Drive Real Business Value with an HRIS Strategy
An HRIS roadmap that is aligned with your organization’s priorities provides a clear path forward for both HR and IT.
Onsite Workshop
If the organization overlooks the need for a comprehensive HRIS strategy the impact will be felt company-wide through:
- Poor integration, redundancies, and inefficient workarounds.
- Misalignment with HR, IT, and the business.
- Misallocation of resources.
By taking the time upfront to create an HRIS strategy, the organization will have:
- A holistic view of the current IT environment, the future direction, and the initiatives required to achieve the desired future environment.
- A nimble, reliable, and efficient response to strategic objectives.
- An HRIS strategy that contains a technology roadmap, stemming from an analysis between current and desired states, while considering objectives and capacity.
- A demonstration of how to minimize risk, lower costs, and increase output as well as promote competitive advantage through people, processes, and technology.
Module 1: Conduct an Environmental Scan
The Purpose
- Understand the importance of creating an HRIS strategy before proceeding with software selection and implementation.
- Learn why a large percentage of HRIS projects fail and how to avoid common mistakes.
- Set expectations for the HRIS strategy and understand Info-Tech’s HRIS methodology.
- Complete a project charter to gain buy-in, build a project team, and track project success.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A go/no-go decision on the project appropriateness.
- Project stakeholders identified.
- Project team created with defined roles and responsibilities.
- Finalized project charter to gain buy-in.
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1.1 | Set a direction for the project by clarifying the focus. |
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1.2 | Identify the right stakeholders for your project team. |
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1.3 | Identify HRIS needs, barriers, and enablers. |
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1.4 | Map the current state of your HRIS. |
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1.5 | Align your business goals with your HR goals and objectives. |
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Module 2: Design the Future State
The Purpose
- Gain a thorough understanding of the HRIS-related pains felt throughout the organization.
- Use stakeholder-identified pains to directly inform the HRIS strategy and long-term solution.
- Visualize your ideal processes and realize the art of the possible.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Requirements to strengthen the business case and inform the strategy.
- The art of the possible.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Requirements gathering. |
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2.2 | Sketch ideal future state processes. |
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2.3 | Establish process owners. |
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2.4 | Determine guiding principles. |
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2.5 | Identify metrics. |
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Module 3: Create Roadmap and Finalize Deliverable
The Purpose
- Brainstorm and prioritize short- and long-term HRIS tasks.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand next steps for the HRIS project.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Create a high-level implementation plan that shows dependencies. |
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3.2 | Identify risks and mitigation efforts. |
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3.3 | Finalize stakeholder presentation. |
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