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Tag: HR Technology

  • How AI is Changing HR for the Better

    How AI is Changing HR for the Better

    [Update 2019: This information has been woven into my new book, Artificial Intelligence for HR, which highlights the key skills we need to compete with machines in recruiting, engagement, and more. The book is getting rave reviews. Check it out here.] Last week I was one of several thousand people that attended the 2018 HR Technology…

  • HR Technology Vendor Demos: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly [Podcast]

    HR Technology Vendor Demos: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly [Podcast]

    One of the aspects of my job that I love is helping HR leaders select the right technology for their firms. (Thinking about changing technology this year? Let’s talk.) How many vendor demos have you been through lately? Could the demo have been run more smoothly? Were there any issues? Do you have pet peeves…

  • Help Me Pick the Next Great HR Tech Company

    This year I have the honor (and challenge) of being one of four analysts working with the HR Technology Conference to pick the next great HR tech company. Of the hundreds of submissions to this year’s contest, eight have been selected and four will actually get to present on-stage at HR Tech to a live…

  • How Talent Technology Enables Employee Engagement [Podcast]

    Talent management technology has come a long way in recent years. I can still remember seeing a demo for a technology solution back in 2014 and the salesperson was so proud of the fact that I could copy and paste data into the system. By the way: It wasn’t searchable. You couldn’t run reports. You…

  • SMB to Enterprise: The HR Technology Divide (#HRTechConf)

    Recently I was interviewed by a good friend from SHRM’s Public Affairs team, Mary Kaylor. She asked me a few questions about the HR Technology Conference, and you can read it all here. What I want to expound upon here is the final question in the interview. I had to be succinct in my response…

  • Engaging Employees with Technology Choices

    Last week I had the chance to speak with a local HR leader. She was lamenting her company’s hideously awful HR module that was an add-on to the company accounting software. The firm paid plenty of money for the module, but it is ineffective, inefficient, and virtually useless. It looks like it was coded/developed in 1993,…

  • The Problem with HR Technology Integration

    Technology is everywhere in the workplace today, but one of the biggest problems for many companies is integrating the various systems they have. If you have a favorite performance management system and want that to feed into your company’s learning management system so you aren’t duplicating entries and potentially messing up data, good luck. That’s…