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Get Over the Cloud
Read more: Get Over the CloudI think it was back in 2004 that I was writing about “DavesNextMove.com.” PeopleSoft had just gotten acquired by Oracle, and Dave Duffield was sitting around with $1B but no job. At the same time, SuccessFactors was building up some…
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I Can Finally Buy My Dad a Smart Phone
Just 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…
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Leveling the Playing Field
I’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he…
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Social Taxonomies: Tagging versus Crowd Metrics
Every now and then, I’m parked at a mall, convention center, airport, and I ask myself, “now where did I park my car? OK, so I don’t lose my car that often, but on occasion it happens. OK, I’m not…
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Using HR Analytics to WIN
So 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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Why Aren’t We Using Our Analytics?
There are everyday annoyances, and then there are just things that piss you off. Usually the things that make me really angry are when something should have been fixed, but it hasn’t been. Or something is happening too slowly where I…
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HR Social Media – A sytematicHR Case Study
I should probably congratulate the readership of this blog. For CedarCrestone’s annual technology survey, we created one of the largest populations of viable, usable submissions out of any social media outlet that the survey used. (Note that this post was…
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HRaaS
Every 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…
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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…
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Engaging Testers
Testing is one of those things that I would not only be bad at, but I would rather loath to do it. The infinite detail of what the task entails along with the endless permutations that are possible makes testing…
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Feedback and Calling BS in Social
An interesting thing happened at the recent HR Technology Conference. During Naomi Bloom’s “Master Panel,” when Mike Capone noted that ADP had the first SaaS application, before anyone else and before anyone called it SaaS, many of my compatriots on…