Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…
April 1, 2009
Which is more important? It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results. Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial…
Be Quick or Be Dead
October 20, 2008
Aside from being the title of a great song from one of the greatest rock bands ever -Iron Maiden- Be Quick or Be dead is a great metaphor for today’s business environment. No matter how you look at it speed is…
Go Team - Get Real Performance from Virtual Teams
September 25, 2008
At SuccessFactors, it is easy to take virtual teams for granted. We began with a global vision, and from the start worked across geographies in virtual teams. Simply put, we got things done - the actual mechanisms, e-mail, PRDs, webcasts,…
Moving Mountains
September 11, 2008
Well, it has been said that man cannot move mountains. Technically, this is true – fortunately people are more flexible than their geography. In fact, with great human capital management, you most definitely can move mountains, and should. Let’s talk…
Unskilled or Incompetent
August 22, 2008
Ask anyone which is worse, an unskilled person or an incompetent person and I’d bet money most will answer incompetent. Why? The difference in meaning is subtle, but profound. An unskilled person can be trained. The word incompetent implies that…
Ready, Willing, but not Able: Succession Planning in Ireland & the U.K.
July 21, 2008
Companies embrace the idea of Succession Planning and Talent Management with great enthusiasm, but rarely put the mechanisms and tools in place to effectively follow through on their initiatives. SuccessFactors Research recently conducted a survey of Succession and Talent Management…
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…
