Live blog: Business Cloud Summit 2011 #BCS11

Replay live coverage from the Business Cloud Summit, the UK’s most established Cloud Computing event, from 9am on Monday 5 December. See below for a live blog of the business stream. The Twitter hashtag is #BCS11. Business stream:   cover://v/fdcb4f2a88

What role does HR play in social media usage?

Sift Media’s analyst and research arm, K2 Advisory, has unveiled a significant new survey in order to understand the role that HR plays in shaping the use of social networking tools in today’s workplace. The world of work is changing at a very rapid pace and many of the drivers of this change are technology-based: […]

Update: UK worker loses race discrimination claim against Chinese telco

A UK worker has lost his case against a Chinese telecoms company that he sued for race discrimination after claiming that 49 workers in Basingstoke were axed and replaced with Chinese nationals. Judeson Peter, a customer support engineer who was paid £48,000 per annum by Huawei Technologies, accused the firm of making him redundant because […]

CIPD Conference: Creating a culture of innovation

Innovation does not simply happen of its own accord. It is instead born out of a corporate culture that allows individuals to challenge what is possible, but also to make mistakes without being afraid of the possible repercussions.   These were the key findings of a keynote panel discussion entitled ‘Creating a Culture of Innovation […]

Case Study: Lancaster Landmark Hotels focuses on attitude to boost retention

 The Lancaster Landmark Hotel Group has boosted both staff retention and customer service levels by focusing on recruiting and developing personnel who it believes have the right attitude and behaviour. The organisation operates three high-end London hotels, each of which is managed independently and caters to different types of customers, which made it difficult to […]

The changing face of the European HR technology market

Over the last few years, the delivery of HR services in Europe has evolved significantly, driven largely by a need to balance increased demand with the ability to manage costs – and improve quality. European economies are more diverse than in any other region of the world and businesses are under tremendous pressure to be […]

Video Interview: HR, execution and the cloud

Doug Dennerline, president of SuccessFactors, talks about how to bridge the gap between cloud strategy and execution. Watch this video to find out where he thinks cloud computing is headed in 2012.

Blog: High-performance HR – it’s about technology AND social media

“I only have 90 connections, I know but I was only connected to LinkedIn about a year ago.” “Yes, I did look her up on LinkedIn and I thought: ‘how you could be the head of HR and only have 32 connections?’”   These statements came from people I spoke with last week concerning the […]

Cloud HCM market set for a big shake-up next year

 “Marriages don’t last that long!” So said Dave Duffield, joint founder of HR Software-as-a-Service provider Workday and former PeopleSoft chief executive, of the time he’s worked with his co-CEO Aneel Bhusri this week.   Duffield’s comment came on the opening day of the supplier’s ‘Rising’ user event in Las Vegas, a gathering that took place […]

Video Interview: How Oracle is creating a socially-connected workplace

In the video below, Jon Ingham, HR consultant, author and co-founder of the Connecting HR social community, interviews David Christopher, Oracle‘s social business and collaboration leader in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The two discuss how Oracle is attempting to create a socially-connected environment in order to enable the software giant’s 22,000 employees in […]

SAP appoints new head of HR for UK and Ireland

SAP UK and Ireland has appointed a new HR director in order to help the application software provider achieve its global aim of doubling the size of its business. Laura Burton replaces former head of HR, Terri Ellison, and has been brought in to manage a team that looks after recruitment, contracts, training, rewards and […]

Leadership development is top L&D priority over next 12 months

Leadership development will be the top priority for workplace learning professionals over the next 12 months.  A survey conducted among 417 learning and development specialists by Video Arts revealed that 61% intended to provide leadership development training over the year ahead. Other priorities were people management, coaching, teamwork, customer service, time and change management.   […]

Software Satisfaction Awards 2011: The winners revealed

More than 300 people gathered at the Marriott in London’s Grosvenor Square on Tuesday to celebrate the Software Satisfaction Awards.  Sift Media, our publisher, partnered with technology association Intellect to host the awards, which were presented by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell.   Entertaining the audience with his sentiments on the recent RIM/Blackberry crisis […]

Technical skills seen as key barrier in move to HR shared services

Technology and the skills required to implement and use it are key concerns when migrating to HR and payroll shared services. A survey of more than 100 public sector organisations undertaken by software supplier MidlandHR revealed that many of them were currently looking on the black side, overestimating the challenges associated with implementing shared services, […]

HCM technology heads for the clouds in generation refresh

HCM systems are moving into the Cloud as a new generation of technology refreshes gets underway – that’s the unmistakable conclusion from a new global survey from HR consulting firm Tower Watson.  The study – which polled 444 HR managers in Canada, the US, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific – cited the recessionary pressures of budget […]

How to cope with empowering line managers

A hundred years or more after its inception, it’s fair to say that HR has finally reached a crossroads. And thanks to the uncertain development of the profession to date, it’s now unsure of which way to turn.   In many companies, the HR function has evolved over recent years to offer more of a […]

Blog: The social recruiting slugfest – who will win?

Everywhere I turn recently I keep hearing that Facebook is the place to recruit. It’s bigger than LinkedIn, has more daily visitors, people stay on it’s pages longer, blah blah blah. But does it have more hires than Linkedin? Even more importantly can it source more great candidates than LinkedIn? Who has more future potential to […]

Barnardo’s wins e-learning award for staff dedication and support

Barnardo’s has won an award for best overall e-learning programme at the Charity Learning Awards this year due to both its dedication and efforts to support a large number of users compared with the size of the learning and development team. Judges were also particularly impressed with the children's charity's innovative approach to learning, and […]

L&D teams’ poor skills hold back learning technology adoption

Although e-learning is by far the most popular of technological tools to help with training activity, learning and development teams’ poor knowledge, skills and confidence are the top barriers to successful adoption. According to a survey among 600 organisations undertaken by benchmarking organisation, Towards Maturity, 72%  were convinced that learning technologies would help them respond […]

Blog: IT can be HR’s best friend

The IT organization and HR have always had a mostly adversarial relationship as IT rarely sees HR as a true IT consumer, more as a clueless and demanding relative. Most HR departments for their part are usually very under informed when it comes to HR and IT’s role in supporting the business. But listen up it’s time […]