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Applications Integration — Core HR And Talent Management

Applications Integration — Core HR And Talent Management

By Naomi Bloom on December 2, 2014

There is a tremendous need for deep and robust integration between the traditional HRMS processes,
being built organically, on top of a common architecture and object model. The heyday for standalone talent management suites is over.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, HR Tech, HRM Software, Human resources, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, recruitment, talent management, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

Applications Integration — Financials And HR

Applications Integration — Financials And HR

By Naomi Bloom on January 8, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about both business and applications integration.  You may have read my modest rant on the bastardization of the term integration as used to describe how applications are connected.  You also may have seen my videocast comments on the reasons why I think that your HRMS and core talent management applications […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, integration, Metrics/Analytics, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

Modest Rant — Applications Integration By Any Other Name… Is Something Else

Modest Rant — Applications Integration By Any Other Name… Is Something Else

By Naomi Bloom on December 23, 2013

Painting The Roses Red Given the active discussion (debate?) over on LinkedIn about my proposed definition of true SaaS (now renamed “Blooming SaaS,” this post was intended to be more of an insistence on precise definitions than a disparagement of other business/deployment/architectural options in enterprise HRM software), I thought I’d rattle a few more cages.  In […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Blooming SaaS, Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, HR Tech, HRM Software, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, True SaaS, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

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

HRM Analytics  — Dashboards, Cockpits And Mission Control

HRM Analytics — Dashboards, Cockpits And Mission Control

By Naomi Bloom on May 20, 2013

[Many of you know that my husband, Ron Wallace, was a mission manager at NASA for international Search and Rescue Programs (official program name COSPAS/SARSAT) until he took early retirement in 1999 so that we could relocate to our present home in Fort Myers, FL.  We were both fascinated by all things spacey, and continue […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged HRM Software, Metrics/Analytics, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, Strategic HRM, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

InFullBloom’s 3rd Birthday — Here’s Where It All Started!

InFullBloom’s 3rd Birthday — Here’s Where It All Started!

By Naomi Bloom on November 8, 2012

Happy Birthday InFullBloom I launched my blog exactly 3 years ago, 11-8-2009.  In my wildest dreams, I never expected to attract so many loyal readers — there are now 10K+ of you — nor did I realize how much I would enjoy blogging.  So, with a huge shout-out to those of you who have encouraged […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Outcomes, HR Tech, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

Driving Business Outcomes — Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking On Analytics

Driving Business Outcomes — Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking On Analytics

By Naomi Bloom on April 30, 2012

The Yiddish Of My Youth Still Shapes My Thinking In a previous post, I focused on the most fundamental metrics for measuring the impact of changes in HRM, presumably intended as improvements, on revenues and profitability.  Hopefully, I succeeded in offering no-nonsense, strictly financial metrics.  Focusing on changes in revenues and profitability per agreed measures of workforce effort provides a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Metrics/Analytics, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

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

What’s True SaaS And Why The Hell Should Customers Care?

What’s True SaaS And Why The Hell Should Customers Care?

By Naomi Bloom on December 27, 2011

Why Buy The Cow? When I was barely into my teens, my mother’s (every mother’s of that era) version of the sex talk was captured in this expression:  “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”  This was long before birth control pills were invented, years before the “Summer of Love,” and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, enterprise software, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking | 3 Responses

#Consumerization, #Gamification and #Mechugasification

#Consumerization, #Gamification and #Mechugasification

By Naomi Bloom on October 23, 2011

Mechugas — Fun But Without Organizational Purpose I love the fact that enterprise software is becoming more like consumer software every day — more usable, more accessible, more obvious and discoverable functionality, more mobile/social/global, and with much more of the look and feel of the consumer Web sites I’ve come to know and love.  And […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Debunking/Calling Out, disruptive technologies, enterprise software, Vocabulary Shapes Our Thinking

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