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2013 HRMS Strategies Conference and Technology Special Early Bird
Registration Ends January 31!
January/February, 2013
IHRIM's Top 10 Predictions for HR Technology in 2013
Protecting information in the cloud
HR’s Strategic Effectiveness 2013
Five HR technology trends for 2013 – and three critical action items
Top Six News Year’s Resolutions for Businesses
KPMG Sourcing Advisory 4Q12 Global Pulse Survey
IHRIM Publications - The February/March Workforce Solutions Review will give you the tools to decide what new technologies are right for you!
Event Calendar
IHRIM webinars and webinar recordings are complimentary to members
February 8: Using Technology to Drive Integrated Talent Strategy at Brink's, Dallas, TX. A special complimentary program.
February 13 IHRIM Webinar: Service Agreements - Foundation for Value Creation
February 27 IHRIM Webinar: The Early Bird Catches the Worm - Anatomy of a Talent Community
February 28: IHRIM's Successful System Implementation Course, San Diego, CA
June 2-5: IHRIM Annual Conference and Technology Expo, Orlando, FL
Don't miss the HRIM Foundation's special fundraising events in Orlando:
June 2: The HRIM Foundation Golf for a Goal
June 3: Party for a Purpose - Celebrate 5 years with the HRIM Foundation
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IHRIM’s educational events may be eligible for credits towards CHRP recertification.
| February 8, 2013 | Special IHRIM Educational Program: Using Technology to Drive Integrated Talent Strategy at Brink's, Dallas, TX. |
| February 13, 2013 | IHRIM Webinar: Service Agreements - Foundation for Value Creation |
| February 27, 2013 | IHRIM Webinar: The Early Bird Catches the Worm - Anatomy of a Talent Community |
| February 28, 2013 | IHRIM Course: IHRIM's Successful System Implementation Course, San Diego, CA |
| June 1-2, 2013 | IHRIM 2013 Pre-Conference Courses, Lake Buena Vista, FL |
| June 2-5, 2013 | IHRIM 2013 Conference and Technology Expo, Lake Buena Vista, FL |
- Did You Know that IHRIM Offers a Resource to Find Salaries and Job Descriptions?
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IHRIM's Top 10 Predictions for HR Technology in 2013
2012 has been a big year for HR technology. With growing use of HR in the cloud; the rise in popularity of Big Data; significant mergers within the vendor arena, a highly successful IPO from Workday; and increasing conversations coming from the boardroom about analytics, 2013 promises to make even more waves in the industry.
We’ve asked various luminaries of the IHRIM community to gaze into their 'HR Technology Crystal Ball' to provide a forecast for next year. So what will 2013 bring? The following predictions are what this group feels will be the most significant trends that will impact HR Tech in 2013.
Protecting information in
the cloud
IT and business executives need to apply a risk-management approach
that balances economic value against risks.
The use of highly scaled, shared, and automated IT platforms—known as cloud computing—is growing rapidly. Adopters are driven by the prospects of increasing agility and gaining access to more computing resources for less money. Large institutions are building and managing private-cloud environments internally (and, in some cases, procuring access to external public clouds) for basic infrastructure services, development platforms, and whole applications. Smaller businesses are primarily buying public-cloud offerings, as they generally lack the scale to set up their own clouds.
As attractive as cloud environments can be, they also come with new types of risks. Executives are asking whether external providers can protect sensitive data and also ensure compliance with regulations about where certain data can be stored and who can access the data. CIOs and CROs are also asking whether building private clouds creates a single point of vulnerability by aggregating many different types of sensitive data onto a single platform.
HR’s Strategic Effectiveness 2013
It’s no surprise that there’s a marked disparity in the use of human capital metrics between the best and the worst. ‘Twas ever thus. And, as with many areas of social and economic activity, if we could close the gap between the extremes and bring the ‘laggards’ closer to the ‘leaders’, it would make an enormous difference to the performance and credibility of the HR function. For, to be absolutely clear, HR’s failure to demonstrate the business value of people management, including the role performed by the function itself, is what gives HR a poor name.
