WealthHabit: New Architecture of Work VII

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
WealthHabit: Embedded Learning and Quantification: The New Architecture of Work IV A significant portion of the workforce is underwater on their houses (11Million), behind on their monthly payments, drowning in college debt, subsidizing other family members or simply recovering from bad habits with credit cards. Financial stress absorbs time and attention during the workday (particular […]
 

The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club

Topics: Big Data, HR Scoop, HR Technology, John Sumser, by John Sumser
The Shifting Landscape: IBM Joins Buyers’ Club I want to start by trying to enumerate my biases on this one. I’ve gotten to know the management team at Kenexa over the past couple of years at Analyst confabs and industry events. Prior to that, I was on the Board of Directors at Salary.com when we […]
 

HRExaminer v.3.34

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, Weekly, by John Sumser
So far, our various looks at influence have had a hard time getting beyond attributes of popularity. Influence is much more than that. Sometimes, the only way to see influence is by watching the things or people that are being influenced.
 

Employment Branding in 50 Tweets

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
We asked the Twittersphere three questions about Employment Branding and got back a truck load of responses. The result? Employment Branding in 50 tweets.
 

Top 25 Trendspotters in HR

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
So far, our various looks at influence have had a hard time getting beyond attributes of popularity. Influence is much more than that. Sometimes, the only way to see influence is by watching the things or people that are being influenced. With this month’s Trendsetters list, we wanted to track how ideas move through social media, how that movement changes over time, and who are the people pushing the ideas out into the flow in HR. Read the full analysis and see who is Trendspotting in HR.
 

Why Isn’t Recruiting Fun for Everyone?

Topics: HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
It’s easy to build an organization of rules embedded in software. While the rules ensure consistency, they are the enemy of innovation. This is the answer to the question "Where is the innovation in Recruiting?"
 

HRExaminer v.3.33

There’s a lot of engagement snake oil being sold around our industry. While there is some interesting academic work that shows the possibility of broad based team synergies to turbocharge organizational performance, most engaement projects are designed to improve scores on employee satisfaction surveys. Most engagement projects are really fancy happiness pills.
 

The New Architecture of Work VI: Learning Technology

Topics: HR Technology, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Things are changing very rapidly. Moore’s law, the stubborn force beneath the reinvention of the planet, continues its relentless doubling. As learners, we need to know how to figure out what to learn and how to learn it.
 

Engagement: Voodoo and Vision

Topics: HR Scoop, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
Industry stalwarts cry that if practitioners would only do this right, they’d get better results. That’s what academics do when their ideas perform well in the lab but go feral in the wild.
 

The New Architecture of Work IV: Agile Technology

Topics: HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
There are plenty of situations where that’s simply not possible. Sometimes, the situation is that you can’t plan ahead. That’s where agile approaches shine.