Most of our competitors claim that providing new employees with the tools they need is part of the onboarding function. Really? It seems to me that providing employees with the tools they need is a permanent part of the employer-employee relationship, in other words an employee lifecycle process. Do managers only requisition a desk and computer [...]
New employee onboarding is a conversion process: a candidate is converted into an employee. Usually, anyway (sometimes a candidate is turned into a contractor - yes, even contractors need to be onboarded). While it’s a sliver of a process that sits between the recruiting and employee life cycle processes, it’s a process that’s sensitive to risk, [...]
Divide it up among every man, woman, and child who is a citizen of the U.S. and it’s over $2300. A family of four would receive nearly $10,000. What could you do with that money? Would you be able to invigorate the economy better than our government?
Don’t get me wrong - I’m [...]
I describe our products to people several times a week, and some of the unique things we do seem like such common sense that I’m amazed that anyone could consider them unique. In this case it was our employee materials requisitioning system, SSR (which stands for “Staff Service Request”). Assuming you’re wondering, our SSR system [...]
I’m asked this surprisingly quite frequently, even though we’ve been talking about paperless business for nearly 2 decades now. The historical paperless movement began much the same way that any business must begin a paperless initiative: by building an e-document storage infrastructure that replaces the bank of filing cabinets and storage boxes. There are many [...]
How many blogs and articles written today are going to start with something like, “Three years ago today, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore”, or “devastated the gulf coast”, or “washed away”, or any number of creative verbs trying to describe the affect that the storm had on so many lives? Mine won’t - I’d prefer it [...]
Like you, I remember vividly what I was doing the morning of September 11th, 2001. I was thinking about it this morning on my way to work, and the memory is full of negative emotions: anger, disgust, hatred, sadness, fear. They’re like an open wound.
I tried to look past the negative emotions. The courage and [...]
I’m back from a 4 week hiatus; did anyone miss me? While our presidential candidates were jetting from battleground state to battleground state, I was also on the road visiting with clients and prospects, though without the luxury of a private jet. A few good books on CD and meeting with great people was award [...]
I work with such a great group of people at Emerald Software Group. It’s humbling. I took my managers on a retreat earlier in the summer and among the strategy discussions, I needed about an hour of content, so I shoehorned in a discussion entitled, “What kind of company are we?” I had no outline, only the [...]
Armed with information from my friends at Forrester Research, I’ve spent much of this year researching marketing and sales processes and, as a result, revising our own processes at Emerald Software. Much of what I learned and applied came from the book, “Groundswell” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. The subtitle summarizes the book well: “Winning in a world [...]