Editor's Note

​A well-run HR department is crucial to an organization’s health and with HR budgets increasing every year, streamlining and automating HR’s most administrative tasks will only increase its value. Unfortunately, much of the personal side of HR is easily lost as HR professionals spin their wheels carrying out administrative tasks just to keep the lights on.

HR Technology Revolution: It is on the horizon

If people are the lifeblood of any organization, then human resources is the beating heart. HR teams love people and helping those people thrive professionally, which helps strengthen the organization. Unfortunately, much of the personal side of HR is easily lost as HR professionals spin their wheels carrying out administrative tasks just to keep the lights on.

HR Strategy and Planning Essentials Advertisers: September 2016

Evaluating HR Technology Maturity: What are the key questions to ask?

​HR Technology is an ecosystem that advances and matures one component at a time. Changes and additions are made to the ecosystem, prompted by new waves of technology and in response to changing business conditions. Like any other, an HR Technology ecosystem is more than the sum of its parts. Different solutions are inexorably linked to each other by common data elements and through cross-cutting business processes.

The Risks Of Not Having Human Resources: Are you facing any?

Human Resources functions as an advisor and a coach to an organization’s management. In the process of doing so, Human Resources Professionals carry out a number of activities in conjunction with managers, such as: sourcing (finding) job applicants, hiring and on-boarding them, analyzing jobs, writing position descriptions, managing employee Learning & Development and health & safety programs.......

Avoid Nomadic Analytics: Improve your bottom line

​Whether your specialty is analytics in HR, operations, supply chain, engineering, or marketing or whether you work across multiple areas like I do, the fundamental core of applying analytics to business is the same. The key to success lies in the ability to focus and prioritize. This is an important concept that needs to be understood by business owners, leaders and their analytical specialists.

Transform Your Hiring: What can be done?

The reality is that today’s worker is more disengaged than any other time in history. It could be because of the generational shift, or it could be because overall people are disenchanted with society, whether it be politics, religion, healthcare, the environment - people don’t trust their leaders to be honest, or to take care of them. I don’t blame them.

HR Software And Analytics: The business case

​HR Pros have heard for years that it’s their turn for a “seat at the table” and that they need to “get strategic” about people management. And while some might argue that HR Pros have been strategic and own people management already, there’s finally a study that makes it official.

Escaping Spreadsheet Hell: Integrated HR solutions for midsize firms

If Dante had worked in modern business, he would have added a tenth circle to his Inferno — spreadsheet hell. Extracting critical data from multiple systems, and trying to manipulate that data, challenges and frustrates employees. HR professionals deal with this problem every day in an effort to meet critical compliance requirements or to generate reports for their executive team.

Staff Leave Planner: A power tool that marries value and convenience

​Certain software solutions take time before they capture the fancy of business owners. Staff Leave Planner is one of them! Know how it can prove to be a vital addition to your people management software suites.