Why this blog on HR Technology?

This was long before Time Magazine pitchforked me from ‘virtual’ obscurity to global limelight by bestowing the title of “Time Person of the Year”.Years back,while performing one of those customary googling when traversing the WWW, I accidentally encountered the world of blogs

Ever since that moment of inspired serendipity, life has never been the same again. Barring that good, old habit of reading hard covers, blogging probably relegated every other interest of mine to lesser importance, including my wife(:

It’s difficult to fathom why blogging has occupied such primacy in my life. But I am not complaining.If not for blogging, how else would this nondescript individual, lost in anonymity of some miniature cubicle of an high rise building, performing largely dreary and banal job, could have found himself and expressed to the world.

Never mind that my ravings, rantings and ruminations, manifested here ,does not attract more than 5 to 6 eternal faithfuls. As they say “Journey is the Reward’. Without iota of doubt in this journey of self-discovery, blogging has been truly rewarding experience as my woefully limited world-view continues to be challenged , some time even giving way to broadened perspective.

While http://prasannavishy.blogspot.com/ will continue its no-holds barred tirade and scathing commentary of the Indian Political/Social/Media scene, the new blog of mine will be on my vocation- HR Technology.

Existing and emerging cutting edge technology offers tremendous possibilities for HR Profession to operate, at qualitatively and quantitatively different plane altogether .Technology, not only opens new vistas for HR to deliver basic employee services more effectively but promises to address some existential predicament that has been plaguing HR –especially on strategic value it can add to the business. Workforce Analytics especially, if deployed well, can answer many profound critics of HR ,who seem to be ever increasing tribe.

This blog will endeavour to understand the trends/usability issues/deployment strategies/products/staffing/adoption/data issues in the realm of HR Technology.Also developments and research in HR Domain that will affect HR Technology adoption will also be dissected

Only time will tell if these objective of the blog is achieved but what it will defintely do is mirror my evolution as a HR Technology professional. So either it could turn out to be incoherent rambling of uninformed observer or useful addition to the vibrant critique on HR Technology space.

Need to add a caveat here. Highly regimented nature of my current job(I do plain and simple backend ERP user support for one region) does not provide me too much visibility to HR technology plans / roadmap of the organization I work for . Though part of the extended HR Technology group,I am at best , interested end user of several HR Application that run here. Because of this tenuous linkage , my understanding and articulation of issues might will be limited.

I will try to post as regularly as possible One great incentive of being IT Professional is that euphemistic ‘Warming the bench’, constituting some portion of your job description. While the munificence of continuing to get paid handsomely during these periods of heightened professional idleness and indolence is taken for granted, the joy of plunging headlong, in to your private passions is unbridled. I promise to use these periods to good effect

Obviously hazards like profession etiquettes and profile of potential readership demand that i adopt polite, refined and ‘politically correct ‘ discourse ,none of which was too much evident in my other blog

I hope you patronise this blog and also occasionally comment.Even if you dont,blogging continues (: