Why Process Matters
February 11, 2009
(Eriks note - Written by Keith Messick, SuccessFactors Research)
I have a job that most people would find either very interesting or very boring. I’ll let you decide which, but essentially my job is to help people quantify the financial benefits…
Comfortably numb…
January 8, 2009
Though being one of the best songs ever by Pink Floyd when Roger Waters was still with the band it should have little to do with how a business or for that sake the biggest administration in the world is run.…
Carrying Rocks or Building a Castle
December 15, 2008
What does it take to truly build something? Plans? Yes, plans are important. Materials and People? People are the most important factor when building anything. Before you can start to look at plans and gather materials, your people must be…
Make it Simple, Fun and Relevant - Part 2
December 8, 2008
Last week we discussed the three pillars on which we build our user experience. In addition to those three pillars, there are eight guidelines that we follow to ensure that our user interface is fun, simple, easy to use, and…
Make it Simple, Fun and Relevant - Part 1
November 30, 2008
Often when meeting with customers and prospects I get the question: how do we make SuccessFactors so easy to use for managers and employees across the world? The question always arises from HR pros when I explain that we don’t…
Gen-Probe Proves Companies can Win Through People
November 19, 2008
We often talk about the advantages of using talent and performance management systems to drive results and gain a competitive edge over other organizations. Our research and the research of our thought leader partners shows how human capital management really…
Stack Ranking Employees Works
November 17, 2008
Now more than ever, organizations need to optimize their workforce in today’s economic climate of falling revenues and shrinking profits. Companies have long used stack-ranking to manage their people and identify employees to manage out or up, GE for example…
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…
Economic Downswing: Let’s not make the same mistakes again
October 9, 2008
Making mistakes can be a good thing if you learn from them. Making the same mistakes again and again is stupid and costly.
The economy goes in cycles. I know it feels like a long time ago, but do you…
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,…
