Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz was in Australia last week, he writes about his visit and seems to have taken a liking to a portion of our national coat of arms. Well, good on him, kangaroo is fantastic, and with the over population of them if he feels inclined to eat a couple good.
Author Archives: Michael Specht
No False Positives
Something all recruiters (and managers,CEOs, shareholders etc) fear is hiring the wrong person. When you are very big it does not matter who you hire, if you are big enough you can even screw up with the CEO. (When you do this it seems only the shareholders suffer 😉 .) However when you are smallContinue reading “No False Positives”
People in Business : Making HR Happen conference
Tomorrow and Wednesday I am off to AHRI‘s second major conference for the year “People in Business : Making HR Happen” at Star City. It will be interesting to see the conference from a participants point of view, it has been 5 years since last time, usually I am attending as an exhibitor, sometimes aContinue reading “People in Business : Making HR Happen conference”
The next big thing?
During one of my meetings yesterday we were discussing what the next really big thing would be in the HRIS space. The list below was some of the items that we were looking at, the question is which ones, if any will be the next big thing? HR CRM Workforce planning Workforce analytics Collaborative toolsContinue reading “The next big thing?”
Wireless blogging?
I have flown to Melbourne this morning on the 6am Qantas flight, getting up in time to meet this flight should be against the law, but I digress. I had a few minutes and wanted to post a blog so once I had my coffee I decided to see if I could find a wirelessContinue reading “Wireless blogging?”
The office view
Just signed up with Flickr, now I can Moblog! Here is the view from my office taken with my phone.
TGIF
Well then end of another interesting week. I have not had a chance to blog everything that I have been doing in the last couple of weeks, just too many exciting things. In summary, in reverse order:- Been following Web 2.0 on Feedster, some very cool stuff coming out. Playing with IPodder (all I needContinue reading “TGIF”
Another one bites the dust (Maybe)
Steve Rubel has an interesting item about a Delta Airline’s flight attendant who has been suspended for Photo Blogging. You just cannot be to careful what you do on your blog. It seems more and more people are ending up on the wrong side of their blog, IT workers, CEO’s, daughter’s US presidental candidates.
HRIS component software
I have been having some interesting discussions with John Macy over the last year or so about his activities related to the “Human Resource – Component Software Application Standard” (HR-CSAS), things are starting to get moving on the standard. John has undertaken a significant amount of work on this with the recent release of theContinue reading “HRIS component software”
Sun vs HP and blogs
It seems Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has caused a stir over at HP with his blog. I found in it in ComputerWorld has been reported in several blogs, including Scoble who provides some really good advice, “only say nice things about your competitors. It drives them nuts. ” I love it! I wondered when JonathanContinue reading “Sun vs HP and blogs”
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