This post is part our series of HR Technology 2009 related posts.  In case you missed it, check out the Kindle Giveaway we are running in conjunction with this year's conference.

Already day one is over, but what a day its been: After Bill Kutik opened the event, Don Tapscott shared his thoughts on how the net generation is changing the world.  There were many interesting points in his presentation, but I particularly liked Tapscott's description of what he called 'the generation overlap' - where the tastes and behaviours of parents and their children coincide and the introduction of his latest book, Grown Up Digital, through a short clip - The Dumbest Generation:

After leaving that session I met with Allan Schweyer, Principal with the Center for Human Capital Innovation and had the opportunity to ask for his thoughts on this year's conference, the priorities for employers over the next 12 months and how HR should approach them.  Listen to his response in the clip below.

Next on my agenda was Jason Corsello from Knowledge Infusion who delivered an instructive session on why and how to use social tools in the work place, the contents of which was backed-up later in the day with some great real-life examples in the fantastic Talent Management Panel: HR Technology Doesn't Stop In a Down Economy, moderated by fellow Knowledge Infusionist, Jason Averbrook.

The panelists from Target, Dell, Nike and KeyBank shared their experience of building and articulating solid business cases, obtaining budget and implementing broad portfolio's of HR technology to achieve business value.  My tweets from the session can be seen below but to get the full stream search Twitter for #tmpanel.

For me the key take-aways from the session were:

• Repeatable, standardised processes that are globally applicable are the next stage for firms that have assembled broad technology portfolio's
• Present a business case based on the overall benefits that the organisation will enjoy rather than the incremental benefits from individual components - show the total investment and total return, not each line item
• In the fast changing economic environment HR needs to enable social collaboration between workers so that new strategies can quickly be designed and executed

So, a great first day with two more to come - roll on Thursday!

StepStone can be found in booth #315 at Human Resource Executive's 12th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition.

Tags: #hrtechconf, Averbrook, Conference, Corsello, HR, hrtech, Kutik, Schweyer, Tapscott, Tecnology

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