Police deploys HR platform

Surrey Police has deployed a human resources (HR) software platform to help plan major staff restructuring, states Computer World.

The force went to HumanConcepts to deploy its OrgPlus Enterprise workforce decision support and charting system. Since implementation, OrgPlus is said to have improved data accuracy and provided visibility into the force's hierarchy. The software has also been used to plan and model future organisational options.

Surrey Police's HR planning team needed to conceptualise a smaller command structure to simplify the organisation and reduce costs.

A Melbourne HR software company NGA.NET, has broken into the US market, says Sydney Morning Herald.

Mike Giuffrida, chief executive of NGA.NET, said listening was the key. ''Customers kept saying, 'this is the problem we need to solve, this is the problem we need to solve', and in partnering and collaborating with them, we found we had this end-to-end HR system,'' he says. ''Now we have demonstrated that our solutions here in Australia are very much best practice in other parts of the world.''

NGA.NET's US deal came as the company was revealed the winner of the 2011 The Age D&B Business Awards' IT and business services category.

Twenty-five IT and HR government officials from different provinces in China recently visited Sacramento to learn how local HR experts, state agencies and private-sector companies handle these issues, says Business Journal.

They acquired skills on how to replace retiring baby boomers and find new staff to maintain old technology and also find ways to overcome tight government finances and how to recruit the next generation of employees in a changing information technology work force.

The Sacramento Area Human Resources Association, Intel, and representatives from California's HR modernisation project hosted the delegates in cooperation with a non-profit group called the US-China Exchange Council.