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CFOs Should Trust HR, But Do Have Reasons To Be Wary

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 11, 2009  |  18 Comments

In "Memo to CFOs: Don’t Trust HR", the author summarizes a presentation by Rutgers University’s Richard Beatty at the CFO Rising conference (for those of you in the HR world, think of it as like SHRM, IHRIM, or the HR Technology Conference — it is a major conference for CFOs).  It is a pretty harsh [...]

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Links 03/10/2009

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 10, 2009  |  Comments Off

Four Case Studies in Layoffs: What to Watch Out For These are some good examples of layoffs gone wrong. Layoffs happen for two main reasons: revenues are lower than expected (now or in the future) and costs need to be realigned or there is a shift in strategy. The latter is something foreseen and resource [...]

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Links 03/07/2009

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 7, 2009  |  Comments Off

Avoiding redundancy ~ Jon Ingham’s Strategic HCM (Human Capital Management) Blog Some good thoughts on managing people costs. tags: HCM Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Links 03/05/2009

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 5, 2009  |  Comments Off

Best HR Ideas in Talent Management – Human Resource Executive Online – Story More “Best Ideas” and again good case studies. tags: HCM, talentmanagement Best Ideas in HR Technology – Human Resource Executive Online – Story The story title says it all, but these are some good case examples of HR technology usage. tags: HCM [...]

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Links 03/04/2009

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 4, 2009  |  Comments Off

Knowledge Infusion Center of Excellence: Recruiting CRM A good list of vendors that offer Candidate Relationship Management solutions. tags: e-recruitment Payroll and cycling Thomas makes a good point about payroll (and cycling too). tags: payroll The Human Capitalist » HR…Want to Learn How to Do Social Collaboration? Check out Sodexo! A good example of leveraging [...]

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Links 03/03/2009

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 3, 2009  |  Comments Off

Dilbert comic strip for 03/01/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read this. tags: e-recruitment The CareerXroads Annex: Sources of Hire 2008 & What It Means for 2009 | ERE Blog Network Good data on sources of hiring. This is why there is more [...]

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The "Field of Dreams" In Workforce Analytics

by Jim Holincheck  |  March 2, 2009  |  1 Comment

One of the fun parts of managing a team of analysts is that I get to read a lot of great research.  Today, I read a note about a vendor panel at one of Gartner’s conferences.  One of the panel questions was about what customers can do to spread the usage of business intelligence tools [...]

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