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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

Even Successful Products Deserve A Sunset Plan

Even Successful Products Deserve A Sunset Plan

By Naomi Bloom on March 5, 2012

The End Of An Era Is Near [Disclosure:  This is part memoir and part advertorial, where the advertiser is Bloom & Wallace.] If you’ve been wondering about the long delay since my last blog post, read on to learn about one project on which I’ve been working.  That project has been to finalize the sunset plan for my […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged best practices, HRM/IT Intersection, HRMDS, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, Strategic HRM

Eight Characteristics Of Effective HRM And HRM Delivery Systems

Eight Characteristics Of Effective HRM And HRM Delivery Systems

By Naomi Bloom on December 5, 2011

In my last post, I told some all too typical business stories in which it was easy to recognize, in situ, really bad HRM policies and practices, HRM service delivery and HR technology use.  Every manager has their own favorite such tales of woe, and my HR practitioner colleagues are awash in the fallout from such […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged "Killer" HRMDS Scenarios, best practices, Business Outcomes, HRM, HRM Software, HRMDS, KSAOCs, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, Strategic HRM | 2 Responses

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

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

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

By Naomi Bloom on November 8, 2010

Of the many reasons cited for outsourcing one or more HRM business processes as well as for making investments in HRM software, none is more susceptible to marketing hype than that outsourcing providers and software vendors deliver “best” practices in HRM.  The best HRM software, “out of the box,” may certainly deliver some good practices in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged "Killer" HRMDS Scenarios, BPO, Business Outcomes, Debunking/Calling Out, HR Tech, HRM Software, HRMDS, HRO, Strategic HRM | 1 Response

The Future Of HRM Software:  Embedded Intelligence

The Future Of HRM Software: Embedded Intelligence

By Naomi Bloom on June 22, 2010

Hi, I’m Naomi, your friendly HRM consultant There’s an easy way to describe what I mean by embedded intelligence.  Conjure up a memory of the best, most knowledgeable, most effectively consultative and strategic thinking HR leader you’ve ever known.  Now conjure up a memory of that master of regulatory options and obligations, that HR administrator who […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged databases, enterprise software, HRM Software, HRMDS, Human resources, Organizational culture, Preferred Behaviors, Strategic HRM

The Future Of HRM Software: Effective Dating

The Future Of HRM Software: Effective Dating

By Naomi Bloom on April 23, 2010

Tempus Fugit! Did you think this was going to be a guide to finding the man/woman of your dreams?  Wrong! If you ask any HRM software vendor or BPO provider if their software is effective-dated, the universal response will be yes.  And they’re telling the truth.  Even the sorriest HRM software allows for the effective-dating […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged dating, enterprise software, HRM Software, HRMDS, Open source, Preferred Behaviors, Programming, Web service

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part IV/Finale: The HRM Delivery System!

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part IV/Finale: The HRM Delivery System!

By Naomi Bloom on April 5, 2010

If you feel like you’ve been stranded along the way or that we’ve (or you’ve) been off on various scenic detours, my apologies for not providing the final installment of our Yellow Brick Road travelogue as quickly as I had hoped.  Life just keeps happening; we keep up as best we can. When last we […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPO, Business Outcomes, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HRMDS, Human resource management, Human resources, Outsourcing, project management, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Yellow Brick Road

M&A Observations: NorthgateArinso Acquires Convergys’ HRO Business

M&A Observations: NorthgateArinso Acquires Convergys’ HRO Business

By Naomi Bloom on March 31, 2010

There’s been a lot of commentary on this deal, so well may you ask what more there is to say.  But just like with the Workday 10 release on which I just posted, I think there are several aspects of the NorthgateArinso/Convergys HRO deal that deserve further attention.  Against a backdrop of why Convergys HRO failed and what that failure […]

Posted in Business | Tagged BPO, business process outsourcing, Change Management, HRMDS, HRO, Human resources, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, NorthgateArinso, PeopleSoft, SaaS, sap | 2 Responses

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part II: Vision, Strategy And Outcomes

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Part II: Vision, Strategy And Outcomes

By Naomi Bloom on March 1, 2010

In Part I of our journey down the yellow brick road to great HRM and HRM delivery systems, I set the stage in terms of the environment in which our organizations must operate and what they must do to be successful.  By now you should have decided for your own organization – or will do this […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPO, Business process, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HRM, HRM Software, HRMDS, Human resources, Metrics/Analytics, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Strategic planning, Yellow Brick Road

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