I admit – I used to be one… A vendor that is. I was one of those people who told HR technology buyers, “Great HR technology will allow you to be more strategic!!!” I’m sorry. But actually (in my and every vendor’s defense), it’s not a lie. We just need to understand what salespeople tell us and we also need to understand that with an HR technology implementation, there’s more that needs to happen than just “going live.”<\/p>\n
As we<\/a> have talked about strategy<\/a> and HR technology<\/a>, we need to recognize that great HR technology does indeed get us to a place where we can focus on strategy. The problem is that technology projects often go like this:<\/p>\n 10 steps to doomed technology<\/strong><\/p>\n A good technology project is not only going to provide you with good technology that is implemented well, it will also provide a concurrent focus on how the technology can be applied, and the HR workforce redeployed once the new infrastructure takes place. Jeff’s posts<\/a> have more than adequately pointed out that most senior HR practitioners do not understand HR strategy at an executive level, let alone how to apply it to the HR function.<\/p>\n I admit – I used to be one… A vendor that is. I was one of those people who told HR technology buyers, “Great HR technology will allow you to be more strategic!!!” I’m sorry. But actually (in my and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","category-hr-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nYou know I’m right too. And in all of that mass of confusion, we either ignored our lack of focus on strategy, or we blamed the technology for not giving us the right data we needed to be strategic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n