Thomas Otter

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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(photo CC 2.o attribution, thanks to g-hat!)
World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh to discuss banking reform and other pressing matters. According to the Guardian,  the discussions are likely to be rocky.
European leaders appeared to be on a collision course tonight with Barack Obama and Gordon Brown after Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, warned that [...]

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In my Twitter viewer, Tweetdeck, I have a search on Gartner. I glance at it once a day or so  to see if there is stuff going on I should be aware of. I saw this earlier today.

This then takes you to the LinkedIn page of a Gartner recruiter, Peter Fay.

To those that say this [...]

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Photo via the cc of sgt. PepperedJane. thanks!
To score well at Scrabble, you need to look at the score, not the just word. Long words across the board might look good, but unless they land on double or triples, you simply waste letters and open up the board for the others to score. Literary [...]

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I spoke with an organization the other day, they are re-implementing a core HR administrative system, because the implementation they did several years ago hasn’t had the take up from the HR department users. This puzzled me a bit. How come HR users can decide whether to use the corporate system or not?  Administrative Finance [...]

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Jim and I published a first take on the SuccessFactors deal with Siemens. Gartner clients see Siemens to Provide Important SaaS Talent Management Test Case (G00168920), 15-JUN-2009.
Last week I suddenly felt like one of those people you meet in IT who keep telling you that computing hasn’t really changed since punchcards or Fortran, and [...]

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From the cc flickrstream of sludgegulper Thanks!
I have been watching and reading about the goings on with the UK parliamentarian expenses with a mixture of incredulousness, dismay, horror, and anger. As this isn’t the place to charge off on a political rant, I’ll leave my criticisms to a minimum, save to say this is [...]

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Not only did the Australians invent the flipper, a devious cricket delivery,   but they have an innovative HR technology thinker in Michael Specht.  If you are interested in HR tech then you ought to be reading his blog.  He has a lot of experience and interesting ideas, especially around the impact of social software on [...]

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The best job in the world campaign from the Queensland government has gone brilliantly. It created masses of publicity for the barrier reef, on prime time TV, in the press, and across the full spectrum of social media.  It won best advertising campaign of the year.
According to my favourite newspaper, the Guardian.
A PR coup [...]

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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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