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Merge, Outsource, Re-merge
Read more: Merge, Outsource, Re-mergeImagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. While you’re at it, you decide to put new walls up – perhaps a new powder room where…
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Implementation Critical Success factors
Eric Kimberling recently wrote about increasing success factors in an ERP implementation ((Thanks to the Oracle Apps Blog for pointing this one out.)) Each section has Eric’s personal commentary, but here’s the list without it. Link to his article for the full version please. Focus on business processes and requirements first. Focus on achieving a…
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Excellerate HRO’s First Win
And it’s a big one. I have no idea what the net value of this deal is, but rumors around the blogosphere have been circulating for a couple months that the announcement was coming. Here it is.
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Responsibility – Part 3
Im realizing that I never actually defined why I called this series “responsibility.” Mostly, it was because we in HR have a responsibility to ensure that certain practices maintain the HR and employer brand. So far, we’ve talked about values and what happens when leadership hypocrasy sets in, and in part 2, about the shared…
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Responsibility – Part 2
How does your HR organization take responsibility for nurturing your high potentials? Launch a formal, high-level succession-planning conference for senior executives facilitated by corporate HR and outside experts; outline the leadership development process; and cascade it through the company. Create leadership development programs that fill holes in your company’s talent portfolio to ensure a deep…
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Responsibility – Part 1
Charismatic leaders create an envorinment in which employees want to follow a vision or idea that has been stated. A goal of most leaders is to create the type of enviironment where employees are engaged in that mission and vision of the company. However, charismatic leaders can turn off employees in the long run, and…
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Leadership part 1 – Art Weinbach
Prior Posts: Leadership Intro Correction from the last post. These interviews I’m referencing are not from HBS – they’re from Wharton. I’m starting this series with an interview with Art Weinbach, the current CEO of Automatic Data Processing. Based in Roseland, N.J., ADP has more than 42,000 employees and 550,000 clients in the United States,…
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Gautam Ghosh – The new HR professional?
Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I’ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I’m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR can influence a company’s bottom line, especially in the knowledge economy, where talent is a…
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RSS SOA and the Future of HR Technology
When my opinion is solicited, I give it freely. But first I should not there is a synopsis of the discussion as it stands today at the bottom of this post. Posts in this discussion: Enterprise RSS, Web 2.0 and HR by Thomas Otter When Will HR Catch Onto the Wave? by Michael Specht In…
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Who You Are – sHR Survey Results
In February I had a reader survey available which many of you answered. I thought I’d share some of the results from that survey: Exactly 50% of you read new posts on systematicHR every day. Many more of you visit multiple times each week. Not surprisingly, the topics of most interest are HR strategy and…
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Social Security Reform
Donald Glade of Sourcing Analytics writes a great opinion on Social Security reform here. Just thought I’d point it out.