Fast Forward: 25 Trends That Will Change the Way you Do Business

In the article, " Fast Forward: 25 Trends That Will Change the Way You do Business", the main point is that the world of workforce management will be completely different 1o years fom now. Some examples of changes: Emailing may evolve into a more powerful information-management and collaboration tool. An internet pioneer named Vinton Cerf predicts that automatic language translation will take hold. Organized labor will increase, Coporation involvment in public schools will increase, workplace privacy regulations may be adopted from Europe in the United States, companies may be open around the clock, and Artificial Intelligence will bring advances but may bring up ethical concerns. There are many more trends that will change the way you do business. Since this article was written a little more than five years ago, some of the predictions have come true. I am excited to see what will happen in the next 5 years.

HR Technology Profile - Group Assignment: Rajith & Eric

Radio Show #3: Kent Plunkett, Founder & CEO, Salary.com




Salary.com integrates data and technology to provide on-demand compensation and talent management web tools for HR professionals, business executives and applicants. Salary.com offerings include on-demand software services such as: Professional Edition for Small Business – a market pricing tool for companies with 200 employees or less, CompAnalyst™ - a market pricing, survey management and pay analytics suite, TalentManager™ - a compensation planning and performance management application, Salary Wizard® - free Salary data for applicants, and Personal Salary Reports.

HR Technology Profile

Best of Breed – YES best of breed tech vendor with the most configurable software for consumers, enterprises and small businesses. Salary data and functionality with talent management software and on-demand compensation data and software.

Niche vs. Suite - Suit vendor: On-demand talent management software, on-demand compensation data, and salary content and research services.

Delivery Model – Software as a Service: browser based.

Very Important Concepts - Help level the playing field between applicant and employers in salary negotiations by giving ordinary people access to the same salary survey data available to HR or an employer. Other concepts of interest: Pay for performance concepts, talent/performance management, balanced score cards, and smart goals.

Kent Plunkett founded Salary.com also, talks about how HR is pushing talent/performance management and sees it going main stream in the next couple of years.

Six Steps to Company-Wide Adoption Thoughts

In "Six Steps to Company-Wide Adoption", Michael Indinopulos states that many companies have begun integrating individual technologies such as (wikis, blogs, RSS, etc).  Since technologies is always changing, it is now being integrated into a unified platform.  Companies believe that the way to deploy such platform is through a company wide pilot.  Michael does not believe company wide pilot will work sufficiently. He believes that using the six ways to adoption social software will work better. Michael states that Social software must be deploy similarly like a presidential campaign. There must be individual campaigns in each department, branch,  like a presidential candidate running campaigns in each individual state.  The six steps is as follows.  1. Encourage a broad range of use cases. 2.  Recruit energetic champions across the organization. 3. Launch the tools with hands-on experience for new users. 4. Route repeat activities through social software. 5. Integrate with existing systems of record. 6. Leverage public communities. I believe that Michael's six Steps to company wide adoption is more realistic and will work better.