Michael Specht

A blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and recruitment.

Entries Tagged as 'General'

Jamie Oliver TED Prize Winner

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · General · 606 views

“I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity” – Jamie Oliver
I posted the 20 minute video of Jamie Oliver this year’s TED Prize winner over on Inspecht TV but wanted to cross post here [...]

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Building your technology business case

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · General, HRIS, Management, Technology · 762 views

One of the most important tasks of any project is building and maintaining your business case. Unfortunately the business case is so often a single document not covering full life cycle costs and produced to obtain funding approval and never looked at again!
Bad!
In fact your business case needs to document the full cost of the business change [...]

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Social Recruiting Summit

June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · General · 1,401 views

I arrived this afternoon in Palo Alto to attend the Social Recruiting Summit, catch up with several people here in San Francisco and have a few meetings. While it is a damn long way to come for effectively 1 day event I am hoping it is worth the effort.
We kick off tonight with a Tweet Up, [...]

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Cedar Crestone HR Systems Survey

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments · General · 1,433 views

The 12th Annual Cedar Crestone HR Systems Survey is in progress. Over the years many of my clients have participated in the survey and also used the results to define their go forward strategy. If you are in a position to participate I would highly encourage you to do so.
Not sure about the survey here [...]

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Future Summit

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · General · 1,394 views

Over the next couple of days I will be attending Future Summit 2009 a great big think tank in Melbourne run by Australian Davos Connection (ADC), covering the theme  shaping the future. If you don’t know about Future Summit it was founded by some “big business dudes” after returning from the World Economic Forum a [...]

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