When the Titanic sank, researchers furiously worked to determine the causes, so all future ocean liners could safely transport passengers. When an organization experiences…
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“HRMS” can be a slippery term. Some vendors use it to describe a basic employee database with limited functionality, onto which can be bolted a number of compatible modules, each providing software support for one of the different HR functions listed below. Others use it as a blanket label for a broader system that actually includes most if not all of the following modules in a single streamlined package. Whatever the definition, here are brief descriptions of the ten most common modules by HR function, together with the key features for each.
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No ERP implementation can succeed without employee training. Because ERP implementations entail significant change to the way employees work, training must be an integral…
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Organizational change management. That’s the only way to successfully change your people, processes and technology. You may have heard it called people enablement, workforce transition or business process implementation, but the most accurate term is organizational change management, as it encompasses everything from communications to training.
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A co-worker on an agile project was showing me a feature he was perfecting, and it was looking pretty good with features to add…
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Given the exponential rise in reported adverse events (AEs), automation in Pharmacovigilance is now a necessity. However, digital process automation (DPA) enables far more…
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At TEDxZurich 2013 Nicolas Perony gave an excellent talk about complexity that has relevance in the collaboration technology field. He has some excellent examples…
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There is a broad misconception that RPA about “business process” by itself. I have heard people say that they were going to switch from BPM to RPA. That is strange because the capabilities are quite different. It makes sense to use RPA and BPM together, and sometimes you can use one without the other, but only to solve different problems.
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Industry 4.0 – Technology creates new opportunities and change the existing state. Only one thing we know for certain, the only constant we can count on is the change. Technology changes future occupations and make many of current ones will be obsolete. In parallel it also changes the relations inside companies, ways of recruiting, but also a way to manage and evaluate employees. Very soon we will feel the effect of processing Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, Virtual Reality, IoT, Biotechnology, 3D printing, Automation, Autonomous Transport or the different usage of Robots.
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The truth is that innovation needs exploration and that’s never efficient nor can it be optimized, but it can be done cheaply enough to be sustainable. Today we need to manage not for stability, but for disruption. So instead of just planning against established metrics, we also need to continually ask what we’re doing to explore the unknown. Not all who wander are lost.
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