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Unbundling HCM

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:00:18 +0000

The tides are shifting on the age-old question for Human Capital Management (HCM): Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Suite versus Best-of-Breed (BOB). The 1980’s movement toward a single vendor, single platform ERP system is altering its course toward modern, agile, single function, fully integrated systems. This change is being enabled with the growth [...]

Jeitocast with Steve Parker - How can HR achieve efficiency and effectiveness through Shared Services?

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:47:28 +0000

In this month’s Jeitocast Karen Beaman interviews Steve Parker on how HR Shared Services can help achieve greater efficiencies and effectiveness. Steve talks about how it’s important to realize that not every high-volume, transaction-based activity is necessarily a good candidate to move into a shared services group. The most effective use of the HR Shared [...]

Technology and Tennis

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00:36 +0000

Vinnie Mirchandani from Deal Architect is doing a series on the impact that technology has had/is having on hobbies and asked me to participate. You can read my take on technology and tennis here, as well as many other great posts such as the impact of technology of sailing, basketball, wine and beer [...]

Ada Lovelace and Row Henson

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:25:17 +0000

Today is Ada Lovelace Day and I’m joining bloggers across the world to write a post about a person I admire in Technology. But first, here are a few words about Ada Lovelace, who is considered to be the first woman in technology: “Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) is often referred to as the world’s first [...]

HR and the Human Genome

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:10 +0000

A colleague forwarded this interesting presentation on to me by Linda Avey of 23andme about the work being done on mapping the human genome: “With the advent of the Human Genome Project came the birth of a new term and lifestyle: personalized medicine, which promises to provide better care by analyzing the genetic basis of a [...]

Making Things Work

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:00:02 +0000

In these difficult economic times, companies are continuing to look for ways to reduce costs and keep the workforce engaged in spite of layoffs all around us. Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies is clearly one solution that addresses both of these issues. McKinsey has just published a great article on “Six Ways to Make Web 2.0. [...]

Jeitocast with Don Harris - What is a global data privacy policy?

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:57:18 +0000

In this Jeitocast Karen Beaman interviews Dr. Donald Harris, renowned data privacy expert, on the question of what is a global data privacy policy and why a company needs one. There are 40+ countries around the world with comprehensive privacy laws. Without a data privacy policy in place to ensure compliance with these [...]

Software-as-a-Service: The HCM Perspective

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:24:18 +0000

Not since the appearance of Client/Server technology in the early 1990s has the Human Resource (HR) business community experienced such marketing hype surrounding a new technology as we have seen recently with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). From an IT perspective SaaS is a distributed computing solution and from a business perspective it is a hosted application delivery [...]

HR and Payroll in Russia

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:00:39 +0000

I recently had the pleasure to meet Professors Andrey G. Medvedev (Professor of Corporate Finance and International Business) and Tatyana Kovalyova (Director for Corporate Programmes and Associate Professor of the General Management and HR Management Chair) of the International Management Institute of St Petersburg (IMISP) in their home town of St. Petersburg, Russia (Prof. Medvedev [...]

Multi-Locality and Management

admin@jeitosa.com (Jeitosa Group International) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:00:32 +0000

What does “Multi-Locality” mean for the manager of a team in the modern, multi-local environment? According to Josh Bersin “driving a performance-oriented culture demands a focus on new compensation models, improved forms of collaboration, and the development of clear goals-based performance management processes.” How does this apply to the multi-local talentforce? First, we need to [...]