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Rules of the Road
Read more: Rules of the RoadEvery time I go to another country, I’m amazed at how tame driving in the US actually is. People here obey lane laws, there is a fairly strict code of right of way (even if half the drivers don’t truly…
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HRIT: To Outsource or Not to Outsource… That is the Question
For some people it’s not whether to outsource, but how much? There are degrees of technology outsourcing, services and full BPO. There are a few areas where outsourcing is pretty standard. These would obviously be payroll, benefits, retirement and technology…
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HRIT and Communications Strategy Overlap
I think it’s apparent that I love talking about portal. Much of what I talk about is fairly theoretical and visionary considering not all the technologies are actually fully capable of delivering what I’d like to see, but we’re getting…
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Employee Morale and the Company Car
Do a Google search on “employee morale” and you will get “about 1,020,000 hits”. Evidently, it’s a pretty hot topic! Actually, after I went through all the million plus hits, I found that there are actually 748,639 non-duplicative hits. Still…
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What’s Your HRIT Strategy?
Do you have one? Did you know you needed one? Most larger organizations will have a well developed HRIT strategy, some mid sized organizations might have put relatively little thought into theirs preferring (unwittingly) to patch things together as needs…
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The Role of the Recruiter
A couple weeks about I wrote about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing. This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal with a question: “Will Automation Kill Recruiting?” My thought is that automation…
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Educating for Innovation
Once again, from the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25, 2006. ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007. Ideas expressed in this post may be directly attributed to the TalUnCon or might have been triggered by…
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Universum Survey of New Graduate Preferences
There’s a lot more to the Universum survey that I have time to go into or interpret including top employer brands cut into multiple categories and such. What I found most interesting was their cut on the new graduate goals…
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Employee Morale and the Boss
The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article. I’ve been trying to find it online, to no avail. I found reference to it here, on another blog, NumericLife….
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Recruiting Recruiters as a Leading Economic Indicator
There was some serious conversation at the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25. Specifically, the Talent Planning sessions focused on understanding economic indicators as it applied to workforce planning. However, a very interesting though came up…
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Analytics: Linking Silos, Linking Strategy
There was a question posed on the web a while back (I’m hard pressed to find it) asking what linkages were important to the performance of an HR organization. I’m equally hard pressed to think of an instance where integrated…