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Perspective and Benchmarking
Read more: Perspective and BenchmarkingIn my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must have a therapist (shrink for those of you in New York), who tells you that you have an eying disorder (if you are from Orange County,…
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An Interview With SuccessFactors
I had an opportunity to speak with Rob Bernshteyn from SuccessFactors about the direction they are heading. I’ll admit that SuccessFactors has been one of my favorite talent management vendors for a long time. I have always thought of them as having excellent functionailty and technology. Their data center and application delivery from a technology…
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The Future of HR Technology
I’m looking at a convergence of talent, portals and business intelligence. The next wave of technology is not around any specific functionalty. The next wave is going to be about integration with the rest of the business. Talent, portal and BI technology all still have long runways in terms of development and sales. In now…
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Does HR Technology Define HR Strategy?
Or does HR strategy define HR technology? The honest answer is probably both, but I’m going to argue that HR technology leads more often than not. It isn’t that strategy does not contribute to new functionality, but technology opens so many doors that the end effect is the ability to concentrate on otherwise impossible ideas.…
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Relationship Management V – Implementation
I was talking with a client this week about the implementation of an outsourced solution to payroll, HRIS and benefits administration that he would soon be going through. He has every intention of engaging third party assistance with the implementation. He’s seen things go very wrong for companies who attempted to go it alone with…
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The Future of Talent
Forget about talent management. What we need is talent development. Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group and The Human Capitalist wrote about emerging talent management software trends a few weeks ago. As part of those trends, a Yankee Group survey indicated that the growth of that HR technology industry segment would double by 2009. ((The…
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Is Talent Management Strategic?
Talent Management in and of itself is not a strategic function. Similar to core HR practices, the actual task and process isn’t strategic. One should be especially careful with Talent Management Systems (TMS). No system (TMS, HRMS, or anything else) can make you and your organization strategic. However, the philosophy you develop around the task…
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What isn’t Strategic HR?
HR Strategy is any activity to shape the workforce for the purpose of enhancing the business operational requirements. Anything can be strategic, but tasks are not when mis-applied to the wrong objectives. HR is here to support business critical functions. As “human resources” it’s our job to optimize the performance of that resource in the…
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What is Strategic HR?
You know, everyone hates the words “HR Strategy.” I hate it, you hate it, and everyone I know hates it. The problem is that very few of us can readily define it. The facts are that I’m going to define it today, but many of you are going to disagree with me. I invite you…
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Relationship Management IV – Project Management
So you’ve outsourced HRIS, or payroll, or H&W benefits administration, or applicant tracking, or any one of numerous HR functions and now your job is finished, right? Well most of you know the answer to that is no. You still have plenty to do as work through data scrubbing, conversion, or ongoing vendor relationship management. …
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Talent Management System Vendor List
Stumbled across one of the longest lists of talent management vendors I’ve seen. To be honest, I don’t know many of these. As many of you know, I don’t consider recruiting only solutions to be talent management (TMS), but a sub-class of talent acquisition (TAS). Anyway, the TAS vendors are included in the list.