New Clients and Projects That Begin in December/January

February 8, 2009

 

As we trust you know from reading this blog, HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management systems consulting firm, our services include the selection, implementation, and integration of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Talent Management Suites (TMS), Performance Management, Succession Management, Compensation Management, Learning Management, Competency Management, Talent Acquisition Systems, Workforce Management Systems, and Time & Attendance software.

 

To that extent, we have completed over 600 projects since HRchitect was founded in April 1997 and are happy to call more than 1 in 5 of the Fortune 100 companies our clients.

 

I promised that we would post a blog each month about some of the new clients we have picked up in the previous month as well some of the new projects we have started for past or existing clients and also touch on some of the projects that were completed in that month.

 

We publish a monthly newsletter called “The HR Authority” that we did not publish in January due to many year-end activities. As a result, this list covers both December and January:

 

Adaquest

Advantage Rent-a-Car

Applied Information Science

Astronics

Atlantic Marine

Caris Healthcare

Carlton Engineering

Clear Edge Power

CLM Workforce Connection

CMC ICOS Biologistics

Della Monica & Associates

Echo Global Logistics

e-VentEXE

Execumax

eZassi

GalaTech

Henry Schein

Industrial Scientific

Los Angeles United Preschool

Mech Recruiting

Meclabs Group

Niche Geeks

Nova Healthcare Search

Performance Partners

Premier Staffing Partners

PumpPeople

Rudolph Technologies

Sec Tek

Siegel & Gate

Sur La Table

Synapse SE

T-Mobile

Talent Mindset Resources

The Bergen Briller Group

The Job Exchange Association

Weingarten Realty Investors

 

 

Also in December/January we initiated additional projects for these current and past clients:

 

Boy Scouts of America

Kindred Healthcare

Monsanto

NCO Canada

NCO Latin America

Raytheon

 

 

Thank you to all of our new and past clients for trusting us with your HR technology projects! If your company has any HR technology needs such as looking for new HR or talent management systems or optimizing current HR or talent management systems, be sure to contact us today.

 

Solving a piece of the puzzle…

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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February 6 WebMingle Featured Todd Premo and Chris Lennon from GeoLearning – Next up is Dr. Lewis Hollweg from Batrus Hollweg International (BHI)

February 8, 2009

 

As we hope you know by now, our weekly WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care.

 

The 45-minute WebMingle on February 6 with Todd Premo and Chris Lennon of GeoLearning touched on numerous topics including:

 

·         Who GeoLearning is and what does a typical organization look like that chooses GeoLearning as a vendor

·         What trends GeoLearning is seeing in the industry for 2009

·         What is on deck for GeoLearning in 2009

·         How GeoLearning’s customers are taking advantage of recent technologies like RSS Feeds, Wikis, social networking, etc.

·         How organizations are managing training in non-centralized organizations

·         And more…

 

About GeoLearning and Todd Premo and Chris Lennon

GeoLearning is the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and on-demand performance and learning platforms and the winner of the December 2008 HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Learning Management Systems. Chris Lennon is a product manager for the GeoMaestro 5 Series LMS platform. He has over 10 years of experience in the learning industry ranging from trainer to LMS design and development. Chris has been involved in managing LMS development for eight years. Todd Premo is the Director of Solutions at GeoLearning and leads a team of Solution Architects, Product Specialists, and Proposal Writers responsible for solutioning a customer’s specific learning and talent goals.  Todd has 9 years experience in the learning technology industry managing products and customer implementations.     

 

If you missed this past week’s WebMingle, or any of our past WebMingles, please visit our web site at www.HRchitect.com. You will see a complete list of upcoming guests and will be able to listen to past shows such as:

 

February 6 – Todd Premo, Director of Solutions, and Chris Lennon, Senior Product Manager, from GeoLearning

 

January 30 – Jim Fowler, CEO and Co-Founder of Jigsaw, online business directory experts

 

January 23 – Peter Louch, Founder & CEO of Vemo, a Workforce Planning Vendor

 

January 16 – Charles Coy from Cornerstone OnDemand, a leading Talent Management Systems vendor

 

January 9 – Bill Gilmyers, Senior Consultant, Jeff Higgins, Executive VP of Client Services, and Mick Collins from workforce planning vendor, Infohrm

 

December 19 – Rick Fletcher, President of HRchitect joined Matt Lafata to talk about some of the significant events that took place in our industry in 2008 along with some observations and predictions for the future.

 

December 12 – Adam Feigenbaum, Director of Sales, and Susan Vitale, Director of Marketing from Talent Acquisition Systems and Talent Management Systems vendor, iCIMS

 

December 5 – Mark Willaman, President & Founder of Fisher Vista, LLC, the owners of several companies including HRmarketer

 

Our next WebMingle will take place on February 13 when Dr. Lewis Hollweg, President and CEO of Batrus Hollweg International (BHI) joins us. BHI is a human capital consulting firm specializing in Talent Gauging™ — assessing and developing people to drive organizational results. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Hollweg to the WebMingle and hope to have you join us as well.

