Category: Speaking

STZ invited me to speak on HR (Out)sourcing. We discussed reasons to consider outsourcing (part of) HR services and then talked about what to do to make an informed decision.

This (Dutch) presentation on Strategic Workforce Planning discussed general trends: Organization: from hierarchy to network Demographics Globalization: sourcing, shoring and emerging countries and identified the following consequences for HR Result-driven HCM: SLA’s, score cards, efficiency & effectiveness Technology: 24×7, self-service, consumer pull Continued compliance: SOX, Legislation, Identity Management leading to…

How can you direct your human capital? Can you even speak about “directing”? Transforming anything is difficult, so I opened with the following quote: “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than to initiate a new order of things.…

I was invited by Oracle to present the outcomes of a survey I had run on HR in the Netherlands. This day was focused on health care.

The speaker invite for this GBG seminar was the following: Please present on maximizing and measuring HR Service Delivery Performance by restructuring and streamlining HR processes through Shared Service Centers, Global HR Portals and Outsourcing. Quite the sentence! I decided to focus on “Running HR like a Business”, which includes…

This was the outline of my presentation:

Why are HR customers not satisfied with the performance of HR? Research shows that HR is overly focused on administration and doesn’t use technology where it should. How can we solve this problem? During the Microsoft/HP conference I discussed introducing “service-oriented” HR: applying a new service model to deliver services…