Josh Bersin
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
Our soon to be published research on corporate L&D spending in 2008 shows a definite slowdown in spending on corporate training. (An 11% drop!) This is certainly not a surprise – in August our research panel shows that today’s corporate talent managers cite “a need to reduce costs” as their #1 business challenge (54% of.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
The Boston KM Forum topic this evening was Tag Me! Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise , a talk by Laurie Damianos of MITRE ( an interview with her at CMU ). Going into the talk, the most interesting thing to me is Laurie's title: she's a Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Can I get that job? Why social bookmarking in the enterprise? MITRE started this project in 2005, when the concept was just blooming from the public web.
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Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Me? I'm a fan of transparency, efficiency and as little paperwork as possible. It seems the school system tries to be opaque, mind-numbingly slow and filled with paper. As I navigated the system, I started to think "this is why people hate HR," because as much as I love letting people know what's going on, I know not all HR departments are like that.
Reviewsnap
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
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Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
I am very curious about how you handle performance management issues. I would love to read your comments on any of the following 6 questions: How do you make sure your employees receive feedback? How do you feel about giving feedback? What challenges do you have with feedback? When was the last time you received a formal performance review? Was it helpful?
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Josh Bersin
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
One of the things we regularly do as an analyst firm is estimate the size and growth rate of various corporate software markets. Without giving away our proprietary methodology, I’d like to point out something which should make software providers think twice about their business strategy. In the United States, only 38% of all employees. Read more» The post Where is the Market for HR Software?
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Sigurd Rinde has a piece on the purpose of information technology that rings a bell for me. A quote from the close of Teaching how to fish - IT's ultimate purpose should do the trick: IT today is mostly built so as to satisfy your craving for yesteryear's menu, don't get caught by the lure of that. Request that IT shall open new doors and new ways - IT should allow you to learn to fish.
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I've been tapped to choose an important service provider for our small business. In taking bids, I've discovered that one of the bidders may have run afoul of the law in another state, but likely settled without any criminal charges (a white collar crime). I learned this from a competing bidder, but believe it to be true. I know this person, and have worked with them before in another business (the incident was a few years before that, evidently).
Reviewsnap
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
'Some managers and owners make excuses when their businesses or operating units don''t perform as expected. While there are extenuating circumstances that can affect bottom line results, the reasons for underperforming generally lie in ineffective management. Too often we hear managers rationalizing poor decisions or inaction. In cases where the expectations were unreasonable or a crucual and unforeseen event occurred, a manager has a valid argument as to why performance fell short of expectatio
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Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
I am re-publishing this post. It was a special post because it had an impact. This post was very important to me as Galba Bright, who died this year in March, and was one of the most wonderful bloggers really enjoyed the “belly laugh&# he got from this article. It is not always what we write as bloggers it is the impact we have on others. Galba, I will miss your blogging and I hope you are laughing wherever you are!
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
I haven't linked to Lilia Efimova in a while, but she continues to write about her PhD process and say things that I think have to do with the larger questions of how people work together (one element being knowledge management). In her recent blog post, Bloggers as public intellectuals and writing about them in a research report , she talks about the situation of doing research with people who are vested in the research topic themselves.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
InnovationWell are doing another event at Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia) on 13 October The Push and Pull of Knowledge Management in R&D : Knowledge Management in the pharmaceutical industry has been undergoing a transition over the past 5-10 years. With recent changes occurring in the industry, shifts in the research focus at both large pharmaceuticals and small-mid size pharmaceuticals and biotechs are becoming more common.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Brad Hinton has an item On customer experience for information and knowledge projects. This is a telling example of the opposite of what we'd like to see: I was talking yesterday afternoon with a professional colleague lamenting the difficulties of information management implementations. He was asking (rhetorically) why it was so difficult to get implementations to work when the project plan and methodology had been so carefully worked out.
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Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Pumacy Technologies AG are doing a study of Knowledge Management Blogs. It's not completely clear what all they are doing. This particular report provides a ranking of 50+ blogs in the KM arena for the month of August 2008. Interesting to see the combination of activity and Google PageRank / Alexa ranking. There are some blogs in the top rankings with little activity in August.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
I came across Why is it so hard to get smart people to share? from Gia Lyons via a mention on the actKM mailing list. She covers some of the common downsides to attempting brain dumps from experts. Her notes reflect many of the conversations on this topic. There is a brigade charge underway to capture the wisdom (knowledge + experience) of the retiring corporate crowd.
Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
After nearly 2 weeks, and 25 comments, and asking all you smart people what you would hire for, Attitude or Experience , here’s what I learned from you: Experience wins…. If you’re hiring for a specific skill set, like a doctor, or a computer programmer. If you’re hiring for something short term (though this can and often is contracted out).
Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
David at 54, Where Are You? by David Zinger. I turned 54 yesterday. I know that is old for a blogger but blogging is part of what keeps me young. Here are a few random things that I have learned: If it is to be it is up to we…community and connection are keys. You can have gray hair but a “green&# (growing) mind. Nothing lasts, long live the Buddhist concept of impermanence.
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Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
The Kent State University program on Information Architecture and Knowledge Management has announced a new professorship, sponsored by Goodyear: IAKM Accepting Applications for Goodyear Professor Position. The School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University is pleased to announce the creation of the distinguished Goodyear Professorship in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management.
Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Dawn Foster of Fast Wonder Consulting recently posted a really useful, practical discussion of different types of structures for corporate communities. She puts corporate communities into three categories: emergent, highly structured, and adaptive. Emergent Approach: Community has little or no structure at launch, and a structure emerges over time. Highly Structured Approach: Communities have a detailed, thought-through taxonomy at time of launch.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Seth Grimes talks about the claim that "80% of business-related information resides in unstructured form, primarily text." I remember this being an important element of discussions of information management (and into knowledge management) as I was getting into the topic. BridgePoint Experts' Corner: Unstructured Data and the 80 Percent Rule. [snip] It does seem obvious that a very high proportion of data is unstructured: How much of your workday is spent reading or writing e-mails, reports, or a
Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Frequent commenter CK shared a response to 5 Ways to Improve Employee Morale that gave me pause. As a manager, I hope I don’t fall into the pit of despair CK’s management team has fallen into. Job Fit - Get the person management wants (or recommended by the buddy system) and train them how to do the job they are hired to do. And if that doesn’t work out, hire a contractor to do the job and the employee to boss the contractor around.
Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow
The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.
Knowledge Musings
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
That title has several interpretations, depending on punctuation and tone of voice. Will I finally be discussing planning instead of something else? Or maybe I am planning to do something new? Or. This time it has to do with an article I came across (via Twitter?) that provides Jay Deragon and socialutions ' perspective on preparing for implementing social networks.
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
The Carnival of HR has a new home ! Yeah! All the updates and info you need is over there. Ask A Manager has taken over the responsibility of tracking and guiding the carnival. She's awesome. Party on!
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
The Carnival of HR has a new home ! Yeah! All the updates and info you need is over there. Ask A Manager has taken over the responsibility of tracking and guiding the carnival. She's awesome. Party on!
Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
I blog a lot about the importance of in-the-flow collaboration: the idea that organizations adopt collaborative tools only when those tools are integrated into the flow of daily work. That idea resonates with a lot of readers, but so far I haven't said very much about how to do it. The other day, I saw a really great example of an in-the-flow collaborative tool at Acumen Fund.
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Transparent Office
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Management =. by David Zinger. Management is complex yet it helps to get a short handle of what we mean by management. Management seems to mean different things to different people. Here is your challenge. Write the one word that you believe is the best synonym for management. Management = _. I await your one word comment. No need to explain or elaborate.
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
This week, I had an employee come to me and complain about other employees not washing their hands after using the bathroom. They wanted me to put up signs telling people they need to wash their hands before returning to work. Needless to say, I do NOT work at a McDonald's. My (rhetorical) question is this: does putting up a sign telling people to do something or not do something actually work??
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
This week, I had an employee come to me and complain about other employees not washing their hands after using the bathroom. They wanted me to put up signs telling people they need to wash their hands before returning to work. Needless to say, I do NOT work at a McDonald's. My (rhetorical) question is this: does putting up a sign telling people to do something or not do something actually work??
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