 

We hope to have you join us!

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

 

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HRchitect’s Beauty Pageant Webinar Series Continues This Friday with Performance Management

February 5, 2009

 

Our beauty pageant series of webinars has become the buzz of the industry. This series of webinars covers a different area of HR technology with each event and is presented two times a month. The concept allows attendees to see presentations from up to six leading vendors in a fun and informative format where the audience votes on the winner at the conclusion. In November, iCIMS won the Talent Acquisitions Systems pageant and Cornerstone OnDemand won the Talent Management Systems pageant. Then in December, GeoLearning won the Learning Management Systems pageant. So far this month we had our Mid-Market Talent Acquisitions Systems pageant and iCIMS was crowned the winner and our Onboarding pageant where SilkRoad was the winner.

 

To view any of these past pageants, please visit the beauty pageant part of our website. We also have a full schedule of 2009 beauty pageants on our site and several vendors have asked that we create beauty pageants around additional topics, which we are currently in the process of scheduling.

 

The next exciting pageant will be on Performance Management Systems this Friday, February 6 where the participants will be Workscape, Sonar6, Cornerstone, SumTotal Systems, and Salary.com.

 

HRIS will take place on February 20 and at this point we have Lawson Software, NuView Systems, Salary.com HRMS & Payroll and Spectrum HR. Several other invites are out but we know how hard it is for some vendors to get up on stage and strut their stuff.

 

The 90-minute webinar agendas will look like this:

 

Intro by HRchitect

Overview of the marketplace by HRchitect

Short vendor presentations (vendor order will be determine at random)

Q&A of vendors from the audience

Crowning of the Winner

Wrap-up

 

The sessions are moderated by Matt Lafata, VP of Sales & Marketing for HRchitect. HRchitect developed a format to help guide each vendor with an outline of what should be covered during each portion of the pageant.  Since we have billed this as a beauty pageant, we tried to come up with pageant categories for vendors to loosely follow. Of course each vendor is free to follow their own format as this is simply a guideline:

 

Evening gown – To start off each portion, we are asking the vendor to come out in their best ‘outfit’ – corporate overview, history, specific identity, financial viability, marquee clients, leadership team, etc. This will be the grand entrance.

 

Swimsuit – Here the vendors will show some skin in this portion – usability, configurability, etc.

 

Talent – This portion will cover functionality, technology/integration, global ability, etc.

 

Interview – This will be the Q & A section from the audience. 

 

These beauty pageants are designed to give the audience a quick overview of the leading vendors and we are looking for creativity in presentations. Some of the past participants have gotten extremely creative in their presentations and we thank them for their time and efforts in doing this.

 

Here is the schedule of upcoming beauty pageants along with instructions for registering:

 

February 6 – 11am CST – EPM (Employee Performance Management)  
February 20 – 11am CST – Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
March 6 – 11am CST – Time & Attendance 
March 27 – 11am CST – Workforce Planning
April 10 – 11am CST – Compensation Management
April 17 – 11am CST – Succession Planning

 

Watch this blog and our web site for updates on all of our upcoming beauty pageants and register today so you won’t be left puzzled by HR Technology!

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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January 30 WebMingle Featured Jigsaw CEO and Co-Founder, Jim Fowler – February 6 WebMingle welcomes GeoLearning

February 2, 2009

 

The month of January contained some great WebMingles featuring Talent Management vendor Cornerstone OnDemand, Workforce Planning Vendors Infohrm and Vemo, and most recently, online business directory experts, Jigsaw. If you have missed any of these, visit our site and listen to the recordings as we have captured some great information.

 

As you may know by now, our weekly web mingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care.

 

The 40-minute WebMingle on January 30 with Jim Fowler of Jigsaw touched on numerous topics including:

 

·         How the evolution of the social Web changed the landscape of HR

·         How HR professionals use technology and Web-based services to get ahead in the economic downturn and how an HR professional can leverage these specific tools

·         What kind of candidate that has emerged because of online networks and communities such as Facebook, Jigsaw and LinkedIn.

·         Some best practices and best approaches to making the first connection, whether for a recruiter, a job candidate or a salesperson

·         How the role of HR is evolving as influenced by the influx of tools such as Jigsaw, LinkedIn and Plaxo

 

About Jigsaw and Jim Fowler

Jigsaw provides an online business directory of company information and more than 11 million business contacts. Over 500 corporations and more than 750,000 members turn to Jigsaw, including HRchitect. Jim is a veteran sales executive and has 12+ years experience selling software for marketing and collaboration applications. Before starting Jigsaw, Jim served as VP of Sales at Digital Impact, Paramark and TightLink. Prior to his career in software sales, Jim owned and operated Lookout Pass, a ski resort in Idaho.

 

Our next WebMingle will take place on February 6 when Todd Premo and Chris Lennon from GeoLearning, the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and on-demand performance and learning platforms and the winner of the December 2008 beauty pageant on LMS joins us. We look forward to welcoming them to the WebMingle and hope to have you join us as well.

 

We hope to have you join us!

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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