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Safety Board Uses Virtualization to Stop Server Sprawl, Support Test Environment

In Ontario, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board WSIB provides workers compensation for employees and helps companies improve workplace safety. WSIB chose Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to automate server provisioning. The IT operational staff cut time required to provision servers to test and deploy software that supports WSIB activities. Now...

Tags: Workplace, Workers Compensation, Virtualization, Environment, Board, Server, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-10-09

States use GPS-enabled devices to enhance social worker safety

States use GPS-enabled devices to enhance social worker safetySocial worker safetyMississippi has issued GPS-equipped cell phones to 450 field workers. The phones can also be used to take photos of children and their home environments and record audio field notes that can be uploaded to the state's caseworker database.-----------smithsandtitle

Tags: Handhelds, Benefits, payroll solutions, GPS, worker, workers compensation

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

States use GPS-enabled devices to enhance social worker safety

In spite of the high demand for social workers, state welfare agencies are seeing a shortage of skilled workers replenishing the industry. With baby-boom retirements, high turnover rates and relatively low salaries, not to mention the occasional dangerous situation, some states are equipping their frontline caseworkers with Global Positioning System...

Tags: workers compensation, worker, social worker, GPS

Blog posts 2007-03-21

White Paper on Data Quality

This paper is intended to identify challenges and opportunities that present themselves with respect to maintaining and improving the quality of workers compensation data. It will explain the value and nature of workers compensation data commonly collected and used by The Workers Compensation Insurance Organizations WCIO members. The paper presents...

Tags: Data Quality, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation Data, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Databases, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-07-01

Additional Resources

A modest proposal to fix the primary care shortage

Talk is cheapI am in the medical field. I have been hearing for many MANY years now how we will solve the primary care shortage by paying primary care docs more and specialists less, then a big fight ensues. And IMHO the stupidity of that proposal misses the obvious: If...

Tags: Benefits, primary care shortage, care shortage

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Reports: HP cutting more EDS salaries

Updated: HP is reportedly cutting salaries of EDS workers again. It's the second round of salary cuts for EDS staffers since HP acquired the services giant. According to the Dallas Morning News and television reports, EDS workers have been notified that another round of pay cuts is...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Salary, Worker, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Indexyou forgot the parasite employees that cause the falling ROA."The paradox of falling ROA alongside growing productivity is explained at least in part by the rising total compensation of knowledge workers and other talented employees"?????!!!!!!!!you've forgot the blood sucking...

Tags: Benefits, Personal finance, ROA, Global Collaboration, New Tricks, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Insurance Service Provider Boosts Value of Information Assets With New CMS Tool

The National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. NCCI offers workers compensation insurance information on its custom-built Web portal. However, manual content management processes that required IT involvement hindered NCCI employees' ability to update content on the portal and keep up with archiving old data. Also, an outdated tool negatively impacted...

Tags: Asset, National Council On Compensation Insurance Inc., Tool, Content Management System, Portals, Web Technology, Content Management, Insurance, Financial Planning, Benefits, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-06-25

Open letter to all HR software vendors

HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...

Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-15

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrent

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrentFirst off.. its no longer called EMR.. its called EHR.. and oh the holesHIPAA is not the reason EHR is not being adopted quicker. Its money. Many of the software EHRs already have built in encryption for communication(no external devices needed!) and secondly HIPAA,...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Insurance, HIPAA, goverment, eHR, EMR

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Sage and the Economy â€" Two things that should turn around

Sage is a large, albeit understated, software provider that sells a multitude of applications that a significant number of people and firms use. Through acquisitions, the company has amassed a large portfolio of products that include brands such as AccPac, ACT, Timberline, MAS, Abra and many more. ...

Tags: Brand, Channel Partner, North America, Sage, Sue, Public Relations, Sales Strategy, Branding, Sales Force Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-17

The Sullivan Group a Marathon Technologies Customer

I've spoken with the good folks of Marathon Technologies on several ocassions see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM and Marathon Technologies and Microsoft dance together. This time, I had the opportunity to speak with  Erika Simpson, Network Administrator, and Rob Jones, IT Director, a user of Marathon's everRun VM, from...

Tags: Software, Marathon Technologies, Sullivan Group, SamWare, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Why health reform remains possible

Why health reform remains possibleFrank LuntzThis speaks volumeshttp://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009051907/secret-right-wing-strategy-health-care-exposedPDF - http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdfWhat socialized healthcare.....Nothing is free, and when you get through socializing the entire US economic system into a Government ran quagmire with Trillions of dollars of debt with an endless array of red tape.Wake me up when this nightmare is over...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?

Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employees

HP imposes more salary cuts for EDS employeesMUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEEEEEEE! Yesssss!!!!!! Go for it, HP! Hopefully, you will put them out of business, just like you want to, after all two or three remaining competent people quit, and the other thousands have no place to go for answers and help. This is...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, pay cut, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., salary cut

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Upgrade talent for the economy to come

Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...

Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Nortel to cut 3,200 more employees

Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...

Tags: Compensation, Employee, Performance, Nortel Networks Corp., Equity, Benefits, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Sanity check: State of the IT profession 2009

In light of the release of our 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report, I have assembled a set of observations about the current state of the IT profession. Here are the areas of strength and the most significant challenges. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" We the people...

Tags: Information Technology, Survey, IT Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-02-24