Jim Holincheck

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Entries from October 2008

An Interesting Experiment in New HCM Software Business Models

October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

MrTed announced yesterday its new SmartRecruiters offering.  It is a free E-Recruitment software solution targeted at companies with fewer than 2,500 employees.  MrTed plans to make money by taking a percentage of value-added services from partners who integrate their services (for example, job board posting, assessments, background checking) to the SmartRecruiters solution.  I had posted [...]

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KronosWorks 2008

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Given the economic climate, there was a good turnout at KronosWorks (I do not have official numbers — maybe Kronos will post a comment).  Opening remarks by CEO Aaron Ain focused on continuing to invest in products, employees, and support (though like everyone else they will be scrutinizing their operating expenses in the near term).  [...]

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HR Technology Conference Wrap Up

October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I had planned to write a blog post on the HR Technology Conference.  I have had quite a busy 10 days.  I was at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo from Monday through Wednesday last week (my first three presentations of the week plus many customer 1:1s).  I flew back home to Chicago on Wednesday night so that [...]

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Keep the Performance Reviews!

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Ok, I cover the market for solutions that help automate performance reviews.  So, if you think that makes me biased, so be it.  However, I thought it was important to post about a recent Wall Street Journal article called "Get Rid of the Performance Review!".  The author offers seven reasons why performance reviews are ill-advised [...]

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Q&A from the ERP Process Integrity Cathedral vs. BoB Innovation Bazaar

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This post is a follow up to the presentation Jeff Woods and I did at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on Wednesday, October 15.  We did not get a chance to answer any of the questions submitted from the audience so we thought we would use this blog post to provide answers to the attendees (and others)

During your [...]

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The Changing Face (and Needs) of Enterprise Application Users

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I did a presentation yesterday Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo about how to align IT with ERP, CRM, and SCM users.  I thought I made a pretty compelling case.  Most CIOs think that IT does not lacks the flexibility to respond to business change, that it could do more to deliver technology innovations needed by the business, and [...]

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Oracle OpenWorld 2008 – Day 3 (Final Report)

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

This was my last day at OpenWorld.  I started off with a presentation from University California-Berkeley by Jeannine Raymond and David Scronce on their PeopleSoft 9.0 upgrade. 
Update:  My apologies to Jeannine Raymond from UC-Berkeley.  She presented along with David, not Colleen Neymeyer (from Oracle), as originally indicated.
The upgrade was what I would characterize as [...]

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Interesting HCM Links

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

My automatic posting of links from del.icio.us is on the fritz (again).  So, I thought I would do a post to get them on the blogs.
YouTube and recruitment – Thomas Otter — A member of the Gartner Blog Network
Thomas has a great post on the use of video in recruiting with some great examples.
On the [...]

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