March 16, 2022 – FRISCO, Tx. – HRchitect, Inc. announced today that Brian Kimball, Executive Vice President of Implementation Consulting Services, plans to retire at the end of the quarter. The Executive Management team, who were notified of Kimball’s intent to retire in early 2021, has appointed Erica Niesse to succeed Kimball effective April 1, Read Article »
Written by Erica Niesse In my almost nine years at HRchitect, I have written over a dozen blog posts. Most of these have been about my love for Workforce Management systems and the key time and attendance processes that drive these systems. While I intend to write many more blog posts about how these systems Read Article »
Troy Robinson is an HCM Integration Engineer with more than 20 years of experience as a software consultant. In his role at HRchitect, he leverages his unique experience as both a consultant and end-user of HCM systems to lead clients through successful workforce management systems implementations. Hometown: Chester, Virginia, which is in the Richmond Read Article »
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Written by Erica Niesse As you no doubt know, COVID-19 has required many businesses to think long and hard about how they interact with their employees. Whether that is the proximity that employees are working in, in relation to colleagues, or how they interact throughout the day, it is going to be important for companies Read Article »
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Written by Erica Niesse There might come a time in your career where you will need to request a Leave of Absence from work. Whether the leave is related to Adoption or Birth of a child, or taking care of a sick loved one, it is important to set up your coworkers for success Read Article »
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Written by Erica Niesse This is the last installment in a 5 part series that will take you through everything you need to know when you’re implementing a workforce management system. You’ve been through discovery, requirements gathering, configuration, and testing. Now, it is finally time to make the software you have Read Article »
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Written by Erica Niesse The most important phase to an implementation has finally arrived – testing. It is time to test the solution that you have invested a lot of time in over the past few months, and it is an exciting time! If you have followed all of the previous implementation steps adequately then Read Article »
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Written by: Erica Niesse Congratulations! If you’re beginning your configuration phase, you have just completed the most difficult phase in a Human Capital Management technology implementation: the requirements phase. Your team worked diligently to align areas of the business and streamline practices to come up with detailed business requirements. Now it is time for your Read Article »
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Written by: Erica Niesse The Discovery phase of the project has just been completed, and now the Requirements phase is about to begin. Sales has transitioned to the implementation team, and the project has been kicked off. During the Discovery phase, you compiled a list of relevant information about current business processes and the needs Read Article »
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Written by: Erica Niesse A successful workforce management system implementation is built on the premise that you know your organization’s requirements from a business process, procedure and policy perspective. In the beginning of a typical implementation, a Business Analyst or Implementation Consultant will work with you to gather your company’s requirements and ask questions to Read Article »
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