How To Be A World-Leading Publisher In A Digital World
In the summer, one of my favorite things to do is lay on the warm beach, sun beating down on my back, reading a good book. To me, there’s nothing better than losing track of reality for a couple hours...
View ArticleWho Is Your Socrates In Your Organization?
The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates didn’t leave any writings, but his thoughts left an eternal echo. We know from his students, one of whom was Plato, that Socrates challenged and provoked people...
View ArticleMillennials Aren’t The Only Ones: 4 Factors All Employees Want
This is the first in a three-part blog series exploring how businesses can adapt to a Millennial workforce. Over the course of the next three blogs, we will explore how employee engagement,...
View ArticleDon’t Give Learned Helplessness A Chance
A paralyzing virus is lurking within many organizations, and it is solely responsible for countless failed transformations. It answers to the name “learned helplessness.” Learned helplessness is not a...
View Article7 Criteria To Compare Cloud-Based HCM Vendors [VIDEO]
Ask any third-party expert which cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software to buy, and the typical response is “it depends.” That may be true, but human resources (HR) is undergoing the most...
View ArticleMillennials Aren’t The Only Ones: 4 Factors All Employees Want, Part 3
In the first part of this blog, we discussed the purpose of adapting to a Millennial workforce and the role of culture. In Part 2, we explored the importance of engaging and empowering employees, no...
View ArticleBig, Bad Data: How Talent Analytics Will Make It Work In HR
Here’s a mind-blowing fact: Research from IBM shows that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. I find this fascinating. Which means that companies have access...
View ArticleAESO Saves $6M By Making HR A Strategic Business Imperative
Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is a small organization with a large mandate: keeping the lights on across Alberta, Canada. AESO provides access to the province’s electricity grid, which totals...
View ArticleHappiness As A Corporate [VIDEO]
I just finished the book Op naar geluk, by Ap Dijksterhuis, in which the author states that we are 50% in charge of your own happiness. Well… if it only was 1%, then it would still be worth sharing a...
View ArticleHow To Get Sh*t Done
Got your New Year’s Resolutions set? How about your company targets? Setting them is the easy part — materializing is harder. And yet there is only one critical skill that you need. It’s a skill that...
View ArticleThe Impact Of HR On Customer Delight
What is the purpose of Human Resource Management? Is it to administrate brains, send them letters, and pay them? Or is it to connect brains, drive innovation, and delight customers? The answer is both....
View ArticleDigital To The Core: Human Experience Fuels Digital Transformation
Companies that stand out as digitally progressive aren’t necessarily technophiles or spendthrifts. In reality, technology accounts for only one (though important) part of the digital transformation...
View ArticleFrom Performance Management To Feedback Culture [VIDEO]
The purpose of a business is to create customers. Sharper performance results in more and happier customers Thus… we aim to optimize performance, hence the business term “performance management.”...
View ArticleJoining The People Analytics Revolution
Data is the fuel that will power the HR transformation engine. But although HR organizations have been talking about building analytics teams for years, the 2015 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends...
View ArticleDelivering On The New HR Mandate
HR has had a bad press in recent years: too bureaucratic, too administrative, not innovative enough. Indeed, Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends report concluded that HR needed an “extreme...
View ArticleUsing Technology To Move Business Beyond Bias
As the leader of a global cloud company running mission-critical applications globally for more than 4,500 clients and their more than 45 million users, I, like most executives, spend a lot of time...
View ArticleOn-Premise HR: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
When it comes to human capital management (HCM) processes, most human resource professionals understand the merits of moving to the cloud. After all, in today’s workplace, it’s all about using...
View ArticleThis Is How You Drive Innovations With HR
Bimodal people management might be the next stage for your HR department. A new chapter that takes HR on an exciting journey of exploration into uncharted territory of business transformation. A new...
View ArticlePursuing Digital Transformation? Don’t Leave Your Workers Behind
One of the most enduring and universal mantras chanted by corporate executives is, “our employees are our most valuable asset.” This pervasive perspective – self-evident though it may be – hasn’t...
View ArticleFintech Blows Up Industries, HCM Is Crucial Lever [VIDEO]
The dust is starting to settle on the initial wave of cloud-based HR transformation, and business is gearing up for the next quantum leap combining human capacity management (HCM) and finance,...
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