April 13, 2010 HRExaminer v1.14
HRNX from HR Integrations | Feature Review
New software, systems and the internet have done much to unlock isolated data islands in HR departments. While disparate HR information is scattered across corporate and HR databases, outsourced tools and web based information resources, the systems still don’t talk to each other.
In the past this led to massive data integration efforts in order to enable meaningful information analysis.
A few years ago a second generation of web 2.0 data ‘mashup’ tools ushered in quick development times and lower costs and today those tools and thinking have evolved into specialty mashup tools like HRNX, the feature of this week’s HRExaminer. It’s good stuff.
Less Glam – More Margin | In the Know
Many executives are obsessed with innovation whether or not it actually makes sense in their particular case. There are two possible approaches: to innovate or to practice continuous improvement. Scott Berkun, one of the fast rising new stars of management consulting suggests a third way… simply making good stuff. Less glamor, more margin.
We’ve got lots of other great knowledge to share in this week’s In the Know column, including:
– The Organization Is Alive
– When Online Communities Go To Work
– The Shirky Principle
– A Fundamental Shift in Talent Management: Will “Active Job Security” Replace “Passive Job Security”?
– The Information Society and The Information Economy
– Beware of Vanity Metrics
– The Power of the First Follower
Other Highlights
The Winners of our Blank Slate Challenge are highlighted and we’ve got a couple of great stories from our vaults that might help you remember some important points on e-recruiting and employment website etiquette that you can use today.
We round out this week’s HRExaminer with a Top 100 Influencer profile of RD Whitney, who over the course of a two decade career, has mastered the art of building online community and making it possible. RD ‘follows the money’ and has a unique capacity for identifying leverage and opportunity. He says of himself, “I connect the dots and find the opportunities”.
Have a wonderful week.
– John
