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Entries from March 2009

Modernizing core HR

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

While at the Benz museum, (see earlier posts) I snapped these pictures of the time entry system that the factory used.

 

As organizations grapple with a very different economy from this time last year, we are seeing a growing interest in addressing cost issues associated with core HR processes such as time recording, leave [...]

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Tags: HCM · HR · cost optimization

Ada Lovelace Day- Bertha Benz

March 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Sometime ago Suw kicked this off .
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin [...]

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Tags: history

Twitter and my job.

March 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I receive lots of vendor briefing requests, some relevant to my work, and others not.  This one links to my research on privacy and HR technology, so I’m listening to it this evening. But what made me blog this today was IBM’s use of Twitter and the hashtag. Twitter is in the enterprise. How are [...]

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Tags: Social Software · privacy

Payroll and cycling

March 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

photo. My bike. In Italy last summer
I enjoy long distance cycling, and throughout the warmer months of the year, I try and get out on my bicycle most days. I normally train for a big event, involving some big hills, so that I have a goal to aim for. I do [...]

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Tags: HCM · HR · Law