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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Predictive Analytics
Read more: HR Technology Conference Reactions: Predictive AnalyticsI’ve always thought I was pretty good at analytics.Not being a practitioner who is sitting in the middle of data all the time, I get more time to just think about the type of analytics that it takes to really run the business. It’s been a really long time since I discounted the usefulness of…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Get To Work
You aren’t being paid to believe in the power of your dreams. ((Despair.com)) Somewhere I needed to write one of these despair.com pieces and disagree with the message. Sometimes, we are paid to believe in the power of our dreams. I’ll take myself as an example. If you read enough of systematicHR.com, you’ll have noticed…
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When the ROI Does Not Equal BS
Colin had an article that I loved about ROI. I’ve long since abandoned ROI for TCO and my compatriot Donald Glade I’m sure has similar feelings. You shave a nickel off every $5 bill that passes by, and at the end of the year you’ll have this jar full of nickels. You can definitely get…
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Three Unpalatable Truths
Rob posted his three unpalatable truths a couple weeks ago and applied them to the creation of strategy. As I thought about my definition of HR strategy as “the shaping of the workforce” Rob’s unpalatable truths hit me pretty hard. 1. THE FUTURE IS UNKNOWABLE 2. RESULTS ARE OFTEN RANDOM AND UNPREDICTABLE 3. NOT EVERYBODY…
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Some HR BPO Conventional Wisdom
With the next generation of HR BPO taking shape, companies are learning from past mistakes and employing new conventional wisdom around the process of migrating to an HR BPO solution. ((Christie, Mike and Wright, Mike. “Lessons Uncovered: The New Conventional Wisdom Around the Second Generation of HR BPO.” Hewitt Associates. Retrieved from www.hewitt.com on December…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Dysfunction
The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you. ((Despair.com)) I often see organizations who have many vendor relationships that are either marginally successful or complete failures. What these organizations never enjoy hearing is that they are partly to blame for these failed relationships. While I’ll always admit that failure is an…
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Saas versus ERP again
Links to Jim and Thomas Jim Holincheck had a write-up a week ago about how SaaS is not necessarily the answer to compete with the ERP’s for the talent management space, but that the ERP’s don’t have the right technology to leverage their newest functionality against the market need. Basically, Jim points out a very…
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Plateauing, Multiple Career Ladders, Engaging Employees
Knowledge@Wharton wrote a few months ago about a “new” phenomenon within middle manager ranks. A number of men and women in middle management are increasingly reluctant to take the next step in their careers because the corporate ladder is not as appealing as it used to be, and the price to climb it is too…
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More Changes at Hewitt
In case you missed it, HRO Today recently reported the following: “A former president of national accounts at competitor ADP, Jay C. Rising, 50, has been named president of Hewitt’s HRO business. Additionally, former acting president Julie Gordon has been named president of client and market leadership, a newly created position.” The announcement isn’t surprising…
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Employee Engagement Improves Organizational Agility
The Mckinsey Quarterly survey of barriers to agility and speed related to behavior and attitude ranked “employees lacking a sense of purpose commitment, motivation” as the number 1 factor inhibiting business speed and agility. ((Miranda, Thiel, 2007. “Improving Organizational Speed and Agility.” McKinsey Quarterly 2007 Number 1. Page 14)) With over 1500 business executives surveyed,…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Disservice
It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one… the good news is that we should run out of them in no time. ((Despair.com)) This is as true in HR as any other part of our organizations. Our recruiting processes often takes weeks if not months to find a good employee.…