{"id":1884,"date":"2009-05-02T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/time-to-scratch-that-7-year-hro-itch\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T09:32:00","slug":"time-to-scratch-that-7-year-hro-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/time-to-scratch-that-7-year-hro-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to scratch that 7-year HRO itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hroworld.com\/\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HROWorld\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/04\/17\/hrow.jpg\" title=\"HROWorld\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So it&#39;s coming again&#0160;this week&#8230; the 7th annual <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hroworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HRO schmooze-fest<\/em><\/a><em> in New York&#39;s plush mid-town Hilton.&#0160; Yes, I&#39;ve been to every bloody one and I swear this will be the last :)&#0160; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This time I am assured there will be:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em>No rubber chicken<\/em><\/p>\n<li>\n<p><em>No dodgy awards<\/em><\/p>\n<li>\n<p><em>Lots of buyers<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, with the industry <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amrresearch.com\/outsourcing\/2009\/03\/outsourcing-hr-in-this-recession-why-this-makes-sense-for-many-multinationals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enjoying something of a revival<\/a>, this should prove to be an interesting experience, with focus on the&#0160;core&#0160;elements of HR operations:&#0160; payroll, benefits, recruiting, talent management and HR\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><br \/>\ntechnology.&#0160; They even recruited yours&#39; truly to talk about the latest trends in the BPO industry, and the important role of HR in broader BPO engagements.&#0160; I&#39;ll also reveal some early results from our current survey on outsourcing adoption trends.&#0160; Come and swing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hroworld.com\/agenda.html#hro3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my session at 1.45pm<\/a> this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other things I am looking forward to (with baited breath) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/08\/the-future-of-hrm-service-delivery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi&#39;s Bloom&#39;s<\/a> <em>Brazen Hussies<\/em>, sponsored by CaliberPoint (will they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/04\/hroworld-2008-a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replace the vol-au-vents with Samosas<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Convergys&#39; annual cocktail party (only time I can ever get anyone from Convergys to buy me a drink)<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hroworld.com\/agenda.html#hro5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industry Leaders Panel<\/a>, featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2007\/05\/why_technology_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Baader<\/a> and Mary Sue Rogers being interrogated by Elliot Clark<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/Search\/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=576977707\">Keith Strodtman<\/a>, HROs&#39; smoothest man<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Dinner with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humancapitalist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Capitalist<\/a>&#0160;(I thought he had been permanently digitized by Twitter, so will be novel to meet some flesh and blood)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#39;re in the Apple, come meet me propping up the Hilton bar each night with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrotoday.com\/news\/3281\/adecco-appoints-michael-beygelman-head-business-development?id=1060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsavory characters<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#39;s coming again&#0160;this week&#8230; the 7th annual HRO schmooze-fest in New York&#39;s plush mid-town Hilton.&#0160; Yes, I&#39;ve been to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,79,87,88],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-hr-outsourcing","category-outsourcing-events","category-outsourcing-heros"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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