I’ve been reading some articles that question the influx of technology into HR. The general idea is that technology dehumanizes the personal touch that HR leaders are keen to have. Somewhere along the line, we’ve become so obsessed to make HR service delivery as cost-efficient as possible that we’ve overlooked the employee experience. And that means we’re missing out on…
Category: Technology
HRTechEurope: less US, more Europe please
Two weeks ago, I attended HRTechEurope. Marc Coleman and his team have done a wonderful job getting this event off the ground and I enjoyed myself tremendously. Interesting seminars, lots of new technology and eminent speakers. But just like last year, some of the sessions left me feeling a bit, well, disappointed, especially when I listen to US analysts discussing…
5 Things I learned while Going Google
From July 15 to August 15 2013 I carried out my Google Experiment: I wanted to see if I could move completely to the cloud. At the end of my trial period, I have come to the conclusion that it worked out better than I thought. Some days I was able to accomplish everything in the cloud. But I also…
The Google Experiment: One Today
From July 15 to August 15 my experiment is to work completely in the cloud, and I’ll be using Google Apps for my daily tasks as much as possible. My colleagues challenged me to put some “skin in the game” so here it is: For every day that I don’t achieve my goal, I am donating $5 to Google One…
The changing face of HR
Last year’s white paper “The consumerization of HR” led to a number of invitations from customers and others to share my ideas during keynotes and workshops. It’s been great being able to hear what others think of it. The accompanying presentation is called “The changing face of HR”. I uploaded a short version of this presentation to SlideShare. Please feel…
The Google Experiment: Day Six
I was all set to write a daily blog post about my switch to Google Apps also knows as #theGoogleExperience. Turns out, there’s nothing more to say. And since I don’t like reading blogs about ‘nothing’ I won’t continue with the daily updates as I don’t intend to bore my readers. I have completely switched to Google for all of…
The Google Experiment: Day Five
The Google One Today Fund receives another donation today and the reason for that is the same as earlier this week: I received a password protected Excel file that I could not open with Google Apps. This is getting annoying, so I am going to spend some time this weekend researching the issue to find out if someone has invented…
The Google Experiment: Day Four
I’m almost embarrassed to mention that the Google One Today Fund won’t be receiving a donation today and it’s not because I spent most of my day in meetings. On the contrary, today was a quiet day which gave me a lot of time to catch up on outstanding emails, requests and other activities. The one thing I did today,…
The Google Experiment: Day Three
I’ve just finished day 3 of my Google Experiment and I’m really getting the hang of this. I realize this is not good news for the One Today fund, but today was another ‘Cloud only’ day even though I did not have a lot of meetings. I’m still struggling with the amount of MS Office files that I receive, but…
The Google Experiment: Day Two
Today I realized that this cliche is very true: “old habits die hard” and that getting used to a new system also means letting go of a lot of automatic actions, that I repeat so frequently on a daily base that I don’t even think about it anymore. So yes, today the Google One Fund receives its first donation. I…
The Google Experiment: Day One
So today was the first day of my Google Experiment where I live completely in the cloud and not use any local applications. And so far so good – which I did not expect this morning. I returned from my annual leave, so I spent most of my day in meetings and catching up on emails in Google mail. I’ve…
Guest blog: Cloud is Talent Management, ERP is Core HR
Recently I published a blog titled Cloud is Good, ERP is bad, which got quite some attention. @lukemarson left a well-written comment centered around the premise there is much added-value for moving Talent into the Cloud. We exchanged our views on this topic and he promised to think about writing a talent management reply. I am happy to say that…