If you’ve read The Coming Jobs War, by Jim Clifton, you know that what everyone in the world is currently interested in is a good job.
Here’s a quick quote from the book:
“Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people [...]

Recently, I read Investing In Workforce Management Tech Is Not Just Smart. You Get An $8 Return Per $1 Invested by Ramon Ray.  The article highlighted a Nucleus Research study that suggested an average company investing in a workforce management system – time and attendance, scheduling, hr, payroll technology solutions creating process workflow efficiencies via automation and data [...]

LeadingAge, a national long-term care association, recently had an article on their website titled, 10 Aging Services Technologies that Belong in Your Organization.  The article listed 10 technology solutions an aging services organization should be equipped with in our modern times.
Here’s the brief version of their list (you can follow the link above to the [...]

Number 1 on Gartner’s Top Ten Technologies of 2012 list is Cloud Computing.  This is because of the Cloud’s scalability and flexibility.  Using Internet technologies a client gains a flexible IT infrastructure, meaning, a client company no longer has to maintain their own IT resources to help maintain any particular software product – that is [...]

In the long term care industry labor costs associated with overtime are the proverbial thorn in the side of administrators as they get pressure to quantify bottom line labor cost savings from the CFO or Director of Operations.
We tend to categorize overtime into two main buckets:

Planned Overtime

Planned overtime essentially consists of overtime that has been [...]

Non-profit organizations are pretty use to stretching their resources beyond their current means.  Given the state of the current economy, even their for-profit counterparts are scrambling for innovative ways to extend their resources.
For non-profits, it may seem like the price of doing non-profit work.  Regardless, of your opinion on that statement it’s safe to say [...]

How are you currently controlling your staff’s overtime expense?  Is your scheduling process efficient?  Do you have the ability to change and create schedules on the fly when call-outs happen?  Does your time and attendance system alert you when your staff is approaching overtime so you can make an informed change to the staff schedule [...]

So you have a time and attendance software that your enterprise has been using for quite a while.  The software has worked well enough for your needs – a few annoyances you’ve had to deal with, but nothing too terrible that would make you consider going through the process of completely changing to a new [...]

Recently, I read a Corporate Report Wisconsin article by Teri Bruns, Technology Perception Yields Business Enlightenment.  Bruns talks about her 2012 transformative predictions brought on by technology.
What stood out to me were her thoughts on technology in 2012.  Specifically, Bruns spoke of technology moving to more of a “strategic offensive weapon” vs. being an “organizational [...]

With continued tough economic times many businesses are simply thankful that they’re managing in our current market conditions.
As a CFO you might be grateful that you’ve been able to maintain your staff this year and haven’t had to downsize or make any dramatic changes to your workforce.
If you’re like many businesses, you’re thankful for the [...]