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HRaaS
Read more: HRaaSEvery now and then I think I have a thought that is pure genius. This is not one of them. Instead, every now and then I have a thought that simply entertains me for longer than it should. This is definitely one of those. I have not yet figured out the appropriate pronunciation for this.…
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1 Jerk = $160K
I first heard about the “Jerk” effect during a verbal presentation at a conference. Robert Sutton apparently did a study and found that for every “jerk” in your organization, they are costing you $160K of productivity and profits each year. ((Sutton, Robert. “The No Asshole Rule.” Note – I have not read this, but was…
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The New Collaboration
So much collaboration used to happen around “water cooler conversations.” These may have been informal lunches, chats in the halls, and even chats next to the water cooler in the lunch room. However, as the workforce increasingly works from home and scheduled conference calls limit the possibilities of impromptu meetings, the opportunities to collaborate are…
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How Talent Networks Increase Profits
Getting the right people and retaining them is the start of building a great workforce. Engaging them to your brand is the next step. But the true work of optimizing the workforce is going to be in defining how the individual talents collect and relate to each other to produce value. Talent is the scarce…
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Keeping Your CEO’s Sleep Deprived
One of the favored questions going around the vendor circles the last few years is “What keeps you awake at night?” Obviously they only ask this when they are in front of VP’s of HR or C-suite executives, but the answers really do exemplify what’s going on in a person’s head. The old question of…
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Business Intelligence: Data Marts and Cubes
Continued Business Intelligence: Data Marts Life finally gets exciting. We’ve loaded our data through the ETL into an ODS. We’ve enriched the data into a usable form for aggregated, multidimensional reporting. Now we just need to create the facilities for that multidimensional reporting. This is going to be a challenge to explain in layman’s terms,…
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Business Intelligence: ODS and Enriched Data Warehouse
Continued Business Intelligence: ODS So once you’ve gotten through your first round of ETL, you’ll have to load the data somewhere (the “L” in ETL). The ODS, or operational data store, is where all the raw data gets loaded. This is basically a database that will house all of the raw data in a completely…
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Business Intelligence: Introduction and ETL
Most normal HRIS people who sit around dealing with their normal HRIS and talent management systems haven’t given much thought to business intelligence much beyond the standard reporting capabilities provided by their applications of choice. A few might have gone out and purchased new reporting tools from Cognos or Business Objects for their ad hoc…
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CedarCrestone 2007 Analytics Report
CedarCrestone recently pushed out their 2007 Analytics survey. While I’m not sure my own experience matches theirs, there are some interesting trends to at least be noted. You can find their full version of the survey here. In general, when we’re talking about HR metrics and analytics, I’m perfectly happy with a definition that includes…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since my last official conversation with them as the writer and publisher of systematicHR. Until then, Bill Kutik’s excellent analysis of his impressions from their user conference…
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Leading Top Talent
In a prior post, I noted that talent management’s role in engaging top talent was not related to the processes that are so popular in systems and magazines today. Instead, managing the most talented has more to do with changing how our managers relate to talent, and ensuring a collaborative culture that exposes talent to…