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Thomas Wailgum Inspired Post #2 — A Further Airing Of Grievances
Personal Grievances Were Never Part Of My HRM Object Model So I’m Improvising Last month I had a terrific time airing a list of the grievances, just some of the routine annoyances, of my professional...
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Is HR Really A Pink-Collared Ghetto?
HR Is A Dominated By Women But Led By Men I had planned to write this last September, so let’s just pretend that I did rather than wondering why I didn’t. It’s a critically important topic, and I...
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Is It Really SaaS If?
If It Looks Like A Duck… I’ve long since put to rest the whole multi-tenancy debate around SaaS. If it isn’t multi-tenant, then it isn’t SaaS. You can host/subscribe single tenant software, and...
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Larry Ellison And I Disagree, And Not Just About The America’s Cup
First things first. Although all responsibility for this post is mine, I want to offer my sincere appreciation to Michael Krigsman (@mkrigsman on Twitter) for his suggestions on how I could write a...
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HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
Dr. Naomi Is In! Unlike my good friend Ray Wang, there are no Naomi clones. Just this solo consultant trying to save the world from bad HRM and HRM delivery systems. And while I’m a pretty...
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M&A Observations: Oracle, Infor And… SumTotal?
When SumTotal announced in April a not unexpected acquisition of Accero (really more of an aggregation because both firms were already owned by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm with a now...
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#Consumerization, #Gamification and #Mechugasification
Mechugas — Fun But Without Organizational Purpose I love the fact that enterprise software is becoming more like consumer software every day — more usable, more accessible, more obvious and...
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The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt
Where Does Technical Design Debt Originate? I spent a very intense week last July in Silicon Valley meeting mostly full days each with Workday, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Saba and SAP, and would like to...
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What’s True SaaS And Why The Hell Should Customers Care?
Why Buy The Cow? When I was barely into my teens, my mother’s (every mother’s of that era) version of the sex talk was captured in this expression: “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for...
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Reprise — When Bank Branch Managers Are Called President
1/31/2012 — Shortly after I launched my blog, I published the post below. I’ve thought about it often since then, but never more so than today. So what set me off enough today to make me republish a...
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Reprise — HRM #EnSW Vendor Consolidation Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales Can Come True, It Can Happen To You… 2-12-2012 I just couldn’t help myself on this one. After another week of non-stop M&A fall-out from Oracle/Taleo, I was reminded of the post...
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What Color Is Your Hair — Really?
Choose Your Color, Any Color People of all ages choose to modify their hair color, and for many different reasons. Sometimes, it’s simply to give themselves a change, as when a young person colors...
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Naomi’s Top Ten List — Coping With Vendor Consolidation
Don’t Let This Happen To You! Last week I delivered a keynote for HR Technology Week which I hope many of you attended and/or for which you have access to the replay. I thought that the top ten...
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IBM Buys Kenexa — A Dramatization
I’ve been experimenting with GoAnimate, trying to make quick videos on a range of personal and professional topics. Here’s one I just did on the latest deal in HR technology: IBM buys Kenexa...
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Loss Leaders: Great For Kodak Film But Perhaps Not For HR Technology
[Like all early childhood memories, please consider this story as a possibly flawed recollection. What remains is the learning, for which I'm very grateful.] I learned about loss leaders on my 5th...
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Zombie HR Tech Vendors
What got me thinking about this was reviewing the list of exhibitors for the upcoming HR Technology Conference in Chicago. There are vendors on that list who’ve been around at least as long as the...
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Reprise In Time For #HRTechConf: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
[I posted the original version of this on 9-12-2011, just in time for last year's HR Technology Conference. Now here we are again, in frantic last minute preparations, but so wanting to be sure that...
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Impressions From HR Technology Conference 2012
I’ve just reread my observations from last year’s conference, and you should too. If I say so myself, it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of what was happening then, much of which is still happening but...
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My 2013 And Beyond Wish List For HRM And HR Technology
Never mind trying to make meaningful predictions, which are very hard to do safely when you’re under a zillion NDAs. Instead, I’m focusing my energies on what I want to happen. What would I make...
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The Mysteries Of HRM And HR Technology — From The Pen Of Naomi Bloom
Those who know me well know that one of my greatest pleasures is opening, literally, a new mystery book of the British cozies flavor. These are the types of mysteries written during the Golden Age of...
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