Archive for August 28th, 2012

Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar – September 5th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements?

In this live webinar, participants will get new data from IAG’s Business Analyst Benchmark to:

  • Quantify the impact of business requirements on project outcome;and,
  • Describe a path for successful projects and requirements as documented in research and proven out on engagements.

To show how to optimize requirements discovery, we’ll look at the source of typical failures in the requirements discovery process, and describe some of the techniques IAG has proven effective in over 1,000 engagements.In requirements, the devil is in the details.We’ll describe strategies used by IAG in the field to get to the right level of detail for clear, accurate and complete requirements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement in requirements discovery and management is our specialty.We’ll review the proven levers of change used for successful transforming of requirements discovery capabilities at organizations.

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements, and take away an action list that is proven to improve performance.

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements, and take away an action list that is proven to improve performance.

Click to view a previously recorded version of this opportunity.

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Resource Capacity Management

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Live Webinar September 4th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

Click to register for Resource Capacity Management

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Live Webinar September 5th, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar September 5th, 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations now realize that a high-quality user experience can provide competitive business advantage. Enterprises are adopting the technologies and practices pioneered by leading consumer Web properties (e.g., Amazon, Google and Facebook). The challenge is that the Web is evolving toward social and mobile, which means designers must stretch further, to cover these new bases.

Discussion Topics:

  • What is the user experience (UX) design, and how do leading companies use it for competitive advantage.
  • How is the practice of UX design is evolving to meet requirements for mobile and social?
  • Pragmatic approaches that organizations can adopt to best meet evolving UX requirements.

Presenter: Ray Valdes (LinkedIn profile), Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.1 Collect Requirements
  • 5.2 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for User Experience Design: From Web to Mobile to Social

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Live Webinar Conference September 5th & 6th 2012
7 Webinar Sessions Up to 7 hours
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: UP TO 7 Category C Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

This is an excellent opportunity to choose from
7 different sessions on HR Information Systems: Audits, Compliance and Risk Management

Register for the conference & choose
which virtual sessions you would like to attend.

See Below for the session tittles & their Short Descriptions.

A Human Resource Management System (HRMS) or Human Resource Information System (HRIS), refers to the systems and processes at the intersection between human resource management (HRM) and information technology. It merges HRM as a discipline and in particular its basic HR activities and processes with the information technology field.

  • Do you want that competitive edge in your professional space?
  • Do you want to assert your knowledge of current HR topics, trends within your domain?
  • Why not set yourself apart from your peers and get certified with HR.com and the Institutes for Human Resources (IHR).

The Institute for Human Resources (IHR), the certification and accreditation process arm of HR.com, has a program for you! Many HR professionals have a general HR degree or certification with a wide spectrum of HR functionalities learned. The IHR is the only institute that focuses on niche areas within Human Resources. A specialty certification increases your market value, adds value to your work experience, furthers your knowledge, and recognizes you as an industry leader and/or expert in the field.

Click to register for the HR Information Systems: Audits, Compliance and Risk Management

 

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PDU Category C documentation details (for this conference):

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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September 5 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM EDT – Introduction to the Institute for Human Resources HRIS Virtual Event Keynote (Long Description)

This introductory session will give you an overview of the Institute for Human Resources – HRIS certification program, which launched in March 2011 with a two day virtual event. This will mark the sixth virtual event for this great community and to date over 3000 HR professionals have registered for our programs. The purpose of this session is to provide you with the webcast topics and speakers that will be presented over the next two days. All of these webcasts have been approved for HRCI recertification credits

Click to register for Introduction to the Institute for Human Resources HRIS Virtual Event Keynote (Long Description)

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September 5 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT – Using Content Management and Search Technologies to Prevent Blind Spots in Your HR Systems (Long Description)

Your HRIS serves as the hub for storing and managing a mass of employee information, such as benefit elections, personal data, salary, and tax information. In addition, many HR departments deploy additional applications to manage processes that are both task-oriented and document-intensive, such as recruiting, onboarding and performance reviews. While these additional solutions expedite those processes, the information they contain often isn’t accessible – or even visible ‒ from your HRIS.

In this presentation, you’ll learn how content management technology and high-performance search applications can increase the visibility of data and documents from various systems, allowing you to access information more easily and ensure compliance with employment law, privacy initiatives and other mandates.

Click to register for Using Content Management and Search Technologies to Prevent Blind Spots in Your HR Systems

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September 5 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET –Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS): Implementation Best Practices (Long Description)

There is widespread agreement that Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of HR departments. So why is HRIS adoption a relatively slow process? Why do so many HRIS implementations fail? What can you learn about HRIS implementation best practices?

This session will go beyond the benefits of HRIS and explore key issues related to HRIS implementations.

