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2014 Edition: Do You Know How To Answer These HR Technology Questions?

2014 Edition: Do You Know How To Answer These HR Technology Questions?

By Naomi Bloom on September 9, 2014

[ It’s HR technology conference season, and we’d better get our shit together if we’re going to get the maximum value from our time spent at these conferences.  That means knowing what questions we’re trying to answer before we’re bombarded with vendors telling us that whatever they’re selling is the answer to our not-yet-formulated-clearly questions.  […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Bloom & Wallace Engagements, Debunking/Calling Out, Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HR Tech Conference, Strategic HRMDS Planning

InFullBloom’s 4th Anniversary — Where To From Here?

InFullBloom’s 4th Anniversary — Where To From Here?

By Naomi Bloom on November 11, 2013

Celebrating Our 2010 Anniversary Over Dinner In The Languedoc-Roussillon, France I launched my blog about 4 years ago, 11-8-2009.  In my wildest dreams, I never expected to attract so many loyal readers nor did I realize how much I would enjoy blogging.  I so wish new readers could start at the beginning because I’ve been writing […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Outcomes, disruptive technologies, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Reflections On Life, Simple Pleasures, Strategic HRMDS Planning, travel, Vendor Briefings/Demos, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

Do You Know How To Answer These HR Technology Questions?

Do You Know How To Answer These HR Technology Questions?

By Naomi Bloom on October 28, 2013

Carnac the Magnificent [ I published the original version of this post on 9-12-2011, just in time for the 2011 HR Technology Conference, and I did an updated edition for the 2012 conference.  I had planned to do another updated version for the 2013 HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas and the 2013 HR Tech Europe Conference in Amsterdam (which […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Bloom & Wallace Engagements, Debunking/Calling Out, Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HR Tech Conference, Strategic HRMDS Planning | 2 Responses

Impressions From HR Technology Conference 2012

Impressions From HR Technology Conference 2012

By Naomi Bloom on October 18, 2012

I’ve just reread my observations from last year’s conference, and you should too.  If I say so myself, it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of what was happening then, much of which is still happening but which is much farther along, at least in some (but by no means all) vendor products and some end-user organizations.  Rather […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aging, Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HR Tech Conference, HRM/IT Intersection, Licensed/On-Premise Software, SaaS, Strategic HRM, Strategic HRMDS Planning, talent management

Reprise In Time For #HRTechConf: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

Reprise In Time For #HRTechConf: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

By Naomi Bloom on October 5, 2012

[I posted the original version of this on 9-12-2011, just in time for last year’s HR Technology Conference.  Now here we are again, in frantic last minute preparations, but so wanting to be sure that our conference plans are focused on the important HRM delivery system issues that we’re facing.  So I thought it was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Bloom & Wallace Engagements, Debunking/Calling Out, Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech Conference, HRMDS, HRO, Strategic HRMDS Planning | 1 Response

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

By Naomi Bloom on August 20, 2012

[I wrote this post in June, 2010, just when Al and Tipper Gore had announced their separation mid-2010, at a time when true SaaS InFullBloom was in its infancy.  I was spending a ton of time with a wide range of vendors, some licensees of my “Starter Kit,” working hard on the next generation of […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, Business Outcomes, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM Software, Ruminations, Strategic HRMDS Planning

Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics

Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics

By Naomi Bloom on March 27, 2012

[I published a post addressing this topic right after I launched my blog 11/9/2009, and I never expected to address this topic again.  Surely by now, I would have thought that we’d have broad agreement on how to measure the impact of HRM on business outcomes.  But I had few readers in the beginning, and there’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Outcomes, Employment, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM, HRM/IT Intersection, Human resource management, Human resources, Metrics/Analytics, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?

By Naomi Bloom on September 12, 2011

Dr. Naomi Is In! Unlike my good friend Ray Wang, there are no Naomi clones.  Just this solo consultant trying to save the world from bad HRM and HRM delivery systems.   And while I’m a pretty productive and hard worker, there aren’t enough hours in a lifetime to support every HR exec who comes calling with their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech Conference, HRMDS, HRO, Human Resource, Human resource management, Outsourcing, Strategic HRMDS Planning, talent management, workday | 2 Responses

Bloom & Wallace Release 2011

Bloom & Wallace Release 2011

By Naomi Bloom on November 5, 2010

These projects took 6-9 months, with me working intensively with a carefully selected client team led by an HR executive, and with a steering committee that always included senior line executives as well as the CFO and CIO which was chaired by the senior most HR executive.  Hewlett-Packard, International Paper, Bank of America, ALCOA, Metropolitan Life, Reynolds Metals, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aging, best practices, Change Management, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM/IT Intersection, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Resolutions | 1 Response

Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

By Naomi Bloom on June 14, 2010

Two completely unrelated conversations over the last week caused that ding ding thing in my brain that happens when the dots connect themselves and I have an aha moment. One of those discussions took place on a radio talk show I heard while driving to a meeting. The other was a courtesy call with the HR and IT heads…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged al gore, best practices, Business Outcomes, Divorce, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM Software, Marriage, Ruminations, Strategic HRMDS Planning

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