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Nucleating agents for change
Read more: Nucleating agents for changeInteresting thing about water. You can pretty significantly influence the temperature at which water freezes simply by introducing an agent to it. But there are other times when water actually should freeze, when it is pure and below the freezing…
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Is Oracle’s Best Good Enough?
This article from Baselinemag.com takes a look at Oracle post PeopleSoft aquisition. It’s a good question as Oracle has never been good enough if we talk about HR. Their financials have always been highly rated, but for the major ERP’s,…
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What is Oracle Fusion?
Here’s my attempt to simplistically explain what Oracle Fusion is all about. I’ve noticed that most people seem to have misperceptions regarding what Oracle Fusion is all about. This is actually for good reason: When Oracle purchased PeopleSoft and thus…
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Web Services & WSDL Definitions
In a brief departure from my once a day posts, I wanted to point out a couple of nice pieces on WSDL over that the HR-XML blog. WSDL part 1: A starting point for web serives WSDL part 2: Patterns…
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Leadership Intro – Three Ways of Great Leaders
A few months ago, Fast Company pushed out this article on leadership. I’m going to follow this with my thoughts and examples from several interviews that Harvard also published in the last year. Just so you know, the Fast Company…
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Another Doomsday Prediction for Talent
It’s possible that I’ve been drilling this topic too much for too long, but it seems the market is really starting to take notice. Perhaps that means it’s time for me to start talking about something else. Here’s a last…
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Workstream Product Enhancements
The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 4
A couple of days ago I mentioned that HR organization design was a factor in overall business scalability, flexibility and agility. As the HR industry has started to move towards shared services and HRO (ok, started may be a mischaracterization…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 3
So what do flexibility and agility mean in an HR technology discussion? These two ideas may not always be in perfect synchronization as flexibility sometimes means customization and agility sometimes means the lack thereof. While flexibility does not necessarily mean…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 2
Are these business requirements or technology requirements? Actually, they are both and indeed they are quite interconnected. Scalability from the technology side feeds scalability from the business side and the same can be said for flexibility and agility. So while…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 1
Why? This is simply a critical topic in HR technology as “strategy” transforms into true business support. The modern HR department and it’s HR technology must be able to support these three conditions to be effective in today’s world. Businesses…