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The Butterfly Effect
Read more: The Butterfly EffectIn 1972, Edward Lorenz wrote a paper called “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?” In this paper, the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, a minute, very low mass, and quite insignificant action, represents a small initial and remote condition that can lead to major downstream…
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Improving the quality of Communications – Part 2 of 2
View part 1 here. Jason wrote this post about The Manager’s Role in PerformanceCorsello, Jason, December 19, 2005. “The Manager’s Role in Performance.” Retrieved from http://jasoncorsello.blogs.com on December 19, 2005. a couple days ago. Seemed to fit into this topic very well and it’s his fault this turned into a 2 day post. In it…
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Improving the quality of Communications – Part 1 of 2
Employee Engagement at 14% Worldwide Actually, I’ll place a healthy bet that all bloggers and almost all blog readers are highly engaged. Let’s face it, for you to search out pages like this one instead of SHRM.com takes some effort. But on to the point: Towers Perrin recently completed what is arguably the broadest survey…
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Mergers and 20 dumb things…
Listen, I can go off topic sometimes, right? Gautam’s post on Tom Peter’s 20 dumbest business practices reminded me of something else I read recently: TP: Mergers of Decrepit Monsters! GG: Merging for the heck of it! SA: More Often Than Not, Massive Galaxies Form by Mergers New data seem to show that galaxies collide…
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ADP’s On-Demand HRMS Direction
I saw this press release and got to thinking about ADP’s direction with HRMS. Why do I keep talking about ADP and why are they important? Being the 10,000 lb. gorilla in the payroll market, they are actually also one of the huge players in the core HRMS market as well. They have more HRMS…
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TAS Vendor Scorecard
Well, I’ve done talent management scorecards a few times, but never talent acquisition. This is not really a scorecard or vendor functionality comparison. Here are my top 4 vendors and a few notes about them. This is not a review of functionality, just a purely subjective view on who I like and why. Taleo and…
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TMS (non) fiancials
I seem to have made the quite unwise statement that I would attempt to evaluate the financials of several TMS vendors. Realizing now that I should take that statement back (entirely possible with just a quick stroke of the keyboard) and deny the whole thing, I submit the following with a few disclaimers (on top…
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Technology, Automation, and Talent Case Studies
I found this article in CFO Magazine’s online Fall 2005 issue. The full text is quite long and located here. It is a well written piece by Scott Leibs from September 15, 2005. Anything in block quotes below is a direct excerpt. There are so many good examples of everything we’ve been discussion over the…
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CFO Magazine Survey on Employee Performance
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I found this article at CFO.com on employee productivity. CFO Staff, September 15, 2005. “Our Assets, Ourselves,” CFO.com. Retrieved December 8, 2005 from CFO.com. First of all, many of the 170 CFO’s surveyed came from “small companies.” Second of all, it’s obvious that what CFO’s/finance see as important HCM…
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Has Oracle Forgotten About the HR Suite?
Jason posted the same topic on SAP. Corsello, Jason, December 12, 2005. “Has SAP Forgotten About HR?” The Human Capitalist. Retrieved December 12, 2005 from http://jasoncorsello.blogs.com. If anyone was at Oracle World a few months ago, you’ll recall seeing all the irritated HR people. Why you ask? The HR track really didn’t exist unti lthe…
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Technology’s role in performance management
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine had this article about technology’s role in performance management. I thought it a bit obtuse, but I’ll expand on my ideas below. I thought we were going to read about EPS systems and deployment. Instead the article was about LMS and how to deploy learning. I didn’t really get the tie…