Michael Specht

I sit here typing this post during the first week of the second decade in the 21st century however some many organisation’s HR strategies are still stuck in the 20th century.
Let me explain.
Today most organisational HR strategy is based on a asynchronous model where the organisation does something and at a later time employees react. For [...]

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I got distracted today so I started digging through my old blog posts to have a look at some of the subjects I have covered in the last 5 years.
Initially I was very much focused on blogs as a method of solving all of the world’s issues. Mainly because that was the main form of [...]

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I read with interest this morning Dr John Sullivan’s article looking at how to survive in such turbulent economic times, his concept seems to be a play on the software development process Agile. To quote Wikipedia Agile software development is:
Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where [...]

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Yesterday was the first joint ATC/Inspecht event looking specifically at the usage of social media in recruitment. My personal opinion is that overall the day was a great success, although we will wait for the formal feedback from participants to know their feelings. Here are some of my thoughts and observations.

Having over 130 people in [...]

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The use of social software tools inside the firewall is called Enterprise 2.0, a term coined by Professor Andrew McAfee in his 2006 article “Enterprise 2.0 The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration“. Within this article he talks about the building blocks of Enterprise 2.0, SLATES.

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This makes sense as they mirror the growth components that have made [...]

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