Your New HR System - Getting the right Technology.
What you'll learn
- HR professionals will learn how to: a) Build a case for new HR software
- b) Understand the background work necessary to identify the right HR system
- c) Learn how to use product demonstrations to best advantage
- d) Have a step-by-step plan to follow throughout the project
- e) Avoid the many pitfalls that cause problems in sourcing HR software
Requirements
- Anyone who is in HR or interested in a career in HR or payroll should take this course to learn the tech side of HR
Description
HR Technology is now an integral part of Human Resources operations, streamlining processes, increasing efficiency and saving time and resource. However, it is also an area that is littered with failures, usually due to HR professionals not having the right know-how to get the selection and / or implementation right.
The sourcing, selection and implementation of HR technology is going to land on the plate of every HR professional during their career, almost certainly more than once, as the lifetime of technology shortens rapidly, mainly due to technological advances generally, currently those in Artificial Intelligence. Successfully negotiating such a project will become a standard skill set for every HR professional.
In 1995, only 23% of small businesses in the US used HR software; over 25 years later, that figure is now 89%.
Our recent investigations suggested that there were at least 3000 HR technology vendors in the USA, and round 600 HR technology vendors in the UK alone, so you can imagine the wealth of choice available on a global basis. The odds against of picking the right one are not favourable!
A 2024 Gartner survey found that only 24% of HR employees believed their HR function was maximising the business value of their HR technology, and only 35% were confident that their current HR tech approach helped achieve business objectives. The potential for improvement is huge.
Another study by Sapient revealed that over 50% of responding organisations were considering changing their HR tech over the succeeding 12-24 months, indicating high levels of dissatisfaction with their current applications generally due to either the wrong software being chosen, a poor or incomplete implementation, or advances in technology turning the current software into a legacy system that no longer serves the needs of organisation.
If you get it right, HR software will lift a large burden of routine admin from the HR department and enable the function to deliver more value and – crucially – give management access to vital information. HR data is a increasingly important factor in management planning.,,
This course will simplify the whole story so that you can plan with confidence and reduce your chances of going wrong.
Denis W Barnard, the course author, has an enviable record stretching over a couple of decades that his shortlists always included the one ultimately selected by the client. All his accumulated knowledge and experience lie behind this course together with those of his colleagues.
The course takes you through the whole process starting with building a business case for purchasing a new HR system – whether for the first time or as replacement, developing a profile of the required solution and then organising product demos to arrive at a selection decision.
After that, you move to the implementation project plan, getting a project manager to drive it, passing through configuration to your specification, user testing the software and data and the on to the Go-Live.
After this, it’s a question of adapting and developing your system to solve more issues and form a data powerhouse for your organisation.
The course has been compiled to give you the right amount of practical knowledge and tools with special emphasis on avoiding the many traps and maximising the chances of a successful result. The skills acquired here are generic and will apply to any territory around the World.
The course is delivered in a logical time sequence and is deliberately non-technical for all levels of experience. After each course section there are Top Five Tips for you relevant to that topic.
There are screens and text collateral accompanying the whole course, together with a set of questions at each stage to test out what you’ve learned and those answers can optionally be directed at the instructor for his assessment and commentary.
Good luck on your journey!
Who this course is for:
- HR professionals who are proposing to embark on getting a new HR software system;
- Everyone who works in HR who should have good knowledge of HR technology
- Students of HR or General Business who need to know this vital part of a business operation
Instructor
I am a consultant specialising in the selection of HR technology, acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading figures in the field.
Over the years I have worked in a broad range of sectors, Local Government, Higher and Further Education, Music, Media, Technology, Manufacturing, Brewing and Retail to name just a few.
From 2008-2015, I founded and operated the HRcomparison website which at the time was the only site of its kind in the UK dedicated solely to HR & payroll software.
Currently I am a partner in the HRSoftwareFinder online selector tool.
Apart from my consultancy work, I spend a significant amount of time producing articles, webinars, and seminars on HRIS topics. I am a director of the specialist GreenRiver Technology World consultancy.
In 2017 I published "Selecting and Implementing HR & payroll software" (2017)ISBN-13: 978-1537720401 updated in 2019, and then in May 2023 I published"Mission:HR" ISBN-13: 979-8393908607 offering a new definition of the true mission of HR