Many organizations striving to be perceived as a ‘Great Place to Work’ consider leveraging retention as a metric to assess their success. While a common practice, organizations often leverage it incorrectly. Let’s walk through a few of the pitfalls in using retention metrics and get to some meaningful ways to assess if your workforce wants
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Read More...Given the massive popularity of virtualization/VMMs/hypervisors in enterprise datacenters, this article by Gartner’s Neil MacDonald struck a chord with me. Like Neil, I have always been wary of the relative security of hypervisors and their ability to remain truly secure/hardened: A breach of the virtualization platform which results in an escape to the hypervisor represents
Read More...On Fridays, I normally post a brief and usually pointless anecdote, followed by some interesting links I culled during the week. I’m not going to do that today. Today is about a video. It was shot by Kristian Anderson of Sydney, Australia. Kristian is 34 years old. He’s a happily married husband and father of
Read More...We’re pleased to announce that we have been asked by the City of Fort Worth to assess and provide recommendations regarding the city’s ERP system as it transitions to a new payroll application. From the Star-Telegram: Fort Worth officials are confident that an abundance of overtime shifts during Super Bowl week will not create any
Read More...At a recent Human Capital Management Institute seminar on Strategic Workforce Planning, there was a break from the main topic with a guest speaker who addressed the urgent need for companies to develop sustainability initiatives. Observing the HR professionals in the room during this presentation I saw the audience go from mildly interested to completely
Read More...As IBM celebrates its 100th year in business, it’s worth watching this 30-minute film by Errol Morris (music by Philip Glass) on the company’s history and impact on society and business. They Were There: People who changed the way the world works. (via kottke) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft
Read More...Nine months ago, on a grey Spring morning, I got my iPad delivered to me by special Saturday FedEx. I was one of countless geeks across the USA blowing an entire weekend waiting for — and then using maniacally — what many were calling ‘an oversized iPhone.’ The FedEx driver thought I was nuts. She
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