On-Demand is a power plant
December 27, 2005
A pretty good article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Christmas day about On-Demand software. More or less a primer on On-Demand, it profiles a number of SaaS (Software as a Service) companies including RightNow, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. Here’s a snippet…
On robots and performance reviews
December 20, 2005
The seeds of an interesting conversation are planting themselves here with this post called "So that’s why my peformance reviews sound like they were written by a robot" and here at systematicHR (especially in the notes by our good friend regina.)
The…
WooHoo, it’s performance review time
December 19, 2005
Over the weekend, Newsday - a NY newspaper - published an article called "Hey, boss, improve those performance reviews" that quoted some of the stories that have been submitted to our Worst Review contest. The article is about some of the reasons…
Succession planning beef, anyone?
December 14, 2005
Sometimes all the high-level talk about performance management can leave you - how should I put this? - wanting more. Today I sat through a 45 minute webinar that left me thinking - "alright, I know you CAN do it,…
On-demand HR apps for SMBs
December 14, 2005
Interesting report from AMI Research showing that On-demand HR applications are taking off among small and medium sized businesses. There’s a very strong case to be made for software as a service (SaaS) use among SMBs - low upfront costs, easy…
SAP/Oracle ignoring HR?
December 13, 2005
Jason Corsello asks the question about SAP after attending the company’s Industry Analyst Conference in Las Vegas. Apparently, not much time was spent on it - Jason says 15 minutes out of two days. Then, DubDubs wonders about Oracle - saying that…
Best friends forever: HR and Marketing
December 12, 2005
Frank "The Proposalnator" Lynn (author of this recent post) points me to an article in Fortune called "For Happier Customers, Call HR." It echoes something I heard recently at a talk given by the legendary Jac Fitz-Enz - namely that unless marketing…
Purposeless platforms
December 12, 2005
Greg Gianforte from RightNow Technologies published a piece in BusinessWeek Online today about the validity of the software "platform" concept. In his mind, a platform (like Oracle’s upcoming Fusion) is something customers don’t need or want and that doesn’t solve any…
Frank Lynn guest posts: It’s a trust issue
December 8, 2005
One of my favorite 80’s TV shows was Sledge Hammer. Hammer was an offbeat cop in the Get Smart/Monk tradition who had a great tagline: “Trust me. I know what I’m doing.” This was the ultimate ironic statement because his…
More on forced ranking
December 8, 2005
As a followup to a previous post on forced ranking, I thought you’d like to see this article at workforce.com. It reprints an appendix from Dick Grote’s new book called Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work.
It’s a memo from a CEO…
