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The premier educational event for the HRMS community, the IHRIM conference provides you with networking, professional development and information sharing activities and opportunities. Register Now to take advantage of our special early bird rates. 

Reserve your room at the Hilton Chicago and register as full conference registrant by January 31, 2012 and you automatically be entered into our drawing for a room upgrade to the Hilton's Executive Level.

Special Message from our January Sponsor

Towers Watson's HR Technology research 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 Forum and Survey which will launch in January 24, 2012. For more information, please visit www.towerswatson.com/hrsdforum. 

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IHRIM Congratulates Our 2011 Member Get-a-Member Campaign Winners

Congratulations to Vanessa Thatcher – NAV CANADA - winner of the Grand Prize of a free full conference registration to the IHRIM 2012 Conference in Chicago, IL and three nights at the Chicago Hilton, site of the 2012 Conference.

Congratulations to Ken Hall – Life Technologies - winner of the 4th quarter drawing for a $100.00 American Express Gift Card.

Thank You to the following members who referred new members to IHRIM during the 4th Quarter Member Get-a-Member Campaign.

Amanda Abraham - Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Charlotte Aldridge – Tesoro
Jeremy Ames - Gaucho Group, Inc.
Rich Berger - Citrix Systems, Inc.
Julie Blevins - UMass Memorial Health Care
Ken Hall - Life Technologies
Kevin Murphy - NIH
Vanessa Thatcher - NAV CANADA
Carolyn Weiss - Health Net Inc.
Mary Jo Woolf - Cargill Inc.

For more information on how you can participate in this membership referral campaign, go to http://www.ihrim.org/membership/2012referral.htm.

In this Month’s Issue:

IHRIM News and Updates

The Cisco Connected World Technology Report  - The Future of Work: Information Access Expectations, Demands, and Behavior of the World’s Next-Generation Workforce, Chapter 3

How social technologies are extending the organization

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond

10 Things a Performance Management System Can Do for You

Into High Growth Markets: Defining Challenges for Multinational Corporations Operating in High Growth Markets

What Every Enterprise Should Know About Cloud Computing and eDiscovery

Maximising the value of shared service centres through better people practices

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Reminder: All IHRIM Webinars are Complimentary to Members

January 11, 2012
Impact of the Current Economic Conditions on HR Technology Spending Plans - Complimentary to all attendees.
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January 25, 2012
Exploring the HR Function of the Future - Stories from the Market - Complimentary to all attendees.
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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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IHRIM News and Updates

The Cisco Connected World Technology Report - The Future of Work: Information Access Expectations, Demands, and Behavior of the World’s Next-Generation Workforce, Chapter 3

Regarding security-related issues in the workplace, seven of ten employees admitted to knowingly breaking IT policies on a regular basis, and three of five believe they are not responsible for protecting corporate information and devices.

Seven out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies, and one in four is a victim of identity theft before the age of 30, according to a global study from Cisco . The final set of findings from the three-part Cisco Connected World Technology Report reveals startling attitudes toward IT policies and growing security threats posed by the next generation of employees entering the workforce – a demographic that grew up with the Internet and has an increasingly on-demand lifestyle that mixes personal and business activity in the workplace.

The Cisco Connected World Technology Report provides insight into challenges that companies face as they strive to balance current and future employee and business needs amid expanding mobility capabilities, security risks, and technologies.  The findings are telling. The 2020 workplace is going to look a lot different from where we work today, as the next generation of global workers enters the workplace with expectations and demands about how, when, and where they access information. The Report shows how organizations can start preparing now to deal with the demands that will be placed on their IT and HR departments by this new workforce.

Read Chapter Three of the Study

Read the Full Study, which includes Chapters 1 and 2 (posted in the November and December Wires) (due to file size, may take a few seconds to download)

Special message from our January Wire Sponsor

CRG emPerform™ is an easy-to-use, web-based employee performance management solution. With emPerform, you are given all the tools for optimizing employee performance and reducing the time and money spent on administrative tasks. emPerform includes: automated appraisal, compensation management, succession planning, 360 multi-rater reviews, goal cascading and powerful reporting. Get started with a free trial.

How social technologies are extending the organization

Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities—key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer. When adopted at scale across an emerging type of networked enterprise and integrated into the work processes of employees, social technologies can boost a company’s financial performance and market share, respondents say, confirming last year’s survey results.

