Naomi Bloom
Leading independent voice, analyst, end-user HRM business/delivery system strategyconsultant, vendor HR technology/HRO business strategy/platform architecture/object model consultant, and thought leader across the HRM/HR technology/HR outsourcing industry now is the 23rd year of her solo practice, Bloom & Wallace. You can learn more about Naomi's work and thinking at In Full Bloom.
Belated Comments On Workday’s 2-27-2017 Earnings Call
Workday’s latest earnings call, on 2-27-2017, caught my attention primarily because of what the financial analysts didn’t ask.
A Layman’s Thoughts On American Healthcare
At the end of 2009, as the ACA was being born, while I was recovering from a fully insured (but dreadfully painful post-op) rotator cuff surgery, I shared my two cents worth on the coming of the ACA. With the healthcare debate now front and central in the GOP-controlled Congress, which is committed to repealing the […]
Strategic Planning Is A Mindset!
Strategic planning is a mindset which can be applied to great swaths of your life. If you’re willing to do the heavy lifting, just like in business, strategic planning provides much improved outcomes. With all of my exciting plans for Christmas and New Year’s taking a back seat to my second head/chest cold of the season […]
Death By Lousy HRM — The Whole Story In One Sitting!
Preface I don’t know what got into me. Without any planning of plot or characters, without any outline of key points chapter by chapter and, quite frankly, without knowing what the hell I was doing, I just started writing. The first chapter was posted 12-6-2016 (the finale on 12-30-2016), and then the fat really was in the […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Finale
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] And there it was! DCI Fritz saw the way forward. Without forensic evidence to prove him the murderer or even an eyewitness who could place Wrigley at the murder scene at the right time, Fritz had no real basis for charging Wrigley. But what he […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter XVIII
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] There was silence as each of them absorbed the implications of what had just been said against the known backdrop of the case. The murder took place in a closed facility with tight security which tended to rule out a wandering homicidal maniac. There were […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter XVII
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] As they kicked around these latest ideas, DCI Fritz began to draw up a chart of his own on a napkin. Who could have had the necessary access to Cummins? Whose arrival in his office would not have aroused any concerns? With whom might Cummins […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter XVI
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] While they were still digesting Zelda’s Sherry tray bombshell, and knowing that the thorough search for it would take many hours or even days, DCI Fritz picked up his reporting with the results of his team’s meetings with the candidates whose file folders were on […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter XV
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] When they’d gathered, making small talk until their food had been served, it struck each of the two ladies, without any conversation about it, that they weren’t being treated as suspects but rather as partners — or perhaps just assistants — in the investigation. And […]
Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter XIV
[Here’s the entire series in case you missed previous chapters] The next big issue presented itself to DCI Fritz when he got the final autopsy report with toxicology results. The most interesting item was that Mr. Cummins had a great deal of diazepam, prescribed with care as a muscle relaxant and anti-anxiety medication, in his system at the […]
