People first: Cloud HRM and talent management
In 1951, the world’s first business computer was switched on at the London headquarters of J Lyons & Co, a food and catering giant that, with its chain of popular tea shops, had been the Starbucks of wartime Britain. Named LEO (for Lyons Electronic Office), its main role was processing payroll and inventory. Around the [...]
Are You The Very Model Of A Modern HR Leader?
[If you haven't seen a great production of "The Pirates Of Penzance," then the title of this post may not make any sense. If that's the case, please check out the lyrics and a performance before reading further.] I have always loved “The Pirates of Penzance,” and especially the monologue-like song of the modern Major General. [...]
Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up
The Message Is Clear! In the first three posts of this series, here, here and here, I reflected on various aspects of building and sustaining a long and successful career. Now it’s time to sum up the lessons of my own career, a long professional run for which I’m truly grateful. There’s been a huge portion of [...]
Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics
[I published a post addressing this topic right after I launched my blog 11/9/2009, and I never expected to address this topic again. Surely by now, I would have thought that we'd have broad agreement on how to measure the impact of HRM on business outcomes. But I had few readers in the beginning, and there's [...]
HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
Dr. Naomi Is In! Unlike my good friend Ray Wang, there are no Naomi clones. Just this solo consultant trying to save the world from bad HRM and HRM delivery systems. And while I’m a pretty productive and hard worker, there aren’t enough hours in a lifetime to support every HR exec who comes calling with their [...]
HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?
How The Hell Should I Know What Software Is Best? Here’s another post that I had meant to write much sooner, but now it will post while we’re in Monaco before the start of our cruise up the Rhone River. I’m going to try to do some tweeting/posting from the “road,” always hopeful that [...]
NorthgateArinso – More than you might suspect….
Dr Pepper (full disclosure – my favorite beverage) had an ad campaign for years claiming their carbonated drink was “so misunderstood“. Over the years, I’ve encountered a number of technology and services firms whose reputation or brand stood for one thing but the company was actually something else altogether. NorthgateArinso (NGA) is somewhat in that camp. [...]
To Outsource Or Not To Outsource, These Are The Questions
Before Bill Kutik has a chance to tease me about the intensity (aka length and depth) of this post, be forewarned that there is serious “how to” material below. Every organization outsources parts of HRM, almost no matter how your define outsourcing. From using 3rd parties to do background checking or COBRA administration (both of [...]
HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — Strategy Matters
Show Me The Money! In my last post, I wrote about one aspect of the way in which I look at and learn about the HRM software vendors and outsourcing providers with whom I’ve been meeting over the last few months, namely their ambition as businesses. In this post I want to take up another important aspect of [...]
The Future Of HRM Software: Applicability/Eligibility
GOP View Of Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill This post is one in a series I’ve been writing about the preferred architectural behaviors for great HRM software, to include HRM SaaS InFullBloom (but many are equally important for single tenant HRM software regardless of how it’s licensed/subscribed and installed/hosted). I posted the introduction to this series [...]
