Jim Holincheck

Confessions of a performance review convert: no pain, no gain?…no longer! « TalentedApps
Another good reminder that technology can be enabler of good talent management, but how people use it makes all of the difference.
tags: EPM, talentmanagement

systematicHR – Human Resources Strategy and Technology » Top Chef on Management Styles
I am a big Top Chef fan too. [...]

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Countercyclical Hiring: The Greatest Recruiting Opportunity in the Last 25 Years : ERE.net
Some call it “poaching”, but whatever term you might apply to it, Dr. Sullivan points out that it is a good time to lure top talent into your firm. Organizations that have already proactively built talent pools for critical roles that include [...]

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SAP Enterprise Service and Google Wave – SAP Network Blogs
A very interesting investigation into using the upcoming Google Wave solution with SAP.
tags: SAP

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker
This is a companion link to the other healthcare link I posted today. There are examples of providing high quality care at lower relative cost. The challenge with healthcare is systemic. The incentives are for doctors to provide more care [...]

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Culture
Cool presentation on the performance-driven culture at Netflix.
tags: EPM

What is your Pattern-based Strategy?
Nice post by Andrew about some important Gartner research on business strategy and technology.
tags: no_tag

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Delivering Sourcing Optimization « The Applicator
Nice post on the challenges of optimization software. I see this issue too workforce scheduling optimization. It is not typically about the best algorithm. It is about the best algorithm applied to the scheduling problem you are trying to solve (as Davide puts it, you need set [...]

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I was on a call with a client today who is renegotiating a contract with a vendor.  I am not going to name names because it does not make any difference.  It made me angry because the client was acting like a victim.  "What if the vendor comes to audit our software usage and finds [...]

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