Topics include:

  • Top 5 Reasons that HRIS Implementations fail
  • Implementation Pitfalls
  • Best practices for HRIS implementations
  • A step-by-step approach to maximize your chances for a successful HRIS Implementation

Top 5 Reasons Implementations Fail:

  1. Lack of dedicated resources
  2. Poor data quality
  3. Overly broad scope
  4. Unrealistic time frame
  5. Cumbersome system integrations

Implementation Pitfalls:

  • Inability to attend meetings / trainings
  • Data that is late or has errors
  • Plan or file changes late in the process
  • Trying to implement too many modules at one time
  • General lack of responsiveness (by any of the parties)

Click to register for Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS): Implementation Best Practices

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September 5 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT –From CRM to ERM: Employee Relationship Management (Long Description)

In this webinar, they will cover these “employee relationship management” topics:

  1. The importance of on-going communications with a potential candidate about performance, professional development and business results and how to configure your conversations to show commitment and interest to the prospect.
  2. The value of using a “customer relationship management” approach to employee relationship management is twofold – you gain a big-picture view of all communications with the talent and create “relationship management milestones” that will trigger communications and professional development.
  3. How HR truly supports the strategic goals of the organization through this critical HR role – recruitment – and why a CRM approach will help to facilitate a prosperous relationship between the potential candidate and your organization for years to come.

Click to register for From CRM to ERM: Employee Relationship Management

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September 5 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT – The Power of Integrated HR in the Cloud (Long Description)

Question and explore whether there is a need for integrated HR and whether it really is better in the cloud.

Explore the pro’s and con’s to being one integrated HR Cloud solution from a modular components standpoint, introduce a few integrated solution providers, address the ever looming “cloud security” questions and how integrated cloud hr can save a company time and money today and in the future.

  1. Why Integrated HR – Review a case for bringing all HR components in house into one integrated global core HR system of record. By reviewing individual components of HR we can identify the needs and wants and better understand how these can work better together in one cloud solution.
  2. Why Cloud HR – This is the topic on everyone’s minds today. We will briefly attack the whole “cloud thing” and see how this cloud phenomena can benefit HR Admins and their organizations.
  3. What are the Benefits of Integrated Cloud HR – From what we expose and discover in the previous sections we will briefly explore the power of both Cloud and HR as one globally accessible solution for today’s global social workforce.
  4. What are the Security Risks of Integrated Cloud HR – Always a topic of concern, this is a “must address” requirement in any Cloud conversation, especially Cloud HR as it pertains to private, confidential employee records and personal data.
  5. Who are some of the players in the Integrated Cloud HR space – Sure we are Vana Workforce and we want you to think there are no other solutions in Cloud HR or at least none as good as Vana Workforce, but let’s be honest, there are lots. Some are better than others and some are perfect for your organization. We will quickly and visually identify the leaders, larger and smaller and touch on some of the offerings from the leaders in Cloud HR.
  6. How can Integrated Cloud HR Save Time and Money – YES… the most important question on everyone’s minds always comes down to how cool and app is, how functional it is, and finally the ultimate question; “how much is this going to cost me”. Well the great news is that both Cloud and Integrated will indeed save you both Time and Money. How much is dependent on the solution of choice, the vendor or consultant you are working with and your requirements, but we can cover this in general so that the Integrated Cloud HR truth of Time and Money can be exposed.

Click to register for The Power of Integrated HR in the Cloud

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September 6 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT –Next Practices HRIS- Getting Maximum Workforce Adoption and Alignment to Your Initiatives (Long Description)

The session will give participants both strategic perspectives and practical tips, as well as provide a case study with the Boys & Girls Clubs, around the selection, creation and implementation of new applications that enhance the overall work experience rather than simply compliance or maintenance uses.

  • How to link to technology projects to overall business objectives- not HR but PA (People Apps that work).
  • Building a user experience that truly engages them.
  • Integrating other major initiatives such as intraprenuership and employer branding to your technology launch.

Click to register forNext Practices HRIS- Getting Maximum Workforce Adoption and Alignment to Your Initiatives

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September 6 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT – The Workplace of Tomorrow: How Innovative Companies Adapt and Thrive (Long Description)

According to Charles Darwin, “In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”

In the world today, we are facing major changes that will reshape the workplace of tomorrow. Over the next few decades, the most successful companies will be the ones who adapt well to these changes. Professionals can help their organizations embrace these changes and prepare for the future. Many see these changes as challenges, but they also present us with incredible opportunities. Technology is rooted in these changes and utilizing it effectively can help companies adapt to new workplace demands.

Click to register for The Workplace of Tomorrow: How Innovative Companies Adapt and Thrive

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