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March 2009 - Issue 5
Welcome to the latest edition of iProCon Insight, your leading source of transformation, human capital strategy and technology theory and practical advice.

Features


 

News


iProCon HCM repackages HR Information System offering

iProCon HCM has repackaged three services aimed at addressing the uncomfortable fact that too much is spent on HR Information Systems. The most common scenarios facing organisations are:
  • HR-IS projects are likely to run over budget, over time, fail to meet expectations or have to be ‘de-scoped’ to meet time and cost constraints.
  • Organisations overspend on their HR-IS portfolios, often failing to deliver the benefits or cost savings that were fundamental to the business case.
  • HR-IS projects are in a terminal state, and rapid, drastic action is required to bring them back on course and under control.
With the author of multiple books on the topic of HR Information Systems in our ranks, coupled with decades of experience in IT-related change and efficiency projects, iProCon HCM is ideally placed to help you address your HR Information System overspend.

Accelerating Transformation through the Human Capital Capability and Excellence Model (HCCEM)

Many organisations we talk to are struggling with similar issues. How can they ensure that their transformation is happening as quickly as possible? What can be done to make sure that those lower down the organisation have the same sense of urgency as those at the top? How can the transformation be delivered as cost effectively as possible, without jeopardising the intended benefits?

iProCon HCM continues to help many organisations accelerate their transformation through the deployment of its HCCEM. Follow the link to see how the HCCEM might benefit your organisation.

iProCon HCM now on Facebook

iProCon HCM now has its own Facebook page. To become a fan and stay connected with the latest discussions and thoughts, visit the iProCon Insight Facebook page.



 

A holistic view of outsourcing decisions

Outsourcing, particularly of administrative support functions, is very much in vogue as it is perceived as an easy way to cut costs. However, to realise benefits in cost reduction and beyond organisations need to look carefully when making their decision. iProCon HCM have found there are 6 elements to right-sourcing readiness.

See how iProCon HCM’s 6 step right-sourcing process helped a client to make their HR outsourcing decision and manage the change.


 

Outsourcing: Culture & Capabilities beat SLAs and SOx Certifications

This mini-case shows how a provider of outsourced services destroyed a client relationship because they confused Sarbanes Oxley compliance with high quality customer service. It also illustrates that clients should invest more time in the pre-transformation work, becoming clear about their own objectives and constraints and then selecting a provider that is a good fit in terms of both culture and capabilities.

Read the outsourcing mini-case here and let us know your own thoughts and experience, and contribute to the discussion for future newsletters.


 

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Recruiting via Web 2.0: How consistent is your message?

An increasing number of organisations rely on internet communities like LinkedIn or XING for recruitment purposes. Some post vacancies on those websites, whilst others conduct profile searches to target individuals.

Learn how recruiting via Web 2.0 can be improved in this article.

Managing Knowledge Workers at Google

In a very interesting video, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, speaks about the challenges of managing knowledge workers at Google.

Pay EITHER consultants or IT staff to do the same job - not both

We’ve seen dozens of IT departments with quite large teams, but lacking the expertise to do real high quality work on their systems. In particular it can be quite difficult for people to build deep technical competence in ERP systems. Many IT departments have a high staff turnover (often internal to keep people happy) and/or use people from the business side with no technical background. This leads to teams with many generic capabilities, but few hands-on skills. As a result, “consultants” are hired to do the work, even though from the number of people on the payroll, few external resources should be required. You end up with fifty IT staff “project managing” fifty “consultants”, who do the work the IT staff are paid to do in the first place – in most cases with no or little knowledge transfer. You can rely your own team OR on consultants to get a job done, but don’t pay twice for it.

The core message: Doing a skills review and redesigning the skills and sourcing strategies will usually save your organisation a big chunk of money.



 

 Events

HR Technology Summit


iProCon HCM has been invited to speak at the HR Technology Summit being held in Barcelona from the 23rd to the 25th march, 2009. The Summit is aimed at organisations and executives aiming to gain more value from their existing HRIS spend, and cut spend where the benefits are not immediately forthcoming.

iProCon HCM Senior Partner Kieren Beltrame will be talking about how organisations can “Maximise the value from HR Information System Investment”. If you or someone from your organisation is attending the event, we’d love to meet – please contact us.


SAP HCM: International Rollout and further workshops


Our German sister company iProCon GmbH, who provide consultancy around SAP HCM software, is running a series of workshops in April in Frankfurt.

iProCon HCM consultant Sven Ringling will be one of the facilitators in a workshop on 30 April about international rollout and will address, in particular, the strategic alignment of design choices and change management.

To learn more about this workshop as well as other events in the series (cost planning, ESS and reporting), follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/SAPHRWS.

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