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Differentiation in SaaS
Read more: Differentiation in SaaSA while back, I was an SC for a large vendor organization. It was a lot of fun highlighting the great stuff in my applications (actually – those were the fun parts). But our jobs were to help find solutions…
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Talent Management searches are up
This is actually a very poor polling technique, but it does at least show that companies are thinking about talent management. Unfortunately, I have no idea what people mean when they say talent management. To me, TM is a complete…
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KPMG does not know the difference between DB and DC?
Well, we all know there is a HUGE difference between accountants and actuaries. (Do I need to tell any actuary jokes?) But this press release is a rather harsh example of why a good HR consulting firm lime Mercer, Towers…
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Generation gap and learning
I was sitting at my brother and sister-in-law’s house last night and the conversation turned to their teenage son. He was sitting in front of the computer playing some shoot and kill video game with some friends on-line. Remembering the…
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Hyperion BI certifies on SAP Netweaver
Recently I wrote about BI software and forgot to put in Hyperion. Here’s a press release from Hyperion and their SAP partnership. Hyperion’s new center of excellence located at the SAP headquarters will allow them to provide SAP specific development…
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State of the Industry – Portal
When I talk about portals, I’m talking about an HR portal – not the enterprise portal. Portal is not synonymous with employee and manager self service – portals indicate another level of technology. Here’s a good portal explanation from a…
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The candidate experience
You know – sometimes I talk so much about the technology of how things work, that I feel like I’m giving the wrong imprssion of what’s actually important. Andrew makes a nice point regarding the candidate experience here. Granted my…
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State of the Industry – HRMS
As a consumer organization, this is just a terrible time to be on the market for an HRMS system. There is a huge void in the mid-range that PeopleSoft used to fill adequately. Here’s my top vendors for the space:…
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Off-topic for me – 401(k) plans
Since I work for one of the major HR consulting firms, I heard this statistic and didn’t believe it. Then I saw it written on BLR.com. (ok – now you know I don’t work for Hewitt – and no, I…
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The technology of “Offboarding”
Yup – so we’re all familiar with onboarding now. (if not, scroll down and read a bit). Terminating employees has never gotten too much press aside from COBRA, HIPAA, getting your property back and exit interviews. However, just as there…
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HR Service Delivery, Call Centers, and Outsourcing
So how does an organization actually improve HR service delivery? What is HR Service Delivery? Quite simply it’s the ability and effectiveness with which an employer delivers key services and information to employees, managers, and executives. For an employee, if…