What needs to happen is made obvious in this report. The first thing is to recognise that there’s a problem. If you’re reading this and showing an interest in human capital metrics, you’re already halfway there. However, awareness alone is not enough. What organisations need to do is devote sufficient time, money and energy to the question. As the work carried out by the Institute for Employment Studies for the CIPD showed, just because one knows what he/she should be doing, doesn’t mean they will necessarily do it. Much more time was reportedly expended on HR administration and line manager support and too little time was spent on HR and business strategy.
Read the HR InSights Annual Report
Our Outlook 2013 research identifies an unmistakable trend: IT demand and spending are continuing to rise from the recession years. Heading into 2010, less than half of companies in our survey were seeing rising demand for IT projects, about one in five was cutting IT staff and only 46% expected their IT budgets to increase. Today, 71% see rising demand for IT projects, just 8% are cutting IT staff and 60% expect higher IT budgets than in 2012. It’s also promising that our 728 survey respondents say their companies are planning an average of 5.5 major IT initiatives for 2013.
But therein also lies the problem. IT organizations’ priority lists continue to trend toward IT-centric projects. Every year, their budgets and staffs are geared toward making IT more efficient versus addressing the changing customer and technology landscape.
Two-thirds of projects planned for 2013, such as network infrastructure, security and storage, are decidedly IT-centric. About a fourth aren’t focused on IT-centric efficiencies but are still internally focused, projects such as ERP and data quality. The remaining 11% of projects focus on customers — building IT-led products, creating mobile apps for customers and improving big data programs, for instance.
Read the Information Week Report
Five HR technology trends for 2013 – and three critical action items
Is 2013 the year for an HR software makeover? This E-Guide uncovers the latest and greatest HR technologies. Discover how HR managers can take advantage of cloud computing, social and analytics to drive changes in talent management, employee engagement, and more. Plus, find out how Berkeley College overcame a tight implementation schedule, insufficient support and difficult data conversions in overhauling its outdated HR system.
Top Six News Year’s Resolutions for Businesses
Recall provides six simple New Year’s resolutions every business should adopt. In 2012, key business records were destroyed or lost, costing companies billions of dollars. Some documents were destroyed by natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, while others went missing due to poor records management procedures. Recall offers the following commitments each organization should take to prevent loss and business disruption caused by faulty or absent document management practices.
KPMG Sourcing Advisory 4Q12 Global Pulse Survey
Trends in shared services, outsourcing, and third-party business and IT service markets, gleaned from KPMG’s own field advisors and leading global service providers.
This edition of the global Sourcing Advisory Pulse surveys reflects global business services (GBS) market activity during 4Q12, as well as projections and predictions for 2013 for both GBS services as well as broader economic and market trends globally. Topics explored include: GBS demand and adoption trends, drivers for GBS delivery improvement efforts, top business and sourcing trends and predictions for 2013, update on global sourcing and outsourcing deal pricing, service provider profitability, and scope.
February/March 2013 Issue – The field of HR Technology is evolving quickly and with all the new technologies many professionals are wondering what to do – be on the bleeding edge or wait for the technologies to “ripen.” In this issue, we will take a panoramic view of those technologies, expand on the most promising ones, and discuss how they affect the HCM market space and your world as an HR professional. This issue will give readers the tools to decide what is right for them.
Planned features include: The Keys to the Castle: Applying Technology Trends to Human Resources; Do You Need Big Data?; Think Like a Job Candidate and Supercharge Your Social Recruiting ROI; The Cloud Demystified; The Analytics Revolution; and an interview with Josh Bersin, Bersin By Deloitte, and Mark Smith, HRchitect, on the consolidation of the HR technology space and what it means.
This issue will be bulging at the seams with the latest “need to know” information. If your new year’s resolution was to expand your technology knowledge, this issue of Workforce Solutions Review will be your go-to resource.
Book Release from IHRIM Publications
“Heroic HR, a little book with BIG ideas” by Marc S. Miller is now available at www.ihrimpublications.com. HEROIC HR provides a quick, easy, lively and valuable treatise on how to ensure that the HR function in your organization is viewed as a Strategic Partner. “The ideas are particularly helpful as they relate to investing in HR technologies to drive efficiency through employee and managerial self-service,” according to Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Visit the website, read the reviews by leading HR professionals, then order your copy today. It’s a little book with some really big ideas that you can implement in your company.
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