Just Me

Migrating to S4 HANA and SuccessFactors with friends

I spent last week in (un)sunny Scottsdale, Arizona at the EPI-USE Client Advisory Board. (It’s the first time I’ve ever been there that it rained!) It was like a family reunion with some of the best talent in the SAP Human Capital Management ecosystem. It was an opportunity to uncover emerging trends with fellow customers, software developers and consulting partners; and to share experiences as…

The perils and pitfalls of being smart

Last year, my oldest sister was on placed on hospice care. We did not have time to set up hospice at home – or even to get her moved into a private facility. The best we could do was to make her and our family as comfortable as possible in her hospital room. It wasn’t very private. It was often crowded with friends and family.

One day, a hospital patient wearing a fuzzy pink robe and bunny…

For the Love of HR

(c) Can Stock Photo / oksix

We in HR get a bad rap. Possibly because the good news we have to share is limited to “congratulations, you’re hired” and “congratulations, you’re promoted” – the latter being less than 10% of the workforce annually. [Source: SHRM].

And yet – if you ask most HR professionals why they’re there, at the heart of their career choice is a desire to make a difference.…

Want to Keep SAP HCM On-Premise for a little while longer? Here are your options.

For the hundreds of you I’ve spoken to over the past several years who do not want to rebuild what already works in your SAP on-premise ERP system for HR and payroll, SAP is providing a bridge solution. Take a look at SAP S/4HANA HCM Edition. It’s a promising option for maintaining your on-premise SAP HCM solution through 2030.  

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years,…

This is not about technology. Secrets to HR Transformation #RechargeHR #HRTECH #SAP #successfactors

What does it mean to transform HR? Ask me. Or, better yet, let’s talk. Because it’s not a system you can plug in, a program you can execute, or a capability for which you can be trained.

For several years now, I have been writing about this precise topic, educating professionals through Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), and collaborating on forward-looking concepts with experts both in…

The world has gone digital. Work is digital. The workforce should be digital. This site is digital. I am not digital. Neither are you. And yet digital transformation is a business imperative.

If you’ve found this site it is likely because you did digital research looking for answers to the question: how exactly do I digitally transform HR?

Digital is not just about applying technology to…

Why didn’t Apple invent these??

Tech Crunch writer, Brian Heater, introduced us to the earphone set that is also a charger for your phone. Now, if you’re a fan of Apple products, and have an iPhone 7 or above, you KNOW you are as irritated as I am that Apple has done away with the separate (and standard) headphones outlet. If I’m on the go all day using my phone for conference calls and have my headset plugged in, then I’m not…

Writing your way to analytical heaven

True or false? Chocolate is essential to the production of effective people data analytics.

Photo courtesy of Migeul Garces, FLICKR, eating-chocolate.jpg

Trick question.

The answer is highly dependent upon who you ask.

(If you’re asking me for analytics, then, yes, definitely, the consumption of chocolate will be imperative.)

Now that I have my chocolate, let’s indulge in some more realistic…

After the HR software selection, then what?

So, you’ve made the decision that it’s time to change your HR systems platform. You’ve got a great in-house staff who knows where the current gaps are, knows something about the software options out there and is eager to create HCM nirvana for your organization.

Who will you trust to implement your new system?

Here’s five tips culled from my experience in the HR tech world both as a customer and…

Another allegation. Is it real?

I have to admit, I have empathy for Brett Kavanaugh and how the allegations of sexual assault when he was a teen are playing out in his career. Is this just “inappropriate behavior” of a teen? Should it come back to haunt him 36 years later at the peak of his career? Was there some investigation done deliberately to find cracks in Kavanaugh’s character? Was that investigation fair?

In a CNN…

I’m passionate about wellness at work. Here’s why.

For most of my career I was fortunate to be part of a major Fortune 500 company. I had insane career growth opportunities (IMHO) and real adventures in learning, leading, traveling and challenging myself. When I became a single mom, I had a manager who

understood I needed to work at home when my daughters were sick or having one of those northeastern snow days. I worked with a team of people who…

TAKING THE WORK OUT OF THE WORK DAY – SAP’s #HumanRevolution Revealed at SuccessConnect 2018

 “How to start a revolution: round up a Rockstar team of humans.”

Ya gotta have heart

Chairman, Bill McDermott made a point of telling the story of his first meetings with Lars Dalgaard, founder of SuccessFactors, to discuss the acquisition of SuccessFactors by SAP.  Bill recalls Lars saying: “You gotta protect the heart!” 

Bringing the love

How do you keep passion for software alive? By talking…

WWPD? What Would Payroll Do (if it actually modernized for a digital workforce) - Tell me #WWPD #RechargeHR

“Success in the digital future will depend on your company’s ability to implement digital technologies innovatively, by rethinking strategy, culture and talent.” ~ MIT Sloan Management review.

Face it we are in the digital future. It’s now.

I have quite possibly been one of the biggest skeptics on the idea that payroll could look much different from what it is today. I mean,

All I want – like…

The Science of HR: No experiments, please!

One of my favorite Disney characters is the lesser-known Figment – an impish dragon who challenges traditional thinking and scientific proofs as he interacts with scientist, Dr. Nigel Channing on the EPCOT ride, Figment’s Journey into Imagination.  “Sure, you can see with your eyes,” says Figment, “but imagine what you could see if you used your imagination!” Alas – “figments of one’s…

How do we get here to Strategic HR for a New Industrial Revolution? #RechargeHR

There’s a rumble in the atmosphere as technical advancements of the last three decades convene together upon something larger than themselves.  Enter the workplace of the Fourth Industrial Revolution where the data points we have carefully collected over the past several decades are now connected in ways that would be the envy of The Jetsons.

Will you remain a complacent absorber of the…

Imagine Loving Your HR Department

In her Ted Talk, Nora Atkinson poses the question: Why in this increasingly digital age are people leaving their mobile devices behind and coming out into the desert, to get their hands dirty and make art in extreme conditions? It’s because of the human connection.

In the world in which I work, we talk about making everything digital — “digital transformation.” But I am also an artist, an empath…