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The Technology Does Not Sell
Read more: The Technology Does Not SellYears ago, there is a motorola executive was speaking to a group of students. He asks the students to answer a couple of simple questions, “who among you owns a motorola cell phone?”. A small group of students raise their hands. He continues to as them, “who among you own a Nokia cell phone?”. The…
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HR Technology, Branding and Environmentalism
Going where I never thought I’d go… But the HRIQ blog wrote this page about the amount of waste generated by a workplace in a single year. Apparently the average worker can throw away ONE QUARTER OF A TONNE OF MATERIALS PER YEAR, according to Eco Office! They equate this to having depth of up…
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RSS in HR
I was reading “Branding the Feed” in Business 2.0 Magazine ((Heilemann, John, July 2006. “Branding the Feed.” Business 2.0, Volume 7, Number 6. Page 42.)) about Dick Costolo’s Feedburner strategy (If you read this site through a feed, it’s coming through feedburner). Not a new thought, but it occurs to me that RSS (Real Simple…
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HR Function Commoditization – The Future of HR
57 years ago ADP commoditized payroll. You have 100 earnings codes, a specific set of parameters each code can have, and if you want to go outside those parameters, you can’t. Many see this as a bad thing, but this is actually extremely liberating. Rather than taking each HR function and process and figuring out…
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TCO in the Context of Risk
Many regular readers of SystematicHR know that I conducted a Total Cost of Ownership study to determine the cost of benefits administration. The results were released last December. Double Dubs commented on it here, and it is how I originally came to find his great blog. Generally, TCO is a means at getting at hidden…
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Stopping the Talent Drain
This site has many recurring themes, but here are 2 of the most popular: There’s a talent drain and it’s only getting worse. Compensation is no way to retain your highest performers. Obviously I was struck when I read “Stopping the Talent Drain” in Business 2.0 magazine. ((Pfeffer, Jeffrey, July 2006. “Stopping the Talent Drain.”…
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PS vs SAP: Part 2
In the last entry I wrote “that the only HR departments that go on SAP are the ones that are forced to do so by their CEO.” While there’s some truth to this, I’ve also written in the past that if I were a CIO, I’d go out and buy Oracle financials, PeopleSoft HR, SAP…
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PS vs SAP: Part 1
There are lots of snobs out there: those that won’t outsource to anyone but ADP, those that think they are superior because they work in compensation, and consultants who think their way is better before they even consult. The snobbery elite is probably topped by a distinguished set of software users: PeopleSoft snobs. The life…
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The True Costs of Unionization
In an attempt to be apolitical (which is truly difficult for me), I was reading a New York Times article about United mechanics entering into a training program after layoffs. The success rate of returning those mechanics was dismal if the measurment was to get them into a job with similar pay. The success factor…
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Relationship Management – Measuring Satisfaction
How do you know when an outsourcing initiative has been successful? At what point can you sit back, look at all that has been done and actually congratulate yourselves on a successful implementation, transition and effective and stable ongoing processing environment. I think back to the system person I dealt with on a 401(k) conversion…
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The Industry Radar
Along with Michal Specht’s hrblogs.org site, there’s another new HR aggregator that is doing an incredible job bringing quality content to the masses called the Industry Radar. (I’m big on alternatives to SHRM and other mainstream sites). The site has 4 benefit radars, but also 4 HR radars. Among these are: Talent Management Outsourcing Technology…