About Lori Marra

Lori focuses on designing and optimizing solutions for business application and processes for Blue Crab Consulting clients. Over more than two decades, she has honed her ability to drive HR business transformation through process re-engineering and HR software solutions.
Lori focuses on designing and optimizing solutions for business application and processes for Blue Crab Consulting clients. Over more than two decades, she has honed her ability to drive HR business transformation through process re-engineering and HR software solutions.

Revolutionizing Talent Management: NTT DATA’S AI-Driven Approach

By |2024-02-20T11:50:51-05:00February 15th, 2024|eightfold.ai|

Organizations are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to attract, retain, and develop top talent.  NTT DATA, a global leader in IT services, has embarked on a transformative journey by leveraging the power of AI to enhance its talent management strategies. With their strategic partnership with Eightfold.ai and SAP SuccessFactors, NTT DATA is reshaping the way they recruit, hire, and nurture their workforce.

EMBRACING AI FOR TALENT ACQUISITION AND INTERNAL MOBILITY

NTT Data recognizes that its most valuable asset is its people.  By prioritizing career sustainability and providing avenues for professional growth, the company is creating an environment where employees thrive and contribute to organizational success.  The integration of AI-technologies into its talent management processes has helped in achieving this goal.

EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS

The outcomes of NTT DATA’s AI-driven talent initiatives speak volumes:

  • 128% Improvement in Employee Self-Nominations
  • 109% Increase in Employee Referrals
  • Reduced Bench Time
  • Enhanced
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The Future of SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: Technical Benefits

By |2024-02-20T12:06:02-05:00October 3rd, 2023|SAP SuccessFactors|

With the SAP SuccessFactors transition from Onboarding 1.0 to the redeveloped Onboarding solution, customers will reap a number of technical benefits that arise from by using a product that has an integrated technical platform with the rest of their SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite.

  • Common configuration skillsets
    The SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 1.0 product had an entirely different underlying system design. This meant that any configuration of Onboarding 1.0 required a unique configuration skillset. As an example, retail organizations may have compliance requirements of certain legal documentation for new hires that were not yet adults; this requirement and all its underlying logic had to be configured in Onboarding 1.0 by the client as unique panels, using a technical configuration concept and user interface that didn’t exist anywhere else in SAP SuccessFactors.The new Onboarding leverages the
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SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 1.0 End-of-Life

By |2024-02-20T12:02:04-05:00August 29th, 2023|Blue Crab Consulting, SAP SuccessFactors|

It’s been a long-time coming: SAP has announced the end-of-life plan for SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 1.0. This means that customers will need to transform to SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding Transformations (previously referred to as “Onboarding 2.0”) – a fully-integrated solution for managing the new hire experience.

Some of the new Onboarding features and benefits for customers:

  • Built on the same data model as Employee Central for seamless integration
  • HXM platform homepage tiles – no longer need to manage an external SharePoint portal for New Hires
  • Allows for the mass maintenance of tasks by hiring manager
  • Mobile-responsive user interface
  • Get insight into your processes with embedded People Analytics

With end-of-support just around the corner, it’s important for organizations to take the steps to upgrade. The great news is, BCC can help! With decades of SAP SuccessFactors experience and consultants who were some of the first to test the

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The Candidate Experience: As Easy as Drag and Drop?

By |2020-12-22T11:38:41-05:00December 5th, 2020|Blue Crab Consulting, eightfold.ai|

The typical job hunt is fraught with frustration, second guessing, and the monotony of reading one job description after another until they all seem to blend together. Job candidates are often too hard on themselves, doubting their credentials and qualifications. They may forget to dream about what job they want or ponder what job they could be qualified for, often just searching for the job they’ve always had. 

What if all that could change?

What if the candidate experience could be a positive and transformative one? What if we could remove self-bias, and set candidates free to find the right job based on their skill set and previous experience? 

What if the candidate didn’t even have to job search at all?

Reducing the Job Hunt from Months to Seconds

These aren’t merely hypothetical questions. All of this is actually possible through powerful artificial

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Talent Rediscovery and High Volume Hiring

By |2020-12-28T19:01:42-05:00November 4th, 2020|Blue Crab Consulting, eightfold.ai|

Hiring season has arrived and you’ve just been handed lofty hiring goals with an aggressive timeline. So, what’s next? 

Like many, you begin with a frantic call to your agency or media vendors. Typically, this is when questions begin swirling: Do billboards still work? Are there any hot new tools or job boards we can leverage? Which vendor should we partner with for hiring events? Is radio a viable channel? Programmatic, what is that?

New phrases and technology are constantly surfacing, and keeping up with it all has its challenges.  

Finally, the various media channels are agreed upon, and media contracts and creative assets are expedited. Let’s face it, there is no time to waste. 

Before you know it, you are inundated with applicants. So many in fact that industry standards suggest only about one third can be reviewed. What

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