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Technology Trends |
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Talent Management/
Workforce Planning Buyer’s Guide
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April/May 2009 US$10.00 |
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A Publication of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management • www.ihrim.org |
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| Departments |
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Bettina Rodriguez Flick, Meta4
Department Editor |
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| Up.link |
| Yvette Cameron, SAP |
| Guest Editor |
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| In My Opinion |
| What HR Really Needs from Technology is Insight! |
| By Wes Wu, SystematicHR |
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| Functional Focus |
| Engineering Strategic Change |
| By Manel Pérez Jordana, Gallina Blanca Star |
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| Executive Corner |
Employee Referrals: Pot of Gold or Lead Weight?
Only Your Data Knows! |
| By Jeff Higgins & William Gilmyers, Infohrm |
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| Private Eye |
| A New Look at Security for the Virtual Office |
| By Carl Bennett, CISSP, Application Outfitters |
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| Tech Notes |
| Single Sign-On: Relieving the Frustration |
| By Steve Secora, Kerry Ingredients and Flavours |
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| New in the Market |
| Symplified |
| An Interview with Eric Olden, founder and CEO. |
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| In Review |
| HR Frontiers: Shifting Borders and Changing Boundaries |
| A book review by Marcia Barkley, CedarCrestone |
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| The Back Page |
| A Wrinkle in Time |
| By Elliott Witkin, Ultimate Software |
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| FEATURES |
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Broccoli and Ice Cream:
Balancing Discipline and Innovation |
| By Thomas Otter, Gartner |
| Human resources leaders and the technologies that support them are facing complex issues. The demands of organizations under pressure are creating new challenges for HR and HR technologies. Discipline, control and efficiency, seemingly so out of vogue a short while ago, are the new must haves. Balancing these with the potential to innovate will not be easy, but those that do will emerge stronger and more agile. |
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| Social Networking in an Accelerating World |
| By Greg Thompson, SuccessFactors |
| Today, social networking is a burgeoning area that brings with it demonstrated highimpact results for the business, as well as for the individuals associated with that business. Forward-thinking solution providers are bringing together HR applications with social networking and collaboration to deliver capabilities and experiences heretofore unimagined in the context of daily business activities. |
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| Watching IT Clouds take Shape |
| By Jeff Barnard, EMC |
| In the world of IT hyperspeak, “cloud” has now overtaken “Web 2.0” as the latest industry buzzword. Web 2.0 enables human collaboration; cloud computing will allow application collaboration when humans introduce application services to each other. It gives companies fast, flexible and cost effective deployment choices for IT services. Cloud computing will change how the world gets things done. |
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Intelligent HR Software:
The Power of Planning Ahead |
| By José Luis Tamargo, Meta4 |
| If we know how to make the most of intelligent HR software tools, we will gain enormous competitive advantage in our ability to recruit the people we need, in our efforts to retain them, and in our capacity for adapting to organizational and market changes. The main mission for these software tools is to properly align decision support processes in human resources activities with organizational objectives. |
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| Strategy First, Technology Second! |
| By Michael Carden, Sonar6 |
| The driver behind implementing technology for most organizations is to experience greater efficiency, improved processes and better business results. A talent management system, combined with solid foundational strategies including common terminology definitions, fosters better decisions around people and enables companies to spur real behavioral changes and do a better job of retaining high performers. |
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