Human Resources

Employee evaluation time around many offices is the grown up equivalent to a student waiting to receive his or her report card.

E-mail is a seemingly mundane issue but one that demands careful attention from the CIO.

A year after its release, PeopleSoft

In February 1999, 120,000 employees of Norwest Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were worried about how a forthcoming merger would affect their benefits. Faced with the prospect of handling questions from the employees, the administrative arm of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo decided to implement a new knowledge-management system for its human resources call centre employees.

Metadirectories can solve this problem by automatically coordinating changes to all application directories.

Are you looking for that magic software that will help automate your manufacturing, order entry, accounting, purchasing, warehousing, transportation and human resources? Are you trying to reduce inventory and still have the right product in the right place at the right time, price and condition? Are you up to your eyebrows in paper trying to provide production outlooks or sales forecasts?

It was an interesting experience, but one I don't care to repeat. I went to work one day only to find I no longer had a job. The business unit I worked for focused on the creation and operation of business-to-business digital marketplaces. With the recent downturn in Internet-based technologies and the economic slowdown, business had dropped and corporate management had to make some cuts. And unfortunately, I was one of those cuts.

Reg Alcock is a Winnipeg MP who has made it his mission to identify and explore the significant changes that are and will be occurring in government as a result of IT.