Michael Specht, an Australian HR expert, has picked up on something interesting. He does that regularly. Read the post here. photo via glyph 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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'HR'
Employee branding isn’t just a web thing.
by Thomas Otter | October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Linking performance to pay. The G20 and HCM software.
by Thomas Otter | September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
(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 [...]
Category: HR Law software industry Tags: banks, g20, HR, sofware
Twitter, LinkedIn and working at Gartner.
by Thomas Otter | September 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Category: HR internet Social Software Tags: recruiting
Scrabble and HR
by Thomas Otter | September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Category: HR measurement Tags: HR;Software;Patterns;
HR IT project musings.
by Thomas Otter | August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
Category: HR project software industry Tags: challenges, HR; IT, project
Back to the Future.
by Thomas Otter | June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: history HR SaaS SAP software industry Tags: back to the future, SaaS, SAP, SuccessFactors
Sunlight, process, systems, moats, tennis courts, flipping, heatmaps, mashups and flat screen TVs.
by Thomas Otter | May 27, 2009 | 5 Comments
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 [...]
Category: finance HR Law software industry Tags: expenses, parliament. Charles Arthur, Tony Hirst., travel, UK
More Antipodean innovation.
by Thomas Otter | May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: HR Social Software software industry Tags: australia, HCM, New Zealand
Learning from Australia.
by Thomas Otter | May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
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 [...]
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Category: HR Tags: australia, HR, recruitment
Modernizing core HR
by Thomas Otter | March 30, 2009 | Comments Off
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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Category: cost optimization HCM HR Tags: cost optimization, HR, time management
