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toughest HR information management challenges at
IHRIM's 2012 HRMS Strategies Conference and Technology Expo,
April
30 - May 3, 2012, Hilton Chicago
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more) or our stellar pre-conference courses -
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Reserve your room at the Hilton Chicago
and take advantage of the discounted group rate.
Special Message from our February Sponsor
Towers Watson's 2011 HR Service Delivery and Technology survey shows that talent and performance management remain the most critical issues for nearly half the organizations we surveyed. Learn more how we can help you by participating in our 2012 HR Service Delivery Survey which will close on February 24, 2012. For more information, please visit www.towerswatson.com/hrsdsurvey.
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Special Opportunities for IHRIM Members!
IHRIM's volunteer program allows our membership to help IHRIM better serve our members as well as our profession as a whole. Want to be considered for a volunteer position? Join the CORE “Volunteer Connection Group. For more information, go to Volunteer Program.
IHRIM Set to Launch Expanded HRIP Certification Program
IHRIM is pleased to announce the expansion of the Human Resource Information Professional (HRIP) Certification exam offerings. Beginning next week, certification candidates will have two new options to sit for the HRIP Certification Exam in addition to our current hosted option.
The new options allow you to sit for the exam at a variety of test centers throughout the world and, provided you have the necessary webcam configuration, take the exam at your place of work (or home). 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. IHRIM will be reopening our exam registration process shortly; more information will be provided to you shortly and posted on the IHRIM web site - http://www.ihrim.org/certification/Index.htm.
February, 2012
Reaching for the clouds: A three-step journey
Gartner Identifies Six Trends That Will Drive the Evolution of Identity and Access Management and Privacy Management in 2012
IT Technologies to Watch in 2012
Requirements Management Plan: a Project Management Template
Event Calendar
Reminder: All IHRIM Webinars are Complimentary to Members
February
8,
2012
Technical Debt - Just Put It on My Tab
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February
22,
2012
Link HR Initiatives to Business Outcomes through Workforce Analytics
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March 8,
2012
COURSE: IHRIM's HR Metrics & Workforce Analytics Basics,
New York, NY
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April 4,
2012
12 Rules of Effective Networking
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IHRIM's events and webinars have been approved for recertification credit hours toward HRIP (Human Resource Information Professional) recertification.
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IHRIM 2012 Conference
& Technology Expo
April 30-May 3, 2012
IHRIM’s educational events may be eligible for credits towards CHRP recertification.
| February 8, 2012 | IHRIM Webinar: Technical Debt - Just Put It on My Tab, presented by: Jeremy Ames, HRIP, Founder & President, Gaucho Group . |
| February 22, 2012 | IHRIM Webinar: Link HR Initiatives to Business Outcomes through Workforce Analytics, presented by: Susan Walsh, Manager, Strategic Talent, Sears Holdings Corporation and Koren Ichihara, Sr. Analyst, HR Analytics, Sears Holdings Corporation. |
| March 7, 2012 | Save the Date: IHRIM Webinar |
| March 8, 2012 | Education Course: IHRIM's HR Metrics & Workforce Analytics Basics, New York, NY. This event is being held in conjunction with HR/NY. Thank you to Column Technologies for providing the course location. |
| April 4, 2012 | IHRIM Webinar: 12 Rules of Effective Networking, presented by Sandy Jones-Kaminski, Author of: I'm at a Networking Event--Now What???: A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Any Networking Event |
| April 29-April 30 | IHRIM 2012 Pre-Conference Courses, Chicago, IL. IHRIM is proud to present a stellar line up of half day and full day educational courses to be offered on April 29-April 30 at the Hilton Chicago. Take advantage of your 2012 Conference attendance and register today. Unable to attend the full conference? All of our courses are intended to be stand alone educational offerings. Go to http://bit.ly/IHRIM_2012Courses for complete information on the 2012 courses. |
- Did You Know that IHRIM Offers a Resource to Find Salaries and Job Descriptions?
- IHRIM' Online Buyer's Guide - search for HR systems solutions and service providers by name and category.
- Look Who's Hiring! Click on the Job Titles Below for More Information:
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Panasonic Avionics Corp |
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Family Health Centers of San Diego |
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Bristow Group |
Houston, TX |
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Russell Investments |
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Northside Hospital |
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American K9 Detection Services |
Lake Mary, FL |
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Portland Public Schools |
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Parsons |
Clear Lake City, TX |
Recently we caught up with Nov Omana (HRIP), Chair of the IHRIM Board and Founder/CEO - Collective HR Solutions, LLC and had the chance to find out more about him, including one thing about him few people know.
Look for more interviews of key IHRIM members & leaders coming soon! Would you like to suggest an IHRIM member to be interviewed? Email your suggestions to communications@ihrim.org.
Thank you to Towers Watson for sponsoring and presenting IHRIM's January 25 Webinar, Exploring the HR Function of the Future: Stories from the Market
Quick polling question result from this webinar: When asked if “Our HR
function is accepted as a strategic partner to the business”, here’s how
attendees responded:
- 22% said they “Strongly Agree”
- 60% “Agree”
- 18%
“Disagree”
- No attendees that “Strongly Disagree” with the statement
To view the recording for this Webinar or any IHRIM Webinars you
missed, please
click here.
Reaching for the clouds: A three-step journey
Choices abound when enterprises begin to explore a cloud computing strategy. Private, public, or hybrid? Adapt an existing IT infrastructure or create a new one? At the heart of the decision is a careful assessment of business and technology synergies.
“In 2012, businesses need to increase their focus on identity and privacy projects that can achieve quick time-to-value and deliver real value not just to IT, but also to the business,” said Bob Blakley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “As organizational boundaries erode under the pressure of federation and outsourcing, and as organizations' control over IT continues to weaken through increased adoption of mobile devices and cloud services, identity management is more important than ever — and more problematic.”
