Monday, November 24, 2008
A successful standards initiative must influence as well as open itself to be influenced. I’ve mentioned in recent posts how HR-XML 3.0 advances the maturity of HR standards by incorporating design best practices and content developed by other groups (Open Applications Group, Inc. and UN/CEFACT). While OAGi and UN/CEFACT have much to offer, there are [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Earlier this year, I wrote a couple posts about the “problem with people” — that is the problem of modeling people within HR processes and systems. Broadly speaking, the problem is that a single person associated with an employer or an employer-sponsored program has a certain set of intrinsic characteristics, but also has characteristics that [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
Links to a few HR interoperability-related items:
LETSI: HR-XML Consortium Seeks Cross-Domain Interoperability“Learning, education, and HR standards communities have very little to show in terms of cross-domain standards interoperability and convergence despite significant investments over a period of more than a decade.” Chuck Allen, Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium, made this assessment of standards that [...]
In some of my recent presentations, I’ve talked about where HR-XML has enjoyed uptake within the broader HR services ecosphere and where it hasn’t. See slides 11 and 12 from the deck embedded below (or if the embed is giving you problems, view here). Simply stated, HR-XML has had some success as a starting point [...]
I concluded my last post, by saying that the vision for HRInterop is to “open up” (community participation), “lock-down” (lock-down IP for confidence and clarity among implementers and contributors), reduce costs, and improve standards quality and utility.
Opening Up
I’ve related in previous posts, that it is a sign of success that HR-XML now has more non-member [...]
HR-XML’s background check (“screening”) specifications are an interesting case study in standards adoption. The screening schemas are the largest and arguably the most complex within HR-XML’s 2.* series of releases, but they also are among the most widely adopted. Why? This has a lot to do with market need and timing. You can trace the [...]