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January 15, 2008

 

 

Great piece this morning by Sarah Needleman of the Wall Street Journal.  Take a read.

 

Continued exposure for how technology can help organizations drive results if planned and tied back to business goals and needs.  A few examples in the article:

 

  • UPS and Career Management

  • Hilton Hotels - Succession and Career Planning - Finding the Best Manager at the Right Time

 

A great quote from the article which I completely agree with:

 

Advent Software Inc., an international technology company, is planning

to add talent-management software later this year for its roughly 1,000

workers. "Employees now tend to expect this," says John Brennan, vice

president of human resources at the San Francisco-based firm. "They

find easy access to information in all aspects of their lives and

expect the company they work for will provide the same."

 

This is a great article as you continue to make the case in your organization as to what the competition is doing.  Knowledge Infusion sees this everyday, and those organizations that are not optimizing processes to leverage technology, will clearly be at a competitive disadvantage.

 

Talent is an issue.  The time is now to start planning.

 

Another infusion of knowledge...

 

Link to Sarah's article in the WSJ

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Over the last 24 hours, the number of blogs and press clippings on the latest release of SuccessFactors named ULTRA has caught many people's attention in the industry.  I would like to congratulate SuccessFactors on their release, but more importantly, helping to bring the reality of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 to the forefront of the minds of the HR audience. 

 

 

ZDNet does a great job of ushering in the new features of ULTRA, all of which are attractive to many individuals - the question now is "Is HR ready to use them?"  This is something that Knowledge Infusion has been working with our clients on for the last 18 months and have more active relationships looking to deploy tools like this than we could have ever imagined at the beginning of 2007.  The HR, HCM and Talent Management space now has the opportunity to make a difference to the workforce, not the HR department, like never before.

 

 

During 2008, one of the things that we will see MUCH more of is organizations actually learning to use, which includes developing processes and deploying excellent change management tools in their organization to leverage investments that they have already made in tools like this and others.  This is no small task as enterprises are asked to change processes that have existed for 50 years and for no real reason except to give a small merit increase.  Will be interesting to watch.

 

 

The other callout for this article is that HR (along with CRM) are being called out as the leaders in bringing these new technologies to the enterprise (WHAT? - Did I just say that).  Yes I did, and it is  time now more than ever, for HR to realize that they have a GOLDEN opportunity to be the ones that shepard these new technologies into the organization and take the leadership position in driving a collaborative, engaged workforce.

 

 

Congratulations to the vendors in the space for developing products that give HR an opportunity to jump to this position.  Now as HR professionals, lets take advantage of it and change our role forever.

 

 

Another infusion of knowledge...

 

 

Link to ZDNet blog posting

 

 

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