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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

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — What Impresses Me

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — What Impresses Me

By Naomi Bloom on April 8, 2013

Show Me The Money! [After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Capability Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Capability Matters

By Naomi Bloom on April 3, 2013

[After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my current thinking about this […]

Posted in Business | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Strategy Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Strategy Matters

By Naomi Bloom on April 1, 2013

Happy Pesach!  And for those of you with a few minutes to spare, this video from http://www.maccabeats.com will get you into the right mood.  For those of you who celebrate Pesach, and for those of you who don’t, my personal prayer is that every form of slavery, from physical to economic to psychological, will be wiped out […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos

Reprise — How I Evaluate Vendors/Products — Ambition Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate Vendors/Products — Ambition Matters

By Naomi Bloom on March 18, 2013

Show Me The Money! [After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my current […]

Posted in Business | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos | 1 Response

Prepping For A Week In Silicon Valley

Prepping For A Week In Silicon Valley

By Naomi Bloom on June 20, 2012

San Francisco Bay Area — #EnSW Heaven

I try to spend a week every year in Silicon Valley, meeting with vendors, catching up with colleagues, soaking up the atmosphere and drinking the very special water.  On this year’s agenda are Cornerstone OnDemand (with a huge thanks for coming to the Valley), SAP and SuccessFactors, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Enterprise Irregulars, enterprise software, HRM Software, travel, Vendor Briefings/Demos

The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt

The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt

By Naomi Bloom on November 16, 2011

I spent a very intense week last July in Silicon Valley meeting mostly full days each with Workday, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Saba and SAP, and would like to start this post with a huge and very public thank you to all of these vendors for their time, their preparations, and their hospitality.  I’ve also been doing […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged "Killer" HRMDS Scenarios, Debunking/Calling Out, HRM Software, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, talent management, technical debt, Vendor Briefings/Demos

Impressions From HR Technology Conference 2011

Impressions From HR Technology Conference 2011

By Naomi Bloom on October 10, 2011

Ooooogah! Oooooogah! I’m exhausted but energized, if it’s actually possible to be in both states at once.  I’ll leave it to others to do both the play by play and color commentary, neither of which is my forte.  But I do want to summarize my key learnings in case they’re useful for others. I also […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged disruptive technologies, enterprise software, HR Tech Conference, HRM Software, KSAOCs, Licensed/On-Premise Software, Models/Modeling, Naomi's Speaking Engagements, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, Social Technology, Vendor Briefings/Demos | 1 Response

HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?

HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — What Impresses Me?

By Naomi Bloom on May 3, 2011

  How The Hell Should I Know What Software Is Best? Here’s another post that I had meant to write much sooner, but now it will post while we’re in Monaco before the start of our cruise up the Rhone River.  I’m going to try to do some tweeting/posting from the “road,” always hopeful that […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged best practices, Human resource management, Human resources, SaaS, software as a service, Vendor Briefings/Demos

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