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HRM Business Model “Starter Kit”

In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: France/Spain

The Glory Of Carcassone At Night

 Ron and I will be traveling again from 6/25 through 7/17 (life is short!) mostly in the Languedoc and Dordogne in France and on the Med coast of Spain between Valencia and Barcelona.  We’ll be soaking up “best” practices in HRM, the HRM delivery system and HR technology every [...]

In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: Istanbul To Venice

Venice Lingers In The Mind Like A Love Song

Ron and I will be traveling from 4/30 through 5/17/10 from Istanbul to Venice, soaking up “best” practices in HRM, the HRM delivery system and HR technology every step of the way.  I’ll be doing some tweeting from “the road,” @InFullBloomUS, but I may not have [...]

More Of Naomi’s Killer Scenarios: Retroactive Processing

Once upon a time, the concept of retroactive payroll processing was invented to handle the all too often situation of a personnel action (that’s what they were called when I was young) that was presented to “the system” after the date on which is should have taken effect.  Without a retroactive processing capability in payroll, [...]

The Future Of HRM Software: Naomi’s Preferred Behaviors

Who Can Forget This Teaching Moment? Susan Boyle Sings Out

Having done the first post in this series, on interrogatory configuration, without even realizing that I wanted to do an entire series, I then did a setup post to launch what I hope will be considerable discussion of the desired architectural characteristics (a.k.a. Naomi’s preferred HRMDS platform [...]

More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: KSAOC-Centric Strategic HRM

Figure 1: KSAOC-Centric, Strategic HRM

One of the great debates in HR circles is over what is strategic and what is merely administrative with respect to human resource management (HRM) processes.  That which is strategic, often referred to as talent management, is considered worthy of executive attention, academic research, attendance at expensive conferences, and the writing of [...]

More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: Discontinuous Organizational Changes

Mohorovicic Discontinuity — diagram by USGS, red line added by Geology.com

This is the last, at least for a while, post in a series I’ve been doing that suggest some “killer” scenarios for HR leaders and their teams to use when considering how to design their HRM processes and their HRM delivery system.  These are also [...]

More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: Ongoing Organizational Design Complexities

One of the toughest aspects designing or evaluating HRM software is hoe well it accommodates quite specialized but frequently observed organizational designs that go way beyond the traditional command and control model that’s hard-wired into the designs of many legacy ERPs/HRMSs.  Although accommodating newer organizational designs has been a goal of these older platforms, when it [...]

More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: Worker Lifecycle Events

Worker bee lifecycle courtesy of www.bumblebee.org/images/lifecycle.jpg

After my initial post on “killer” scenarios, I’ve had a lot of positive feedback (more via email than via comments on the post, so perhaps some of my colleagues are a little reluctant to have their say in public?) on the value of that content and requests for more [...]

The Tower Of Babel In HRM: Where Is Our Domain Object Model?

One of the biggest challenges in any attempt to apply information technology to the human resource management (HRM) business is that we don’t yet have an industry, geographic and vendor neutral vocabulary for discussing its major concepts, let alone the details.  Is my candidate your applicant?  Is my contractor your contingent worker?  Is my total compensation [...]

Let’s Kill Off RFPs!

Remember This HRM Software RFP?

In an earlier post, I suggested the use of scripted scenario demos to determine the fit between HRM software and an organization’s needs.  But what are scripted scenarios and demos based on them?  How do you create effective scenarios?  And how do you avoid scenario overkill?

Scripted scenarios are very much like mini-Harvard MBA [...]