A New Approach to Social with Some Old Twists
The impact of social learning tools and how they affect business is growing larger. It’s no longer a question of “if” businesses will engage in social learning, but “how” and “when”.
Traditionally, organizations have wrestled with how to define social learning. Social learning can be classified as: “Any type of learning where a person learns vicariously through the observations of, or interactions with, others.”
Social learning technology should enable this definition of social learning and what is now called the “Seven Cs”. Josh Bersin (Bersin & Associates) has often referred to four of them: conversation, connection, collaboration and content. While acknowledging these, there are three additional and important “Cs” in the business today: consumption, contribution and control.
Read the White Paper from SumTotal Systems
IT Technologies to Watch in 2012
About this time over the past few years, I find it interesting to take a peek at what the prevailing wisdom purveyors and pundits believe the top information technologies will be over the next 12 months. Since 2009 these predictions have been pretty volatile.
Find out what the top technologies are
This template will help you build a Requirements Management Plan that addresses: Collection- gathering the basic needs of stakeholders; Categorization – categorizing those needs; Prioritization – prioritizing those needs and identifying “must haves;” Tracing – tracking how those needs are addressed throughout the life of the project; Change Management – the process by which we will change our requirements as needs change; and Verification – how we will verify that requirements have been met.
Completing this template will give you an important communications tool, but perhaps even more importantly going through the process will clarify details in your mind that you had perhaps not previously considered.
To lean more about project management, make plans to attend the IHRIM 2012 pre-conference course: IHRIM’s Essentials for Successful Project Management, on Monday, April 30 at the Hilton Chicago. Focusing on the skills, tools and techniques that project managers or project team members should know to effectively define, plan and manage projects and project assignments, this course will provide you the basics to prepare for and execute project management roles. For more information on this course and our other pre-conference courses, go to IHRIM 2012 Conference Courses.
Wiring the open-source enterprise
Social technologies lie at the core of a new model that spurs user participation and speeds up product innovation.
Open innovation isn’t a new phenomenon. The first Oxford English Dictionary was an open-source project: editors solicited the participation of hundreds of amateur volunteer readers. Fascinating examples of information sharing and innovative intellectual-property arrangements can also be found in the evolution of Cornish pumping engines in the 18th century and of blast furnaces in northern England during the 19th century. Software itself was distributed free of charge during the 1950s.
But open innovation has been gathering force in recent years, thanks to the emergence of the Internet as a global information-sharing network; the increasing importance of digitizable, knowledge-based products and services; and the sheer volume of data being generated, processed, and stored by a wide range of enterprises. From a beachhead in software, open innovation has spread to a range of industries that use external insights to boost internal R&D efforts or even rely on outside networks for core product ideas.
Workforce Solutions Review - Don't miss an issue!
February/March 2012
"Service Delivery is Hot” – and in this issue of WSR we’ll show
you how hot! Remember when HRMS Service Delivery used to be a mundane topic
where the most significant decisions were: 1) whether to buy or build, and;
2) whether to purchase from an ERP/Suite vendor or “best of breed” point
solutions vendor? Now HR and HRIT decision-makers are confronted with myriad
of challenges and choices in a new world of “any user, anywhere, anyhow,
real-time-anytime” world. Service delivery has now become a critical piece
of building a higher-performing organization. Service Delivery is now on the
front burner!
This issue will cover a variety of the latest trends and issues in HCM service delivery from a technology and organizational perspective. Planned feature articles include: Next Generation HR Service Delivery Models; Where’s the Service in SaaS?; Building an Engaging and Compliant Benefits Administration Model – To Insource or Outsource, that is the Question; The HR Business Partner, Shared Service Centers, and Centers of Excellence; HRO/BPO Today – To Be or Not to Be?; HR Service Delivery for SMB’s, and Service Level Agreements and Measuring for Success. This jam-packed issue will also include our regular complement of specialty, department articles. You won’t want to miss this new look at an “old” topic. Plus our HR Service Delivery Buyer’s Guide.
April/May 2012
“The HR Technology Evolution - it just keeps on coming! In this issue
you’ll find articles that cover Quantifying the Impact of Social Media,
Evolutionary Implications – What the Data tells us, Mobile Delivery – How,
What and Why? But the key focus of this issue is addressing the question
that most HR technology buyers have: “Are we any closer to a single-source,
integrated system for talent management.”
The market for "integrated talent management" software continues to be open to the existing players (whom are being consolidated more and more each day.) There are vendors that market end-to-end solutions that cover most of the bases to satisfy a company's "end-to-end" talent management needs. But it’s like trying to find that perfect universal remote control for your home. It turns on your TV, DVD player, stereo and all its components, the lights in your house – room by room, and your oven. But it won’t start your car and warm it up on a cold morning.
This issue looks at what organizations want and need – a complete HR platform strategy that integrates the various applications: (employee and manager self-service and all the technological support that enables HR to support the workforce and lower the cost of service delivery; time and labor and all the technologies that enable our organizations to put the right person in the right place at the right time and deliver at an optimal cost; the technologies that enable us to acquire, develop and retain talent and deliver revenue and/or profit-based outcomes; the technologies that enable metrics-based management and also contribute to financial performance improvements at the enterprise level; and, social and mobile adaptations of these that are just beginning to show enterprise value)…and, no million dollar upgrades every few year.
Does this fully integrated solution exist, and if not, how can companies combine the best of applications cost-effectively and drive business success? This issue of Workforce Solutions Review can be valuable to your business. Plus the Workforce Planning Buyer’s Guide.
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