PIHRA Scope - Fall 2008 - (Page 25) to their specific needs with no more than the click of a mouse. Picture the difference between exhaustive, expensive, 18-month-long or longer, on-premise software implementations and employee training programs versus click-and-use software that can be accessed in minutes and running across an organization in a matter of hours. Software as a service is a matter of practicality and economics for companies today—but as with everything it needs to be sold inside the organization. as a service application that delivers value to the organization. In the end, HR professionals are exceptionally adept at handling and responding to workplace change—it’s how we exist today. But there are such dramatic, unstoppable changes on the horizon of workplace technology, that by championing those changes proactively and selling their benefits carefully to create internal advocates, there’s every chance that HR will seize a more prominent seat at the leadership table sooner rather than later. ■ Diana Van Blaricom will speak at the 51st Annual PIHRA Conference & Exhibition on how “HR Can Break Free From IT.” She is the chief solutions officer for Achievance, Inc. and can be contacted at diana.vanblaricom@ achievanceinc.com or through the Achievance website at www.achievanceinc.com. MAKING THE SALE INTERNALLY Bolton & Company Redefining Benefits Services Knowing what’s coming in terms of technological innovation can help HR departments drive a much more indeBolton provides pendent future for themselves within Superior service and more tools the organization. HR managers can be for your Benefits and Workers’ Compensation needs seen as champions of process change and economic innovation by bringing Find out how you can: new solutions for employee effectiveness to operational management. • Get a Free HRIS/Employee Benefits Admin System That said, you have to have a plan. • Get a Free Health Risk Assessment tool for your Perhaps the most important feature organization of software as a service is its low-risk, high-gain appeal. It’s almost a try-be• Get Free Total Compensation Statements fore-you-buy platform, where small• Attend a Free Workers’ Compensation training course scale success can be used to generate more widespread buy in. This can reContact move the stumbling blocks of limited Ryan Fridborg, MAOD, SPHR financial resources, skeptical IT departEmployee Benefits Broker ments and operational inertia. 626.535.1806 Direct So as opposed to on-premise softrfridborg@boltonco.com Proud Supporter of ware implementations, which are de245 S. Los Robles Ave., Ste 105 ployed company wide with a “big bang” Pasadena, CA 91101 approach and massive capital outlay for License # 0008309 licensing, implementation and training, software as a service limits the risk immediately. Software as a service enables 372862_BoltonCompany.indd 1 4/24/08 4:08:02 PM the deployment of a new software application to a small group of targeted users, perhaps a team or project group, with little or no IT involvement at a low monetary expense. Once success is demonstrated with this group, then the software as a service application should be more easily sold internally and deployed widely across the organization. Even IT, wary of its future, can get on board and be an advocate for a software Fall 2008 PIHRAScope 25 385001_Quest.indd 1 5/30/08 4:20:09 PM http://www.achievanceinc.com http://www.boltonco.com http://www.questcorp.com
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