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…

SaaS is about results

June 27, 2006

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ShinycarShinycarMy favorite SaaS blogger, Phil Wainewright, has a great post from last week about the real benefit of SaaS: It lets everyone focus on results.

He puts it better than I could:

Now, for the first time since that wrong turn the…

Catch the wave

April 6, 2006

Yankee LogoJason Corsello of The Yankee Group (who writes a blog in his spare time and has a nice looking dog called Larry) in his growth forecast for the talent management market says: “”As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and global, companies that…

Dear IT, fear not On-Demand

March 28, 2006

Fear of the unknownOften, we run into opposition from the IT departments at potential customers. A frequent refrains goes: “We should just go with our ERP vendor. It’s the safe bet.”

Remember the old saying that went: “No one ever got fired for buying IBM?” Well…

I see your 400k, and raise you a million

February 23, 2006

I was wandering around the Internet today as I tend to do. It’s a nice place, you should visit. Anyhoo – I landed at the SalesForce.com website. Anytime I’m looking for enterprise software communications best practice, I end up there. It’s…

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…