Portal squared

Twice in as many working days I’ve been asked about the relationship between my company’s plans for an enterprise information portal and the HR portal. I typically respond that they are complimentary, the services portal brings access to applications (doing things) and the information portal brings access to information (learning/finding things) and the interesting part happens where the content is married intelligently to the application. Clearly there’s a growing appetite to see these work together.

Logistsics for my travel continue to be ironed out. The actual reason I’m travelling is related to another project, so even though I’m going to get added value by taking time in each location to work with employees and HRs I need to makes sure I’ve included local management or I risk alienating them with an “I’m from Corporate…and I’m here to help” type of approach. Again, I’d really appreciate hearing what you’d do about either getting or giving advice on how people of all types manage HCM applications and services.