If You Don’t Ask The Right Qs, You Get The Answers You Deserve!
To get maximum value from attending #HRTechConf and/or #HRTechWorld, prepare your questions carefully and gather different points of view on possible answers. Be an investigative journalist in order to get useful answers to your important questions. Introduction It’s conference season, and we’d better get our act together if we’re not going to be “Trumped” during our time spent at […]
Prepare Your Questions For #HRTechWorld and #HRTechConf
If you don’t ask the right questions, you sure as hell won’t get useful answers! It’s HR technology conference season, and we’d better get our act together if we’re going to get the maximum value from our time spent at these conferences. That means knowing what questions we’re trying to answer before we’re bombarded with […]
Procurement Talent Management: An Introduction
Earlier this week, Deloitte launched its latest procurement paper, Procurement Talent Management: Exceptional Outcomes Require Exceptional People, a rather provocative analysis – especially for a consultancy – that takes aim at the talent problem in procurement today. Spend Matters will be highlighting some of the findings of the paper in the coming weeks and months, […]
Applications Integration — Core HR And Talent Management
There is a tremendous need for deep and robust integration between the traditional HRMS processes,
being built organically, on top of a common architecture and object model. The heyday for standalone talent management suites is over.
Event Report: Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit
Employer Branding Comes of Age On September 12th, Glassdoor kicked off its Employer Branding Summit in San Francisco at the Hotel Nikko. Social recruiting, employer branding, and talent acquisition pros gathered to hear how branding impacts the recruiting landscape. Robert Hohman, CEO of Glassdoor welcomed the audience to set the stage (see Figure 1). […]
To Race with the Machines, We Need Human Capital
Hold on to your jobs while you can, because pretty soon the robots will replace all of us temperamental, non-programmable human workers. At least that’s what you’d gather from these recent headlines: “What Will The Economy Look Like When The Robots Take Your Job?,” “Robots Ate My Job,” and “Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire […]
Mobile Management Goes Beyond the Device
Your mobile device is generally an extension of you. It’s a tough reality many of us still hesitate to admit, but, if we’re honest, these pocket-sized computers are a huge part of the way we live and, similarly, the way we work. In fact, as tablet sales are set to outpace laptops this year, it’s also […]
The Internet of Things and the Jobs Dilemma
Take a deep breath. Just because a computer can win Jeopardy! or drive a car, doesn’t mean the rise of the robots is around the corner and everyone will be out of a job in 10 years. Historically, this has happened before. Take a look at the Industrial Revolution. The invention of the steam engine […]
De-Bunking the 8-Hour Work Day for the Modern Workforce
Let’s face it: the eight-hour work day is a thing of the past. A tidy 9 to 5 schedule may have been a reality for the workforce a decade ago, but no more. According to government statistics, the average work day for American employees is now nearly nine hours, due, in part, to the adoption of technologies like […]
Tap Into Your Company’s Power of Digital Positivity
While I don’t support the use of covert methods to conduct employee or consumer research, I think the mass flip-out over Facebook’s recent experiment to dive deeper into the heads of its users overlooks some valuable takeaways for companies interested in promoting positive, supportive cultures. Quick recap: Facebook manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 unsuspecting users. […]
