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Entries from October 2009

Integration is like weather

October 31st, 2009 · No Comments

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Most of my working career encouraged me to chant the mantra, “we are integrated.”  I have spent the last year or so thinking about integration in a more objective light. Integration for me has undergone a de-reification process.
I was doing a presentation about HR technology recently, and I [...]

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Tags: software design · software industry

Fusion and Oracle Open World

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

(photo mine, use with cc attribution licence) Hotel Fusion, San Francisco.
I’m just back home from a trip to California. I attended Oracle Open World, and had several other meetings in the bay area. 
I saw the Keynote presentation, and on the next day  I spent an hour or so with the leaders of HCM [...]

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Tags: Events · software industry

Employee branding isn’t just a web thing.

October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Michael Specht, an Australian HR expert, has picked up on something interesting. He does that regularly.  Read the post here.
 
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An Apple “employee to be” has done the geeky thing of unboxing his offer letter. full details here. His excitement and pride jump out at me. This fellow is engaged before even getting [...]

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Tags: HR