Showing posts with label HR andTechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HR andTechnology. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2009

HR, Technology and Technologists -- An Uneasy Relationship

In the "old days" HR and technology were barely on speaking terms, and that worked all right. I remember a disaster recovery committee meeting in the mid-1990's when I was Chief HR Officer for a hospital. The question on the table -- how long can your department continue normal operations if we have a catastrophic event and lose access to technology?in the IT department.

Coming forward to today, not enough has changed from that viewpoint in HR with the result that many key HR technology decisions still get made in the wrong place, by the wrong people and HR realizes too late that they should have been at the table. A few examples: