The salmon comment by President Obama turned out to be one of the funniest comments of the State of the Union. The fact is that organizations – including Government, for-profit,non-profits are equally hilarious in what they do and more on why they do it. There must be some good reason that one arm of GovernmentContinue reading “Of salmon – freshwater,saltwater and smoked ! The wonder of organizations and the President’s speech”
Category Archives: HR
Overcoming the mid-career, mid-skill problem – Part-II
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Where does the employee fit in the value chain?
A simple start is to identify direct value chain touch points and make sure that these employees understand their roles.
Outsourcing and innovation – Hackett Study and NESCON Workshop
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Outsourcing call centers – an ethics question?
I recently bought a Dell computer and during the buy process I needed to call and it was a US salesperson. In fact, the Dell website was very careful in guiding US customers in the early part of the buy process to US persons, or at least US numbers. You guessed it ! The personContinue reading “Outsourcing call centers – an ethics question?”
NECON 2007 my Knowledge Based Services – Low Cost Country Sourcing talk
The NECON Conference is a great event and will be will be inaugurated by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley with a whole lot of great speakers. NECON is a collaborative initiative of the Boston and North Shore Chapter of APICS ,The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the CSCMP New England Roundtable, the NEContinue reading “NECON 2007 my Knowledge Based Services – Low Cost Country Sourcing talk”
John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center
Just as things were slowing down for the summer I read the exciting news that John Seely Brown is joining John Hagel as Co-Chairman at the Deloitte and Touche Technology and Strategy Center. Readers of this blog might remember John Hagel ‘s great book Net Gain which talked about communities in 1997, a full decadeContinue reading “John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center”
Technology, Jobs and Home-Depot
This MSN report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers one angle of jobs outlook for the US. It suggests that many jobs that can be simplified and done by technology will be done by technology. Simplification includes consolidation of farms to larger ones which will find the smaller farmer out of work. Stock clerksContinue reading “Technology, Jobs and Home-Depot”
How Babe Ruth felt
The article on "People Issues" reminded me of how Babe Ruth must have felt when he was "sold" to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox. The "Curse of the Bambino" lasted 86 years and there is a blog entirely devoted to the curse. To avoid being cursed by IT star employees who are "sold"Continue reading “How Babe Ruth felt”
HR Outsourcing and Transformation
A recent EquaTerra survey suggests that certain areas within HR are growing rapidly in the outsourcing domain. Apparently, tasks like payroll processing;benefits administration and HR-IT are the areas organizations find most useful to outsource.Blackenterprise.com reports a Hewitt Associates study that 94% of organizations outsource at least one HR function. The Business Wire EquaTerra report alsoContinue reading “HR Outsourcing and Transformation”