Michael Specht

An interesting article appeared today on Computerworld about the success of the Department of Defence’s PeopleSoft implementation. I feel it is great to see HR/Payroll implementations making the mainstream IT press, however items that are more positive would be nice. This one along with review on the Federal Government’s success both seem to leave me [...]

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I read Jeremy Zawodny’s blog for several reasons, none of which typically has to do with HR or HR software or even the usage of technology within HR so I was interested to find his entry on someone being fired for blogging. I followed his links to read the story from the lady in question. [...]

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I published in July a listing of trends from 2001, here is my first recap.
This trend is certainly becoming reality, and is the most requested feature from our HR clients and the most miss understood. We all know the pain it is to remember multiple passwords, and we have all probably forgotten our far share [...]

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This is a follow up post from before HR Week. The results and benefits of a WFA project are directly related to the quality of the data that you have. You can have the sexist technology and the biggest servers, most number of metrics, but without good quality data you will fail.
WFA is not new, [...]

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Well another random thought. I think I might remove the HR side of this blog as I seem to post about lots of other things. Maybe more thought is required. I am currently sitting in Qantas Club at Melbourne Airport waiting for my flight home. Strangely I have been trying to book my next trip [...]

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Ok, this post has nothing to do with HR or technology.
I have just spent the last 5 minutes whale watching from my office at King Street Wharf! For those of you who do not know where King Street Wharf is, it is opposite the Maritime Museum, near the Aquarium.
There were 2 whales having a swim [...]

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Yesterday I spent several hours of my day at The Westin in Sydney at HR Week, we started late due to Sydney’s rail network (again).
The Boral presentation had a couple of learning points for me. The first was that they did not implement call logging and call centre type technology on their phones. Maybe it [...]

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Welcome all to HR Week, I hope everyone gets a chance to attend a session. Over the last several days I have been preparing for my part of the HRIS SIG’s session on Workforce Analytics. I will be sharing the stage with John Macy and Linda Cameron to discuss the different aspects of WFA both [...]

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I found this short entry still in draft mode, I thought it had been published.
Wow! I am always amazed at the Japanese. Here someone is proposing the track kids via RFID. Given the discussions going on in Australian just about tracking goods with RFID I doubt this will take off here.
Japan school kids [...]

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Just found this, looks and acts very similar to the new Sensis service, however it is easier to use and quicker to find things.
Give it a go and see what you think.
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