Do you have ‘Klout’?

Do you have ‘Klout’?

Reputation is important. Especially if you work in professional services, reputation is the difference between a steady stream of contracts and none at all. There are many tools on the web that claim to measure reputation and influence. Unfortunately, most of them do not disclose how they calculate your final score: they will mention sophisticated…

The Day the Cloud Went  Bust

The Day the Cloud Went Bust

If you are on Twitter, I am sure you recognize the illustration: the Twitter whale signals that the system is not working as it should. Unless you are in the middle of a tweet-up, Twitter being out of service is unlikely to be more than annoying. But what about other cloud applications we have come…

Reading: Deloitte HCM Trends 2011

Deloitte has published their latest Human Capital Trends study titled “Revolution/Evolution”. It’s a good 30 pages on 12 trends that are shifting the HR landscape and reads well. Deloitte mentions that two broad themes – innovation and global markets – are influencing human capital organizations around the world. Each theme is described in a few…

What is good HR service?

A few weeks ago somebody told me she decided to quit her job and start out on her own. We were talking about the opportunity and I asked her what role HR played in her decision. She answered: `They had some wonderful tools and policies available´. I was a bit surprised to find out that…

Safe At Home

Safe At Home

Many people own a safe. They use it to store valuable items, which they don’t use every day and want to protect, like passports, birth certificates, diplomas, the deed to a house, money or jewelry. I don’t have a safe at home. Call me naive, but I’ve never understood the concept of keeping your valuables…

What is the future of HR?

Imagine, if you will, your company without an HR function. Now suppose you’re asked to set up HR: What would you do? Would you create something similar or radically different? Would you create it at all? The ‘new normal’ will vastly different We’ve arrived at a turning point in history where new technology is profoundly…