But this is a very dynamic environment, where the gains from using social technologies sometimes do not persist, perhaps because it takes so much effort to achieve them at scale. Some companies, respondents indicate, reaped fewer benefits and thus became less networked, while a smaller percentage learned how to deploy these technologies to become even more networked. Executives say that their companies are using them to increase their agility and to manage organizational complexity. Many believe that if organizational barriers to the use of social technologies diminish, they could form the core of entirely new business processes that may radically improve performance.     

Read the survey results

Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond

Gartner's top predictions for 2012 and beyond showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and in years to come. Selected from across Gartner's research areas as the most compelling and critical predictions, the trends and topics they address underline the reduction of control that IT has over the forces that affect it.

"The continued trends toward consumerization and cloud computing highlight the movement of certain former IT responsibilities into the hands of others," said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow. "As users take more control of the devices they will use, business managers are taking more control of the budgets IT organizations have watched shift over the last few years. As the world of IT moves forward, CIOs are finding that they must coordinate their activities in a much wider scope than they once controlled. While this might be a difficult prospect for IT departments, they must now adapt or be swept aside."  

Read the Predictions 

10 Things a Performance Management System Can Do for You

Why are organizations of all sizes suddenly rushing to automate their employee management processes? One reason is that web-based technology and affordable deployment options have helped this technology take off and driven organizations to rethink how they manage employee performance and workforce strategy. But more importantly, there are many things an organization simply cannot do without best-of-breed employee performance management technology. This whitepaper highlights ten of those things. 

Read the White Paper from SumTotal Systems 

Into High Growth Markets: Defining Challenges for Multinational Corporations Operating in High Growth Markets

Defining Challenges for Multinational Corporations Operating in High Growth Markets

While developed economies struggle with financial uncertainty and slow recovery, other emerging regions are undergoing rapid growth, creating opportunity and appeal for multinational corporations to expand operations into these high growth areas. This new research highlights the challenges multinational employers face when operating in high growth markets, as well as delivers practical human capital management insight for expansion into these regions.

Key highlights include: Insight into the unique business environment for which MNCs must be prepared, including variable business governance, internet access and connectivity, and cross cultural communication challenges in high growth regions, such as China, India and Southeast Asia;  the impact on business strategy execution and the need for effective business intelligence, global talent pipelines and the ability to transfer knowledge across borders and generations; and how the better use of technology and science can assist organizations to position themselves advantageously for success in high growth markets .

Read the Research Paper from PageUp People

To lean more about the challenges of going global, make plans to attend the IHRIM 2012 pre-conference course: Going Global – A Real-Life Practical Survival Guide, on Sunday, April 29 at the Hilton Chicago.  This interactive session will allow you, through case studies, to apply global thoughts and concepts to better understand the interdependencies and nuances when addressing global challenges. You will acquire practical tools to create your organization as a marquee global corporation.  For  more information on this course and our other pre-conference courses, go to IHRIM 2012 Conference Courses. 

What Every Enterprise Should Know About Cloud Computing and eDiscovery

Enterprise IT departments need guidance for deploying eDiscovery applications and for crafting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with cloud service providers, so that new cloud computing initiatives don’t undermine the enterprise’s investments in eDiscovery.

Two important trends in enterprise computing are operating at cross purposes:

Enterprises are investing heavily in cloud computing. They’re renting infrastructure from cloud vendors such as Amazon.com, and they’re replacing on-premise applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. By adopting cloud computing, enterprises hope to increase operational agility while lowering IT costs overall.

The other trend is enterprises setting up their own eDiscovery infrastructure and processes. Instead of relying on outside consultants to find Electronically Stored Information (ESI) relevant to civil suits, enterprises are deploying eDiscovery applications in-house and conducting managing processes themselves. The cost savings can be substantial, especially since the average Fortune 500 company is facing 150 lawsuits at any time.

Read the White Paper

Maximising the value of shared service centres through better people practices

Organisations which view their shared service centres as low cost providers of low value services are likely tolerating the underperformance of a valuable people resource. As centres’ capabilities continue to evolve, organisations are potentially missing an opportunity to improve services to internal and external customers through more empowered staff.

The creation and operation of a shared service centre is a significant investment for an organisation, yet the way staff are managed and motivated often reveals opportunities to increase the value of shared service centres to the business, whether located on or offshore.

Read the article

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