{"id":1113,"date":"2009-10-26T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2009-10-26T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T02:15:29","slug":"unbundling-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"Unbundling HR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems<\/a> that we\u2019ve been seeing for many years now.\u00a0 She is exactly right, that often times the unbundling of HR applications away from a central ERP system provides for more agile HR service delivery.\u00a0 Traditional ERP systems have not been growing at the pace they once were, Talent systems are getting implemented left and right with little or no coordination, and we seem to be going into a market where point solutions rule.<\/p>\n

This shift is causing the modern organization to un-bundle and then re-bundle their activities and infrastructure into more agile, nimble structures that can change and scale up or down as business needs dictate. So what does all this means for the modern HR organization and for HR technology? HR has long been an organization that has worked across boundaries, and functions such as benefits and payroll have long been outsourced to third-parties. Yet, the un-bundling of HCM will have a much farther reaching impact. Beyond benefits, payroll, and call centers, we are seeing the un-bundling of HR services from RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) to off-boarding and the un-bundling of HR technology from licensed enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS).\u00a0 ((Beaman, Karen.\u00a0 May 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u201cUnbundling HCM.\u201d\u00a0 Retrieved from www.jeitosa.com on September 15, 2009.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have nothing against either the point solution or the ERP system.\u00a0 Either way there are tradeoffs to be had.\u00a0 What an organization decides to implement is really quite up to it\u2019s own needs.\u00a0 However, there are a few problems I constantly see as organizations go towards a path of more point solutions:<\/p>\n