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HR 2014 Photo Update: Day 1

If you've been keeping up with ICG on Twitter and Facebook, and if you read my HR 2014 preview from last Thursday, you'd know that through the rest of the week, I'll be attending the HR 2014 Conference in Orlando, Florida. I've yet to speak at HR 2014, but I have had the time to see some wonderful speakers and to take a look around at all of the great things happening at this year's conference. I'll have more photos later, but ... Read more

HR 2014 Preview

  HR 2014, set for next week (March 11-14, 2014 at Swan and Dolphin, Orlando, Florida), is fast approaching, and it's set to be very valuable and informative to those attending. During HR 2013, SAP provided more details about integrating SAP and SuccessFactors along with what their intentions with SuccessFactors were for the road ahead. Customers and colleagues left understanding that a significant shift was taking place, and many left wondering exactly how it would fit within their existing IT structure. SuccessFactors has garnered many more ... Read more

ICG’s Mike Timm Participating in HR 2014 Next Week

If you or your business is an SAP user, or specifically, an SAP HCM user, there are few ways for you to better use your time than attending an HR conference. HR 2014--an annual SAP and SuccessFactors human resources conference--is a conference for SAP and SuccessFactors users looking to improve their knowledge base and drive HR excellence. HR 2014 features 98 speakers and 120 sessions, and is packed with great information for users in the space. This year, as with many previous years, ... Read more

ICG Support and Outsourcing Solutions, Part IV: Variable Cost Structure

This post is part IV of IV in a series about ICG’s support and outsourcing solutions. You can see parts I, II and III here, here, and here, respectively. Be sure to check back later for more posts in the series. Ongoing support is a requirement to provide the most functionality and return on the SAP investment, and to achieve full benefits of the technology. In terms of the final segment of our support and outsourcing solutions, variable cost structure, we can once again break ... Read more

ICG Support and Outsourcing Solutions, Part III: Deploying Best Practices

This post is part III of IV in a series about ICG’s support and outsourcing solutions. Over the coming weeks, we’ll cover each aspect of our support and outsourcing solutions, from global sourcing, to variable cost structure. You can see parts I and II here and here, respectively. Be sure to check back later for more posts in the series. Throughout this series so far, we've covered two key parts of ICG's support and outsourcing solutions: global sourcing, and leveraging technology. But as you ... Read more

ICG Support and Outsourcing Solutions, Part II: Leveraging Technology

This post is part II of IV in a series about ICG’s support and outsourcing solutions. Over the coming weeks, we’ll cover each aspect of our support and outsourcing solutions, from global sourcing, to variable cost structure. You can see part I here. Be sure to check back later for more posts in the series. Earlier this week, we kicked off our series on ICG's support and outsourcing solutions with a post about global sourcing. But as you might imagine, support and ... Read more

ICG Support and Outsourcing Solutions, Part I: Global Sourcing

This post is part I of IV in a series about ICG’s support and outsourcing solutions. Over the coming weeks, we’ll cover each aspect of our support and outsourcing solutions, from global sourcing, to variable cost structure. Be sure to check back later for more posts in the series. In our last series about ICG's implementation solutions, we covered what goes into the actual implementation of our SAP HCM solutions, from project management to go-live and support. But our services--and our process--don't stop ... Read more

What Is Change Management?

In conversations about our services here on our blog, and even in broader conversations about SAP HCM consulting, a term you're very likely to see come up is "change management." But if you're unfamiliar with SAP HCM and HCM solutions, there's a chance that you may not know exactly what change management is, or why it matters. So what is change management, and why should businesses be so concerned with it? Put simply, change management is an approach to implementing changes in an ... Read more

4 Ways for HR to Use Social Media

While SAP HCM represents an incredible opportunity for HR departments to manage their workforce when used correctly, there are other tools and strategies that HR can deploy for recruiting, branding, and even management. In today's day and age, social media is a great tool across all of those aforementioned categories. From recruiting new employees to managing current ones, social media has a surprisingly large number of uses in HR. If you're struggling to find ways to effectively use social media, don't worry. See ... Read more

ICG Implementation Solutions, Part IV: Go-Live and Support

This post is part IV of IV in a series about ICG’s implementation solutions. You can find parts I, II, and III of the series here, here, and here, respectively. The previous three phases we've discussed over the last few weeks, project management, business blueprinting, and realization, lead us to the final go-live and support phase with a level of comfort and thorough understanding of how SAP is set up to run. By this point in the process, the staff has been trained, and support ... Read more
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