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HRM Business Model “Starter Kit”

Event Report — Workday Technology Summit 8-23-2010 — Humongous Post

Workday held a briefing yesterday for twenty of enterprise software’s toughest and most knowledgeable analysts.  Workday had much more to say about their technology and business strategy, about their underlying architecture and object model, and about what’s cooking in the Lab than they’ve revealed thus far to this type of audience.  Even a few surprises [...]

M&A Observations: Whither Goest Genesys?

 
Late-breaking news.  Genesys’ buyer is PeopleStrategy, the current owner of Integral Systems (which was Dave Duffield’s predecessor company to PeopleSoft, so we’re going back here to the mid-80′s for it’s heyday).  PeopleStrategy is led by Randy Cooper, who also led the buy of Genesys for Salary.com.  Randy is very experienced with that generation of HRMS, having [...]

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” — Let’s Change That In Chicago

The more things change, the more they remain the same  doesn’t sound as romantic as the French, but it’s a reasonable translation.  So it is in many aspects of life, and so it is especially in my little corner of the professional world, at that intersection of HRM and IT where I’ve been camped out [...]

HRM SaaS InFullBloom vs Everything Else: The Musical!

Since my singing finale to last year’s closing keynote at the HR Technology Conference (if you missed it, you missed it because no YouTube versions have popped up – yet), many colleagues have asked me about my next such performance.  And no, the picture (that’s me in the foreground) isn’t from HR Tech but rather from my long [...]

Reflections On The Health Care “Debate”

Long before there was COBRA, long before family coverage included adult children, long before graduate school tuition included basic health care, and long before auto insurance provided adequate medical coverage, I had a small fender bender auto accident in Boston, where I was working days and getting my MBA at night.  I was between jobs [...]

Retirement Planning

Queen Elizabeth With President Obama

Fooled ya.  This isn’t about me but about your HRMS — my own retirement planning will be addressed in a future post, dated sometime after the 2nd coming.

With a new generation of ERP/HRMS in release or coming next year, a reasonable question is when and how to plan for the retirement of [...]

Where Are The Snowdens Of Yesterday: A Cautionary Tale

Do you know the story of MSA (Management Sciences America)?  That once proud business applications software vendor dominated the market for financial systems in the early 80′s, when it was the largest such software vendor by far.  By 1991, it had been relegated to the software graveyard.  And if you read about it’s flamboyant, larger than life CEO, [...]