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Leveling the Playing Field
Read more: Leveling the Playing FieldI’ve always wondered about the benefits of doping in professional sports. Once, I read about a journalist who decided to dope just to find out if it really was that dramatic at providing performance increases, and not only was he stronger, have significantly more endurance, but he also seemed to start reverse aging (age spots…
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Creating the Employment Brand
Earlier this year, John Sullivan wrote a great piece on employment branding that I thought I would bring back to life. In it, he describes some great steps to creating a brand as well as advertising that brand once developed. I’d like to highlight just a couple of points here and then send you along…
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McKinsey on SaaS
“Several factors are spurring the growth. New software design and delivery models allow many more instances of an application to run at once in a common environment, so providers can now share one application cost effectively across hundreds of companies—a vast improvement on the old client-server model. Bandwidth costs continue to drop, making it affordable…
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Anonymous Public Peer Reviews
In what I think is a rather unusual twist to the performance and peer review process, the Canadian website Coworkers.com is a community of users that seems to focus on the peer review. There are several problems with this that I can see. First of all, these are unsolicited reviews for the most part. While…
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Social Media Best Practice #3
As part of the other systematic’s (Systematic Viewpoints” series on social media: Best practice #3: Collaboration requires a balance of freedom and governance to thrive. ((Systematic Viewpoints, September 11, 2007. “Social media in the enterprise – best practice #3.”)) In the post, he uses a Sharepoint example where “employees had been given broad access to…
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Social Media Best Practice #2
Best Practice #2: Show direct business value by aligning social computing to real-world work. ((Systematic Viewpoints, September 11, 2007. “Social media in the enterprise – best practice #2.”)) The other systematic (TOS) continues by saying: If you’re thinking of deploying a form of social media, it must have a defined value proposition, be aligned to…
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SAP to Buy Business Objects
Perhaps this is in reaction to Oracles buying Hyperion. I always thought that SAP’s Business Warehouse product was pretty good. Then again, PeopleSoft EPM isn’t bad either, and Oracle felt the need to go out and continue their buying spree. SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer…
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Tactical Talent Management Becomes Strategic
Just a couple years ago, we always seemed to talk about outsourcing activities, processes and tasks that were administrative in nature. Part of the boom in Software as a Service (SaaS) was a re-visioning of outsourcing in a way that provided the scalability and cost efficiencies of traditional outsourcing to other services. (yes, broad generalizations…
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What’s the Difference Between Web 2.0 and SOA?
I almost want to say that these are two often confused technologies that have nothing to do with each other, but that’s going a bit too far. Earlier this week I was reading the Knowledge Infusion blog and they had this to say: Many in the Knowledge Infusion community continue to ask questions about the…
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Connecting Employee Performance and Enterprise Performance
Should Employee Performance Management be integrated and considered in Enterprise Performance Management? In an interesting twist, Thomas Otter and Jonathan Becher started a conversation here at exactly the same time that I was participating in the same conversation at Knowledge Infusion’s COE. Thomas states: One of my present irks is that both the finance community…
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Changing Management Culture to Improve Employee Creativity
More and more of the literature that is out there (at least what I’m reading) is about innovation. Business thinkers are clearly over the fact that R&D, engineering and production is moving offshore. They realize that those tasks can go away, so long as we keep our edge where it counts – thinking up new…