Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) is about aligning the human resource policies and practices with the overall business strategy. This approach ensures that the workforce contributes effectively to the company’s goals. It involves planning, developing, and managing HR initiatives that support long-term business objectives.

On-premise, off-premise, or hybrid software deployments. There’s no shortage of options for companies and IT teams looking to create robust, secure, and scalable networks for their employees and end-users. But with more options comes more research and decision-making, as each choice comes with its own benefits and drawbacks that can impact everything from cost to performance and data security.

Employee experience has been in HR and IT leaders’ minds ever since companies started shifting their ethos into a more employee-centric model. It’s no longer a matter of how much an employee can get done but how they can do it while still feeling like they want to keep doing it.Now that employees are in that strange transition period between home-office and hybrid work, everything about achieving an optimal employee experience has been brought to the forefront even more.

Kanban has become a very popular work—or workflow—management tool, especially in the Lean, Agile, and DevOps worlds. It has also found its way into IT Service Management (ITSM) as a way of providing focus and insight into work jobs/tasks and flows, such as ticket queues, planned and unplanned tasks, or projects and improvement activities.

Unlocking the full potential of teamwork is like solving a complex puzzle. It involves a symphony of various professionals, each an expert in their own right. However, aligning everyone towards a shared vision and facilitating smooth collaboration is a task full of intricacies and nuances for any project manager. It's not just about managing the operational aspects of the project; it's about ensuring each team member 'gets' each other, promoting an atmosphere of clear, precise communication.

Verifying email performance is more than the basic understanding of message flow. Outbound mail in the form of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and inbound mail through MAPI or Microsoft’s Graph API only parts of email systems to monitor, usually through pings or basic delivery confirmations. Often, once email is moved to Exchange Online, even basic visibility of mail flow and reliable delivery is lost.

Are you looking for the best employee productivity tracking software in 2024? You are at the right place. In today’s fast-paced, data-driven, and modern working environment, it is essential to know how productive your employees are. That’s where the role of using such software is crucial. Especially, since there is a fine line between what your team does and what it’s expected to do. You need accurate values, for which software for productivity tracking works like a measuring scale.

Capacity planning means ensuring that there is enough time, people, and specific roles to execute projects successfully. It’s a high-level process that proactively evaluates these factors over weeks or months. It influences the type and volume of work your team takes on. And it shapes hiring decisions, too. For example, deciding whether you have enough developers with experience coding in C++ to execute a potential four-month project successfully.

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 9.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Zulip’s 100% open-source software is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution, and is used by thousands of organizations around the world.

These customer experience KPIs can help you quantify success and ensure you’re meeting customer expectations.