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”
Category Archives: HR Management
Sun requiring employees to sign guidelines on blogging
Steve Rubel talks on a Fortune article that states Sun employees will soon be required to agree to specific guidelines on blogging. Sounds like a good thing. Maybe. Does this mean soon Sun will require employees to sign a document allowing them to talk about work at a BBQ on Sunday afternoon, or at theContinue reading “Sun requiring employees to sign guidelines on blogging”
The perfect HR search
There is discussion going on at the moment about the Perfect Search, referring to the results provided by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others. Most of this seems to have steemed from John Battelle asking the question “What is the Perfect Search” as he pens the final chapter in his new book. JeremyContinue reading “The perfect HR search”
HR service centres & CRM
Last night was the first presentation of the AHRI/Cedar 2004 Workforce Technology Survey results, a survey that has been a project over the last 18 months for the AHRI NSW HRIS SIG (wow how many more acronims can you get!) The results showed that about 60-70% of surveyed organisations deliver HR services to their employeesContinue reading “HR service centres & CRM”
Workforce analytics (WFA)
This is a follow up post from before HR Week. The results and benefits of a WFA project are directly related to the quality of the data that you have. You can have the sexist technology and the biggest servers, most number of metrics, but without good quality data you will fail. WFA is notContinue reading “Workforce analytics (WFA)”
HR Week wrap up
Yesterday I spent several hours of my day at The Westin in Sydney at HR Week, we started late due to Sydney’s rail network (again). The Boral presentation had a couple of learning points for me. The first was that they did not implement call logging and call centre type technology on their phones. MaybeContinue reading “HR Week wrap up”
HR Week
Welcome all to HR Week, I hope everyone gets a chance to attend a session. Over the last several days I have been preparing for my part of the HRIS SIG’s session on Workforce Analytics. I will be sharing the stage with John Macy and Linda Cameron to discuss the different aspects of WFA bothContinue reading “HR Week”
HR Transaction Costs
One of the questions I am asked over and over again is “what level of return on investment can I expect from the implementation of Employee Self Service (ESS)”. While the answer to that question is as varied as the organisations who deploy ESS, let me try to summarize in broad terms what can beContinue reading “HR Transaction Costs”
HR BPO growth
An article from Workforce.com about the trend in the US towards BPO of HR, including the associated technology. I find this interesting from all sorts of angles. Firstly working for a software vendor, does it mean we need to jump into bed with every BPO provider in Australia to stay in business? We already doContinue reading “HR BPO growth”
HRIS trends
In 2001 I noted a number of trends that I felt would begin to take shape over the next few years. They were publish on my Web Site at the time, which has now been disbanded. Anyway I thought I would re-publish them here, not that they are correct and nor do I still seeContinue reading “HRIS trends”
Michael Specht 