{"id":2607,"date":"2014-12-10T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2014-12-05T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:56:14","slug":"get-over-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Get Over the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it was back in 2004 that I was writing about \u201cDavesNextMove.com<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0PeopleSoft had just gotten acquired by Oracle, and Dave Duffield was sitting around with $1B but no job. \u00a0At the same time, SuccessFactors was building up some pretty good steam, about to start having bad implementations because their stuff was so much cooler than everyone else\u2019s that their deployments could not keep up with the sales. \u00a0RecruitMax had made their conversion to Vurv which was then bought by Taleo (if memory serves me correct). \u00a0It was also around 2003 or 2004 that I got my first work issued Blackberry. \u00a0Before that, my personal device was purely for phone calls. \u00a010 years ago, we were just starting to get cloudy and mobile. \u00a0DavesNextMove.com became Workday. \u00a0SuccessFactors much later got bought by SAP to fuel their cloud HCM offerings, and Taleo by Oracle to bolster their cloud HCM.<\/p>\n

The point being\u2026 that was 10 years ago. \u00a0If you are not already in the cloud, you\u2019re somewhere between 5-10 years behind the times.<\/b><\/p>\n

None of us can imagine being on our 2004 Motorola flip phone, so why is it ok that we\u2019re still talking about deploying cloud technology today? \u00a0I still go to clients that tell me they are getting ready for PeopleSoft 9.3. \u00a0A recent conversation with a large employer informed me that a client on Oracle EBS had no intention of getting off of it. \u00a0If you are on-premise for HCM, chances you installed it between 1998 and 2008. \u00a0I tell you what – you can have your 10-15 year old technology. \u00a0Send me your iPhone, and I\u2019ll send you a 10 year old flip phone. \u00a0It\u2019ll be great.<\/p>\n

By the way. \u00a0PeopleSoft was founded in 1987 and the underlying architecture has remained pretty much the same. \u00a0Where were you in 1987? \u00a0I was\u00a0just starting high school.<\/p>\n

The point being\u2026 your employees and managers hate you. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

You really think they don\u2019t know that their employee and manager self service technology predates Amazon.com\u2019s initial user interface?<\/b><\/p>\n

Wait, if I\u2019m telling you to get over the cloud, where exactly are you supposed to be? \u00a0All the cool stuff right now is in consumer driven technology. \u00a0Think Uber. \u00a0I don\u2019t call a taxi service that controls where the cabs go. \u00a0I get on an app and the consumer controls the experience without a middleman. \u00a0Same with AirBnB. \u00a0Come to think about it, same with Quora. \u00a0Ask anything and a community of users will tell you how it is. \u00a0Hang on, we\u2019ve been rating products to help other consumers on Amazon for years. \u00a0How many of us read the product description on Amazon? \u00a0Maybe a few of us, but pretty much 100% of us check the consumer star ratings first.<\/p>\n

The same thing is happening in HR. \u00a0Companies like Careerify<\/a> are helping employees control the recruiting process. \u00a0Instead of recruiting organizations pleading with employees to provide referrals, the technology advises the employee putting them in complete control. \u00a0Companies like Betterworks<\/a> are making goals and feedback real time, collaborative, and truly valuable. \u00a0At the HR Technology conference<\/a> this year, ADP<\/a> and Workday<\/a> were talking about machine learning where their tools will help employees predict what to do next faster and better than your HR people.<\/p>\n

The point being\u2026 \u00a0HR isn\u2019t the facilitator anymore. \u00a0If you are, then you\u2019re not adding value where you should be. \u00a0HR should be sitting around analyzing what is happening, not managing it. \u00a0The power to create, transact, and collaborate is squarely in the hands of employees and managers now. \u00a0Time to give them the technology to do it. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re still not in the cloud, you\u2019re 10 years behind your competitors.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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