{"id":1377,"date":"2010-06-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2010-06-22T21:19:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T05:19:17","slug":"tennis-form-nadal-versus-federer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Style and Strategy: Nadal versus Federer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love tennis.\u00a0 I prefer to watch it than to play as I\u2019m not really very good, and I seem to have a bum shoulder.\u00a0 Each year, my wife and I record the coverage of every grand slam, and to be honest, we have missed the once omni-presence of Rafael Nadal in all the finals.\u00a0 Watching Nadal play was always a demonstration of power, command and grace.\u00a0 The man can move around a tennis court like almost nobody else and only in his early 20\u2019s I think he has 7 or so grand slams in his trophy case.<\/p>\n

I also love Roger Federer.\u00a0 Comparing his gracefulness against Nadal\u2019s is difficult.\u00a0 Certainly Roger has a different type of grace.\u00a0 His is flowing and nuanced.\u00a0 He commands his opponents not that he can always out power them or even out play them, but he can always outsmart them.\u00a0 You will sometimes (not often) see him losing the first set of the match, only to \u201cfigure out\u201d his opponent in the next set.\u00a0 The key here is style.\u00a0 They are both winners, but Federer\u2019s graceful fluidity has gotten him a record number of grand slam wins.\u00a0 On the other hand, Nadal\u2019s speed and hard hitting style have gotten him fewer wins (although he\u2019s quite young) but he is now riddled with constant injuries.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to liken this to long term HR technology planning.\u00a0 I\u2019m constantly surprised how few organizations have a long term technology roadmap and have actually stuck to it.\u00a0 Most, I find, are constantly redeveloping their technology suites not based on their strategic needs, but they are updating with the technology-du jour.\u00a0 Many organizations get caught implementing too many things all at the same time, and tax their staffs unnecessarily.\u00a0 They bring new functionality in that was not planned well and integration suffers.<\/p>\n

While short term implementation cycles might be executable, the long term data strategy is often what is really at risk.\u00a0 When implementing off of the roadmap and going for the short term gain, the ability to make high quality connections between systems, the ability to seamlessly bring in the new functionality to the employee experience, and the ability to govern high quality data all become more difficult.\u00a0 An organization\u2019s ability to plan and stick to the plan is usually also indicative to execute a single technology within the broader HR ecosystem.<\/p>\n

When integrations and data governance fail, the effects are often not visible for months or even years down the road.\u00a0 You can hammer something into place in your HR ecosystem, but the positive impacts of the new technology are often short lived.<\/p>\n

Callout to Karen Beaman \u2013 who I still have not played tennis with yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love tennis.\u00a0 I prefer to watch it than to play as I\u2019m not really very good, and I seem to have a bum shoulder.\u00a0 Each year, my wife and I record the coverage of every grand slam, and to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,2],"tags":[69,163,164,165,162],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-metrics","category-strategies","category-hr-technology","tag-data-governance","tag-federer","tag-nadal","tag-technology-roadmap","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}