SuccessFactors Professional Edition Interview: Andy Cohen and Ligia Zamora
October 31, 2005
SuccessFactors last week released "Professional Edition" a version of our workforce peformance management application for small and medium sized businesses. The idea is that by embedding the best practices we’ve learned from our 300+ implementations, we can help smaller companies…
SaaS Fixes Bugs Faster
October 27, 2005
Further justification for the on-demand model: get bug fixes faster. If anybody tells you software doesn’t break - they’re lying. Software is fallible. Sometimes the best QA misses the most tiny error that only one person in a billion will…
Poor Succession Planning Hurts
October 27, 2005
This article at Management Issues brings home the fact that poor succession planning can really hurt a company. According to the article, when a top executive leaves a public company, stock prices tend to fall. But when the company has no…
Proof that Elvis Lives (at HR Tech)
October 26, 2005
I was telling the truth. Our CEO, Lars Dalgaard really did dress up like Elvis at the HR Tech show in Chicago last week. And here are the pictures to prove it. Click the thumbnail for a bigger version.
I’m Interviewed at IF
October 26, 2005
IF (a blog for brand planners and creative thinkers) published an interview with me today. We spoke about the nature of corporate blogging and some of the thinking that goes into producing this blog.
HR Tech Conference Evaluation
October 25, 2005
Thought you might be curious to see what I thought of the HR Tech Conference in black and white. So here’s a scan of the evaluation form I filled out. In general, I thought the conference was worthwhile but I was…
Configuration vs. Customization
October 25, 2005
At the HR Tech show last week, I was confronted with a classic question. "If I want X, can your software be configured to do it, or will I need customization?" According to Frank, our RFP Guy, “customization” has become…
FastCompany Feedback
October 24, 2005
This month, FastCompany is printing the feedback to its cover story last month entitiled
"Why We Love to Hate HR." Apparently there was a huge volume of responses (43% for and 57% against the article).
My favorites:
For
The fundamental problem with HR is…
Jake Adger Guest Posts: Employee ROI
October 24, 2005
Please forgive a newbie to blogging, but here I go…
A really interesting article from Veritude recently brought to my attention to the idea of measuring Employee ROI. The article puts forward the following issue –
“Executives rank productivity as the most…
HR Tech: Dr. Jac Fitz-enz’s Closing Keynote
October 21, 2005
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Jac briefly at our exhibit booth and I was really glad to see that he was the closing keynote at the show. I certainly didn’t see every speech or every session, but…
