Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the loud buzz about Cloud Computing. Plugging into the Cloud promises to eliminate the need for lots of on-site hardware, installed software, and disruptive and expensive upgrades for Human Resource departments and Staffing firms. Just think, no more hardware to buy/replace, no more servers to maintain, no more IT staff to pay and no more backups to worry about. HR departments and staffing firms “do not want to manage IT, they want to manage their business”, explains Simon Piff, a practice director for enterprise infrastructure at www.IDC.com , the global IT market researcher. Cloud applications for HR and Staffing also can support fast, scalable, and incrementally priced growth.
VMS nearly ubiquitous
February 28th, 2010 by Sara Moss
VMS systems have been around for over a decade now and while a handful of companies have been working with them for that long, it seems that the number of hiring companies adopting them and the volume of orders and transactions over them are dramatically accelerating. I frequently talk with staffing firms, even small ones, who are on the receiving end of VMS and they commonly see 50+% of their orders from VMS. Leading VMS, Fieldglass, announces that they have passed the 100 client mark in their tenth year, with 33 new clients being added in 2009. Staffing Industry Analysts predicts that 81 percent of large companies will be using a VMS solution by 2011. That level of adoption means that hiring company’s use of VMS is just about to be ubiquitous.
Marriage of Manufacturing & Human Capital
February 25th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
In a recent Supply Chain research report distributed by TEC at www.technologyevaluation.com , they described the 3 main technologies used by manufacturing and distribution companies to automate their businesses and streamline their processes. They explain how these decision support systems worked together to guide and protect them through the up-swings and down-turns of the economy. These 3 “mission critical” systems included ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management) and APS (advanced planning and scheduling).
What The Olympics Taught Me About Supply Chain Management
February 24th, 2010 by Tim Schram
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
- Olympic Creed
I’ve been a huge Olympics junkie ever since the 1984 Los Angeles Games in my home state of California. I think maybe the Team USA site sums it up perfectly for me when talking about Olympic values and the Games:
Guest Post On Staffing Robot On Human Capital Supply Chains
February 16th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Recently, we shared a guest post with Staffing Robot – a blog on healthcare staffing, technology and other topics – on leveraging Human Capital Supply Chains in healthcare staffing.
The Healthcare staffing industry has always had its ups and downs over the past few years and with revolutionary healthcare legislation on the horizon, it is hard to know how to plan for the future. Aside from the whole legislative uproar, we do know 3 important facts that the Healthcare staffing industry needs to prepare for, starting today:
Be sure to visit Staffing Robot and read the full post.
Taking It To The Streets
February 16th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
As the Human Capital Supply Chain concepts starts to build momentum across the country, corporate excutive are starting to pay attention. I received a call from Ed Davis, Managing Director for Staffing at United Airlines extending an invitation to present at SHRM’s Chicago chapter Symposium on May 13th. The title of the presentation will be “Human Capital Supply Chains; Applying Supply Chain Management to your Staffing Organization”. Other presenters will include:
Todd Safferstone, Managing Director, Recruiting Roundtable
Dr. Michael Kannisto, VP Staffing, BASF
Andres Tapia, Chief Diversity Officer, Hewitt Associates
Sam Gillen, VP, Silk Road Technology
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Stuck In Past
February 16th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
In the January 18, 2010 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, writers Peter Coy, Michelle Conlin, Moira Herbst and Carol Matlack penned an article titled “The Disposable Worker”. This negative article painted a picture of temporary workers as abused and undervalued by the corporations who work with them. These writers could not be further from the truth.
Got Your Head In The Cloud?
February 10th, 2010 by Tim Schram
If you haven’t heard the phrases ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Saas’ (Software as a Service), then you may have been hiding under a rock.
Whether you are reading a blog, surfing the Net or leafing through an IT magazine, you’re bound to come across that terminology. Just by doing a Google search for some industry-related words, the numbers are impressive:
- 63,200,000 hits for Client Server
- 29,500,000 hits for Cloud Computing
- 25,500,000 hits for Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 14,300,000 hits for Active Server Pages (ASP)
VMS Is On Its Death Bed
January 28th, 2010 by Tim Giehll
Following the bankruptcy of Chimes and then the bankruptcy of that small healthcare VMS, I thought we were done. But now the Albany Group VMS in the UK had their funding pulled out from under them. Who is next??? Bee Line was bought by Adecco, so they are safe. Which VMS do you feel will be the next to file bankruptcy or be acquired??
Stand alone VMS solutions are like labor unions. When they were started they served an important purpose, but now they are no longer relevant. VMS sounds like a Buggy Whip to me!! Let’s think about why!!
CAPTCHA
January 27th, 2010 by Tim Schram
If you don’t know what that is, please let me save you the trouble of Googling it. It’s based on the word ‘capture’ and is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”
According to Wikipedia, CAPTACHA is a challenge-response test used in computing to ensure the response is not coming from another computer. You’ve all seen it. It’s that little block of text that’s typed in by what’s assumed to be a “human” versus another computer.
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