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Using HR Analytics to WIN
Read more: Using HR Analytics to WINSo I have to admit it’s hard to come off the election and not write about this. This election was defined by some pretty deep population analysis, incredible forecasting and pretty significant actions to try to address the most important…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 8
Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes. I heard a rumor that I’ll leave as a rumor that when Microsoft Windows was put into general release it had over 60K known and documented bugs. 60K…
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Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
There are two types of labor shortages currently under examination. The first is a shortage in the current labor supply, and then there’s the much feared future labor supply that is projected as the large population of Baby Boomers retire…
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Does Talent Management Create Culture?
Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com that HR shape a company’s culture by finding and developing talent. I’m having a hard time buying into that. My answer to the question “does talent management create culture?” is simply: “no.” In reality, creating…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 7
Use visual control so no problems are unhidden. One of the best modern tools we have is the data warehouse and the dashboard. We have totally current metrics available to any of us, if we would just implement the technology. …
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Video iPods in Training
“Training is now going to employees rather than the other way around.” ((Gronstedt, Anders. June 2007. “Employees Get and Earful.” HBR June 2007, Pg 26)) A few months ago I posted some podcast ideas that you could use in HR. …
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Social Media Best Practice #1
I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most important. However, I’m taking it that way and I haven’t even…
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The Long Awaited Taleo Performance
Last week Taleo announced their long awaited performance management module. I’ve been waiting for their talent management release for about a year since systemaciHR first heard about it. I’ve always thought they would be late to the game, and even…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 6
Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous process improvement and employee empowerment. There’s a quote in here that I love, actually written by Henry Ford in 1926. “Today’s standardization… is the necessary foundation on which tomorrow’s improvement will be based….
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Lawson Update
I haven’t felt the need to write about Lawson in quite some time. Not because they are not a major player, or that they don’t have a decent mix of technology. The truth of the matter is that Oracle and…
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How Web 2.0 Will Boost Productivity
The introduction of consumer driven Web 2.0 technologies into businesses is set to usher in a phase of productivity growth that could surpass that of the late 1990’s boom, says John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco Systems. “We…