HR Technology Presentation - BNHRA, April 25
SteveThis coming Saturday, April 25, 2009 I have the great pleasure of presenting an overview of my HR Technology class to the Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association's (BNHRA) student chapter.
This seminar will provide an overview of the fundamental technologies that support essential HR processes, review the increasingly important field of Talent Management technologies, and lastly discuss the emerging impact and influence of 'Web 2.0' technologies and platforms on HR Technology.
In preparing for the presentation, I decided to give mind-mapping a try to get the rough outline of the presentation organized, and to see how the topics 'flowed'. I used a site called MindMeister, and below is the MindMap I created for the April 25 session. In the lower right corner of the image below, there is a small icon that can be clicked to see the full map. Or you can click anywhere inside the image, hold down the mouse button, and drag around on the MindMap to see the details.
Anyone who takes a look at this, please feel free to let me know what you think about the outline. Is it too much content? Not enough? Did I leave something out, or does a particular topic call for more emphasis?
I really look forward to the presentation to the students, and thanks to the BNHRA for inviting me.
Reader Comments (11)
And this presentation is, what, about three days long? This is a great deal of information (albiet all very important to the future of effective and strategic HR). I can't image you being able to do more than just touch on each topic, but that should at least whet some appetites - it does mine; HR Technology fascinates me (working at a SoMe technology leader makes that inevitable, I guess). Would love to be a part of this, but alas, I am way down in southwest Florida! Love following you on Twitter - great and useful info!
Thanks Gwen, you are right, it is probably too much material to cover in one session, but I plan on moving really rapidly, hitting the high points and trying to touch on the most important issues. It was a challenge leaving anything out, as there are so many facets of HR Technology. I have not delivered this presentation to anyone yet, so I may indeed find it is too much for a seminar, but I figure it is better to have too much information rather than too little. Thanks very much for reading and for commenting.
Steve - that is a very comprehensive mindmap. And although, yes, it's a lot to cover in one session, the fact that you DO in fact cover this material in your HR Tech class, makes sense that you'd include the highlights in a presentation about the program. You'll be painting a compelling reason to take the course -that's for sure!
Connie - Thanks for comments, I agree it is quite a bit to cover, but going through the exercise has helped me quite a bit in my preparations for my next full class that starts in June. I hope that more and more HR folks and students will want to learn more about technology and that the course will continue to grow. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
Excellent concept map Steve – and a pretty comprehensive coverage of the relevant subject areas. I have a mind map of my own e-HRM course which I’ll try to share – I haven’t put it on the public domain yet.
I’m not sure how long the seminar/presentation and the expected audience background, but a couple of things I could think of in the conceptual foundations and these come from my own experience so it might not apply to your situation: i) the difference between HRM and HCM ; ii) the Technology Layers in HRIT - Core versus Functional versus Bespoke ; and iii) a strategy value map as a frame of reference to anchor the discussion around new technologies.
In the course I offer, I also touch on HR portals and guiding principles in ESS/MSS application suites.
Your coverage of HR 2.0 sounds very interesting and it’s something I will have to adopt in my own courses – I talk about some web 2.0 stuff in the context of virtual communities of practice… and try to link web 2.0 to knowledge management aspects within the firm. I’ll keep checking your blog for more ideas on incorporating web 2.0 ideas in HR related initiatives.
Best of luck with your seminar.
Thanks Umar for the excellent suggestions. As many folks who looked at the outline suggested, I truly did have too much material to squeeze into the session, especially as there were many more questions and comments during the presentation than I had anticipated. Overall, I think it went well, and I learned some lessons on how to best package this material for what I hope will be future, similar presentations. Thanks all, for your comments and observations, I appreciate it.
Just took a cursory glance, but didn't see anything about the use of CRM technologies to power a host of strategic HR activities that require segmentation beyond what the primary functional technologies were designed to deliver. For instance, direct sourcing via database mining, social networking, web 2.0 lead gen and employee referral are both recruiting channels that produce information that does not pertain to either an applicant or a candidate, at least until a later stage in the process. Nearly every major corporation now has a CRM license in HR to deal with contact info and segmented messaging. The same tools are also often used to power alumni programs, external leadership development pools, external succession planning, and a host of other strategic topics.
While I know these students will not change the game overnight, I think it is important that they not only learn about the average, most common way, but also the shortcomings of the current approaches and tools and how leading edge organizations are augmenting capability to enable cutting edge processes and approaches.
Thanks for the comment regarding the use of CRM-like tools and capabilities and their application to strategic recruiting and sourcing. I am aware of these trends in the market, but was under the impression that widespread uptake of these kinds of solutions was still a ways off. I will do some additional research in this area, and potentially include related content in future presentations and classes. Thanks very much for reading and sharing your insights.
A great overview of HR Technology for the 'visually-minded', thanks for sharing Steve. MindMeister looks like a great collaborative tool for presentations.
Andy, thanks very much for stopping by and for the nice words. I am a recent adoptee of mind-mapping, but I am really a believer in the power of the tool to help organize content such as a presentation. I appreciate that you came by and shared your thoughts.
It's great post! Thanks for sharing with us. This being a technology conference, technology vendors came out in power. A lucky little got to showcase their wares in a timeslot specially dedicated to vendors.
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