Past Issues

In this Month’s Issue:

IHRIM News and Updates

Look Who's Hiring

Encryption in the Cloud

Developing HR Technology Skills for the 21st Century: The Importance of HRIS Education

The Recruiting Revolution: How Technology Is Transforming Talent Acquisition

The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies

Future of the Internet: Big Data

The 9 Secrets of Successful Project Initiation

Field Guide: Building a Business Case for Mobile Learning

IHRIM Publications - Don’t miss the next two issues of IHRIM’s Workforce Solutions Review focusing on  Change and stories from Practitioners!

Event Calendar

Thank you to Infor/Lawson for their sponsorship of IHRIM's July 18 Webinar, What to Do the Year BEFORE You Start a Talent Management Suite Implementation.  

Reminder: All IHRIM Webinars - and webinar recordings - are Complimentary to Members

August 15
Webinar - ABCs of Social Media  

September 19
Webinar: Content, Connections and Conversations: An overview and highlights of CORE, IHRIM's social community

October 23
IHRIM's 2012 Workforce Analytics Forum, Atlanta, GA

October 24
Advanced Staffing Analytics Course, Atlanta, GA

Coming in December: IHRIM's 2012 Global Forum Webinar Series

IHRIM’s HRIP Certification Program - Exam Options to Fit Your Schedule!
 All of our exam options provide you with the flexibility to take the exam at a date and time - and location - that best fits your schedule. Go to HRIP Certification for more information. 

IHRIM News and Updates

Encryption in the Cloud

Who is responsible for data protection in the cloud?

In our research we consider how encryption is used to ensure sensitive or confidential data is kept safe and secure when transferred to external-based cloud service providers. We believe these findings are important because they demonstrate the relationship between encryption and the preservation of a strong security posture in the cloud environment. As shown in this research, organizations with a relatively strong security posture are more likely to transfer sensitive or confidential information to the cloud.

Read the Ponemon Institute© Research Report  

Developing HR Technology Skills for the 21st Century: The Importance of HRIS Education   

By Richard D. Johnson, Ph.D., HRIP, Hal G. Gueutal, Ph.D. and Janet H. Marler, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY

What skills will be most valuable to HR professionals in the next few years? We interviewed three highly successful, technically sophisticated HR professionals at different career stages and in different types of organizations to get their perspectives. These included Roy Wood, a senior executive at HCL-AXON, Jeff Miller, a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, and Katie Garippa, an HR generalist with Time Warner Cable. Taken together, they provide an insightful perspective on the changing e-HR workplace. We briefly provide their answers to the question, “What skills, experience, or knowledge do you feel will be most important for HR technology professionals five years from today?”    

Read the reprint from the IHRIM April/May 2012 Workforce Solutions Review

The Recruiting Revolution: How Technology Is Transforming Talent Acquisition

We are living through an exciting era in technology development—the emergence of interactive, social media and virtual technologies whose business applications are not yet fully realized. While marketing professionals have been quick to embrace the potential of these technologies for product placement, branding and sales, HR and talent management professionals have approached them with a little more caution as they explore how interactive, social media and virtual world technologies can be effectively applied to attract talent to their organizations.  

Read the white paper from the MBA@UNC Career Management Team 

To learn more about social media, register for IHRIM's August 15 webinar: the ABC's of Social Media.

The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies

In a few short years, social technologies have given social interactions the speed and scale of the Internet. Whether discussing consumer products or organizing political movements, people around the world constantly use social-media platforms to seek and share information. Companies use them to reach consumers in new ways too; by tapping into these conversations, organizations can generate richer insights and create precisely targeted messages and offers. 

While 72 percent of companies use social technologies in some way, very few are anywhere near to achieving the full potential benefit. In fact, the most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are largely untapped. Companies will go on developing ways to reach consumers through social technologies and gathering insights for product development, marketing, and customer service. Yet the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that twice as much potential value lies in using social tools to enhance communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within and across enterprises. MGI’s estimates suggest that by fully implementing social technologies, companies have an opportunity to raise the productivity of interaction workers—high-skill knowledge workers, including managers and professionals—by 20 to 25 percent.    

Read the full report

Future of the Internet: Big Data

The latest Pew Internet survey asks Internet stakeholders about their hopes and fears for big data.

Data is everywhere in the digital world. Every time a computer or digital device is powered on, there is data at our finger tips. Big data is a type of data that could be a game changer in the next decade, and according to a new Pew Internet/Elon University survey that looked at the opinions of Internet experts, observers and stakeholders, this larger than the average data should be a good thing.

Of those surveyed, 53 percent said big data would produce an overall positive effect by 2020, while 39 percent said it would have an over negative effect and eight percent opted not to answer.

To understand what this means requires a quick step back. What exactly is “big data?” According to McKinsey&Company big data could be the “next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity,” which sounds like a big deal and a big promise. The research firm suggested, “The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, according to research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office.”   

Read the Survey Results

Join the conversation about big data and other workforce analytics and metrics topics at IHRIM's Workforce Analytics Forum, October 23 in Atlanta, GA.   

The 9 Secrets of Successful Project Initiation

Clearly, it's important that projects get off on the right foot, and yet how a project starts is often an afterthought. This white paper shows you how to give your projects a good start in life. You'll learn best practices to start a project off the right way, and maximize the chances of success.  

Read the article 

Field Guide: Building a Business Case for Mobile Learning

Mobile learning, applied to the right problem, in the right way, can deliver enormous efficiency and efficacy gains to an organization. But how do you justify the initial investment, and how do you ensure that learning is aligned with business goals? This field guide will explore critical steps to ensure that you get the most out of your mobile learning investment.

Read the field guide from SumTotal Systems 

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