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.
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 small hiring the wrong person can cause death or worse bankruptcy.
Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite, has a blog on entrepreneurship and wrote his third post about hiring. Good to see! This follows his second post about an organisation who posted everyone’s salaries on the Intranet in an effort to promote openness!
Joe is now on my blogroll as a regular item.
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 a speaker.
The conference is designed to focus on practical tools for HR a new focus, in previous years the conference has been on eLearning and before that technology.
I urge all participants to fill in the delegate questionnaires that will be available during the conference so that AHRI can evaluate the success. SIG members have been asked to feedback on the conference as well from the SIG’s perspective.
The HRIS SIG will be presenting the official AHRI and Cedar Workforce Technology Survey results. These are very interesting and should provide a great insight for people looking to improve their workforce technology tools.
I will try to post a couple of summaries and maybe even a few photos!
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?
I briefly looked at alternative communications a couple of months ago and in 2001 HRIS tends which covered a similar list, interestingly we are still waiting for many of the 2001 trends to become reality while several are here and now.
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 wireless hotspot in the domestic terminal that the general public can use. My brief investigation found none, which does not mean there is not one.
I checked out the Internet cafe, which at $2/12 minutes is not as cheap as I would have thought. I have previously used Optus Wireless on their casual plan and this is $2.64 for $12.
The end result no real time blogging, instead I tapped this up on the plane and posted during the breaks in my meetings.
Just signed up with Flickr, now I can Moblog! Here is the view from my office taken with my phone.
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:-
So until next time, cya!
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.
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 the Global Component Exchange (GCX, you need to be registered to view this), which will eventually allow organisations to view different components and the vendors who provide them. Initially the GCX is being used in John’s course at NSW TAFE. I have been lucky enough to be able to view the GCX as EmployeeConnect is a company who John has been working with.
In quoting John from his draft standard HR-CSAS is “providing an infrastructure foundation layer to enable component based development (CBD) to operate. CBD, in turn, will enable Human Resource Management Systems to integrate component products from multiple vendors, for so long the Holy Grail of software development.” This means organisations can “plug and play” different components from vendors into their HRIS environment. If you are interested have a look at a presentation John has put together.
A component based architecture has some very exciting implications for all players in the HRIS begin to release products. Imagine an environment where you could purchase your payroll engine from one vendor, your performance management tool from another, and your recruitment from a third. You might think this is possible today, but it is only so if each vendor installs their own database, with it’s own data structure. Moving information between each system is an IT headache (read increased time and cost). Now what happens if you want to purchase a Workforce planning tool from a fourth vendor, you need to build integrations (again read increased time and cost) before you can use the solution effectively. In a component based environment this would not be required, as each vendor would know-how to work together, with a common database layer.
Ok, you might think I am off my tree but I believe that such an environment would do wonders for helping with the struggling ROI most HRIS projects seem to deliver (as different to promised).
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 Jonathan started his blog how long it would be before something like this happened.
Michael Specht 