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Driving Quality by Creating Culture
ISR (now Towers Perrin) has an interesting case study on the creation of culture. Specifically in this case study, they focus on building a culture that is focused on quality, but the principles they share could really be used to develop a culture to support any strategy whether it be quality, innovation, or anything else.…