Tablets, Social(izing) & Impressing the Neighbors – KronosWorks 2012

This week was all about our 15th KronosWorks annual customer conference.  This is the crescendo of our annual marketing plan at Kronos, bringing together over 2100 attendees from around the world. We spend the 5 days of KronosWorks sessions celebrating customer success stories, bonding with those customers over drinks and dinner, and reminding ourselves of how far Kronos has come as a company in 35 years.  It’s not the same as being there, but you can watch a bit of the general session here, including remarks from our terrific CEO Aron Ain.  The photo to the left is of a portion of a mural that an artist created real time during his speech – an infogram on the fly if you will.

As in many businesses, our days can sometimes be spent focusing on making things better for customers – especially those who need our help because something’s not going right.  Having so many happy customers at an event like KronosWorks reminds me that we do an awful lot of things right – and have for years.  The stories customers shared about the transformational results they’ve achieved with Kronos were awesome.  We had several guests from the analyst and blogger community in Las Vegas this week who were learning about Kronos for the first time.  One said to me, “I had no idea how cool you guys were!”.  This was in response not only to our announcement of Workforce Tablet, but also the friendliness and openness of the Kronos employees and executives they were meeting.

The use of social media by KronosWorks attendees increased sharply this year, especially on Twitter.  You tweeters can check out #kronosworks12 to find hundreds of comments made during the event.  One really intriguing session I attended was conducted by SHRM’s Curtis Midkiff via Google+  Hangouts.  You can watch the entire session here to get a flavor for this very cool (and virtually free) means of sharing “live” experts virtually.

If you’d like to see what press, analyst and blogger attendees at KronosWorks had to say, check out the following links:

• Mark Smith, Ventana Research – Kronos Takes Tablets and Tasks to Workforces
• HR Bartender – Managing In the Moment – Your Profitability Depends On It
• Blogging4Jobs – Can Your Business Leverage Big Data & Manage in the Moment?
• PJ, TEC – Kronos Launches Workforce Tablet
• Blogging4Jobs – Mobile at Work. It’s Not Just About Career Pages & Recruiting
• Healthcare Finance News – The Importance of Successful Staffing Processes
• Healthcare Finance News – ‘Moneyball’ Subject Billy Beane Discusses Analytics In Hiring
• Retail Technology Review – Kronos Introduces Workforce Task Management
• RIS News – Kronos Debuts Workforce Tablet
• Softpedia.com – Kronos Tablet Provides Enterprise-Level Management Apps
• TMCNet.com – Kronos Workforce Tablet Makes Workforce Management More Efficient in Real-Time
• UCStrategies.com – Kronos Releases Its Workforce Tablet for Enterprise Workforce Management
• Management Today – Ten Top Tips: Dealing with Persistent Absenteeism (repost of a blog by Simon Macpherson)