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Risk has a Human Face

I sometimes shudder when I hear HR professionals ask ‘why should HR consider risk management?’ ‘Doesn’t HR have enough to do putting out operational fires and managing their day job?’ Sure, ok, but it is also the role of HR professionals to focus on the...

Published 21 Apr 2010 5:06 AM by Inform Blog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, human capital risk management
Where for art thou…capability?

What’s in a name? Surely a capability by any other name would smell as sweet? Capability, competency and skill are increasingly discussed phenomena in the world of business. But what are they exactly, and are they fundamentally different from each...

Published 3 Feb 2010 1:55 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM
Figure Skating takes its Metrics too Far

With my beloved New England Patriots long gone from the NFL playoffs and a week still to go before I can root against the equally reviled Indianapolis Colts in the Superbowl, my eyes wandered a bit reading Monday’s sports section. Remarkably, I found...

Published 29 Jan 2010 7:30 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, HR Metrics, Workforce Analytics, Human Capital Analytics, Analytics, Measurement
What to Expect for Strategic Workforce Planning in 2010

In the spirit of forecasting, and taking a cue from colleagues, I’d like to offer some thoughts on what will happen with Strategic Workforce Planning (SWFP) in 2010. There’s good reason for me to be confident to prognosticate, but if these predictions...

Published 18 Jan 2010 9:10 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, Workforce Planning, Strategy, Foreecasting, Business Planning, scenarios
Preparing for tomorrow when the spotlight is on today.

Anybody who has attempted to embed strategic workforce planning (SWFP) into their business planning processes will attest that it can be an uphill battle at times. I recently saw an organisation make great strides with SWFP only for the process to be...

Published 18 Jan 2010 4:45 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Workforce Planning, Data driven decision making, Strategic Workforce Planning
Project Commitment

I have seen many project managers with all the best intentions of meeting project objectives and delivering on time… Until they begin to meet roadblocks with people. Generally, across the life of a project, a project manager deals with various stakeholders...

Published 5 Jan 2010 2:28 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM
Energy & Utilities Consortium 2009 Critical Jobs Research and 2010 Forecast

Infohrm has several Consortia that provide networking and benchmarking in specific industries – Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Global Technology, and Energy and Utilities. I have personally been involved with the last one, and learned that most...

Published 22 Dec 2009 9:01 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Workforce Analytics, Skills Shortage, Workforce Planning, skills, Talent Management, Critical Jobs
Extra! Extra! HR Suddenly Hot!

For those of you that caught the Wall Street Journal article this week HR Executives Suddenly Get Hot you might have had the same reaction Picasso had to the incredulous admirer that commissioned a “simple” drawing by him. The story goes like this: Picasso...

Published 18 Dec 2009 1:38 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Workforce Reporting, Human Capital, HR Metrics, Workforce Analytics, Workforce Planning
Welcoming in the Benchmarking Season

This time of year can mean many different things to many different people, the start of the winter here in North America juxtaposed against the curious image on greeting cards in Australia of Santa on a surfboard. Whatever region of the world you are...

Published 10 Dec 2009 3:13 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, HR Metrics, HR Benchmarking, benchmarks, targets, Benchmarking
Making Scorecards “Stick”

For years the use of a human capital scorecard has created buzz in the HR community. It’s part of the focus on metrics, analytics, and building a data-driven function. However, many organizations struggle with making it “stick” – getting managers to actively...

Published 9 Dec 2009 4:23 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, HR Metrics, Workforce Analytics, HR measurement, HR Strategy, strategic hr, strategic HR measurement, data-driven hr, workforce scorecard, change management, scorecard, people scorecard, hr scorecard
Observation, Irony and Analogy – “Sharpen the Saw” for 2010

As Director of Sales for Infohrm, I have the opportunity to talk with many companies who have varying degrees of interest in Workforce Reporting, Planning and Analytics. One of the trends that I have noticed during this recent economy is that many of...

Published 9 Dec 2009 2:50 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM
Be wary of “the single metric”

One of the most common questions we’re asked when working with a company for the first time is “what human capital metrics are most important?” Or in another guise: “what should be our human capital KPIs?” It would be very tempting to provide a simple...

Published 8 Dec 2009 5:24 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, HR Metrics, Workforce Analytics, Metrics, human capital measurement, KPI
Uncertain Future? PLAN ANYWAY!! Workforce Planning could lead to Industry Leadership

My colleague, Nick Garbis, shared with me a McKinsey article that is now about a year old. Ignoring the pathetic coincidence that I flagged it last year and it’s still in my e-reading pile, I enjoyed the interview with strategist Hugh Courtney for several...

Published 6 Dec 2009 9:12 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM, Human Capital, Workforce Planning, Innovation, scenario planning, Competitive Advantage
Short and Sweet?

After reading the November issue of Infohrm’s Newsline I noticed myself drawn to articles which were written in three pages or less. In particular, I found blog articles and video presentations the ones that I finished first. I preferred them, and I suspect...

Published 24 Nov 2009 6:07 AM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM
Forget the Pitfalls – Find the Workforce Management Benefits of Social Media and Networking!

It’s hard to argue against the assimilation of social network (SN) activity into the lives of people living and working in developed business environments; it has nearly become routine. We IM, Facebook, Twitter, Link (in), video chat, and so on every...

Published 20 Nov 2009 11:56 PM by Infohrm's Weblog

Filed under: HCM

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