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Absurdity (Parental Advisory)
Read more: Absurdity (Parental Advisory)I love San Francisco. It’s a great city to live in, with lots of food, plenty to do, and great places to ride a bike. It also happens to be quite the interesting place for all sorts of reasons. I could point to the Golden Gate Park, numerous museums, beautiful hills and neighborhoods – but…
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Over Managing Top Talent
So who is your top talent? Basically it’s those few people who feel like they don’t really work all that hard to out produce 95% of your workforce. That’s of course a simple definition, but this group of people are not just more efficient at what they do, they are much more effective. It’s because…
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Why Payroll Hates HR
Generally, I find that any time payroll reports to Finance and not HR, there is a pretty strained relationship. After all, these are organizations that work closely together because of their relationship with the employee data, but these are organizations that have a very different focus for their core jobs. HR likes to be service…
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Middle Market HRO Convergence
We’ve long talked about the large HRO organizations trying to go after the middle market. After all, how many companies out there can afford a 10 year contract valued at $500M? With large HRO contracts closing in on 200 contracts, there isn’t nearly as much high end opportunity left out there, but there’s no question…
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The Self Service Experience
Every vendor you ever meet will tell you how much time and money your organization will save by implementing self service tools and workflow automation. It’s definitely true that the initiative to go paperless has shifted work, but whether or not it has reduced work is another question completely. I’d like to theorize that overall,…
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Shifting from Higher Education to the Workplace
So you get in college these days, and in addition to the great classroom experiences, you have great on-line discussion tools where you can post questions and solve problems with other classmates. You turn in all of your assignments on-line and have valuable feedback from your professor through technology. It’s assumed that you’ll bring your…
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Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking
Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago. People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and then often left the organization leaving little trace of the knowledge they developed and didn’t share effectively. But knowledge management didn’t really take off as a…
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Wyatt Gets into Talent Software
Mercer once had a benefits administration offering that they ended up selling to ADP. Then they partnered with SynHRgy (spelling?) to get into HRO. That didn’t pan out so well either. Towers Perrin has a partnership with Excellerate HRO (EDS) in the HRO space. Hewitt went full bore into HRO and that’s been a mixed…
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Does Web 2.0 Suck?
Michael thinks web 2.0 sucks. Actually, he doesn’t, he’s the biggest user of new technologies I know. But enterprise users have been slow to adopt the technology. I talked about capturing collaboration networks in HR using web 2.0 technologies, but take a look at Sean Rehder’s excellent rebuttal in the comments section. There are good…
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How to Lie With Analytics
I was listening to a presentation being given by a timekeeping vendor. Within the demonstration, a report was run providing a detail of when people decided to take sick days, and the report stated that the large majority of sick days were taken on Mondays and Fridays. Our brilliant analyst noted that there was a…
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HR Success in 100 Days
Mercer has a nice little write-up about your first 100 days as the CHRO of an organization. Here are five things Mercer says your should be thinking about. 1. Connect the goals of the HR function to the goals of the business. By starting with the broad business challenges and strategy, you’ll convey to senior…