A Great Place to Work
July 14, 2008
Not long ago SuccessFactors Research and thought leader Amy Lyman hosted the webinar The Business Benefits of Being a Great Place to Work. People who love their jobs work harder and do better. It follows then that creating a “great place…
Managing Tomorrow Today
June 2, 2008
I’m happy to present this guest blog from our Thought Leader partner and my friend Dr. Jac Fitz-enz.
Predicting the future is a big business. Economists, financiers, demographers, pollsters and pundits are paid big money for their insights into what might…
Employees Want More Work? (Not Less?)
April 17, 2008
I’m happy to post this guest blog by Doug Klein President of Sirota Survey Intelligence and one of SF Research’s Thought Leader partners. Doug will present findings from resent research on this topic with us in a webinar next week. Join…
Do you look forward to coming to work?
April 10, 2008
While the world is experiencing a war for talent, each region has its own, unique talent related challenges. Indeed there are local talent management phenomena, as Jason Averbook from Knowledge Infusion and I discussed in his recent blog.
In some…
Building bench strength is a myth
February 27, 2008
Why is that? Per definition that would imply that the person on the bench has more potential and capacity than what is currently being used right now. Well how many star players are happy sitting on the bench waiting for…
Is work a place or something you do?
February 5, 2008
Sometime during the movement from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy I think we have collectively mixed this concept up, and so it merits the question today. Work used to be about what you could produce. When we moved…
People are not only an expense post but also a strategic asset
January 3, 2008
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70% of total cost of doing business is people cost
80% of the value of a company is not found on the balance sheet
Why are people only an expense post on the income statement?
Today: Profitable companies see their people…
Give the Gift of Great Performance this Year
December 18, 2007
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present another guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team
The holiday season has different implications for everyone – the sales team is busy trying to close those year-end deals,…
Too Much Information
November 27, 2007
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present this guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team
Typically, we reserve the phrase “too much information” for our coworkers and friends who share just a few too many…
Insource the strategic stuff
November 19, 2007
Cost, talent, or innovation – which of these three challenges will drive Human Capital Management decisions in the future? The answer is easy: all of them. The question of how to address these drivers is a far more strategic and important…
