Strategic e-HR Conference - San Diego - Day 2 Keynote - Tod Loofbourrow - Authoria

jason.averbook — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:49:56 GMT

Day 2 begins with a keynote by Tod Loofbourrow from Authoria. Tod was also on the panel that Knowledge Infusion's Jason Averbook moderated last evening in San Diego.

Tod begins with "HR Makes Talent Count"

Alignment
Engagement
Leveraging Community

Tod next discusses how The World is Connected

Discussion on how connected all countries are today
Development continues in most economies compared to 30 years ago
Great representation using graphics
Workforce - new world, connected, global
Opportunity is for HR to better manage the connectedness of the new age workforce

Prediction that CEO's will come from background in talent, not necessarily traditional sales and marketing backgrounds.

Obstacles to "Good Talent Management" discussed

Sr managers don't spend enough time on talent management
Organization is siloed
Map not done to CEO strategy

CEO Priorities discussed - interview played (video) - Helen Drinan, SVP of HR, Caritas Christi Health Care

Finding ways to get maximum contribution from people already in organization
Work that is meaningful truly drives employees
Productivity is one thing - at same time - really need to understand employee engagement

Engagement is capitalizing on discretionary effort we give every day at work

Good discussion by Tod about need for online identity and "talent profile"
Helen identifies need that from moment brought in, think of employees feel like leaders and start to teach them how to lead more and more

Interesting comparison of user interfaces between Apple iPod and SAP and discussion of how complex iTunes and iPods truly are, but the interface makes it seem so easy.

Don't complicate for complication sake
iPod is a database too; very interesting analogy

Question from audience: How does Authoria work with PeopleSoft or SAP?

Interface/Integration to ERP's
Need to leverage foundation of ERP
All other talent information in talent management system
Read and Feed
If sold business case to executives that PeopleSoft does it all, how to I resell business case

All about set of business processes not done in ERP (not always true)
Category of software that does more strategic things than ERP that now has to talk to the ERP (interesting statement)

Tod showing pieces of Authoria's "talent profile" - giving audience idea of what is a "talent profile"

Discussion of how HR must align with line management

Good discussion about how talent management must be comprehensive and needs to have three major components

"HR power users"
"Business Managers"
"Employees/Candidates"

2 case studies

PepsiAmericas
Aetna

Knowledge Infuser

Strategic e-HR Conference - San Diego - Day 2 Keynote - Tod Loofbourrow - Authoria