by Jim Holincheck | December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
As I reflect on SAP’s agreement to acquire SuccessFactors, it takes me back to 2004. At the end of that year, after a long, bitter takeover battle, Oracle finally acquired PeopleSoft. Everything felt different. It was the end of an era. No longer did we have the JBLOPS (J.D, Edwards, Baan, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | November 8, 2011 | Comments Off
Where Was HR? The Penn State Edition Well said. tags: HCM Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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by Jim Holincheck | March 21, 2011 | 6 Comments
It has been quite a while since I have written a blog post. I will not bore you with "Life, the Universe, and Everything" that has been going on except to say that that quote is a foreshadow for the rest of this post. Most people know Douglas Adams as the author of the "Hitchhiker’s [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
HRM Software/Services Q1 Vendor Briefings — Strategy Matters « In Full Bloom Very savvy point of view on key things driving development of the HCM software market. tags: HCM Profitability Through Human Capital: Why HR Metrics Don’t Work The Gartner model for Workforce Analytics has a similar point of view as the “Hitting the Wall” [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
SandHill.com | Opinion : Value Pricing and Avoiding the Commodity Metric Trap Good article about for both SaaS vendors and customers looking to buy from SaaS vendors. tags: SaaS UPS Says It’s Now Delivering Hires, Not Just Fans and Followers – ERE.net Good case study on social recruiting metrics. tags: E-Recruitment socialnetworking Posted from Diigo. [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | December 15, 2010 | Comments Off
Startups – Marc Benioff: salesman extraordinaire Interesting read from 11 years ago about Salesforce.com vs. Siebel. tags: SaaS SaaS Economics – Part 1: The SaaS Cash Flow Trough | For Entrepreneurs Great article on the economics driving a SaaS business model. tags: SaaS Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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by Jim Holincheck | October 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
This week I attended the Peopleclick Authoria (PCA) Global Customer Conference (#GCC2010). I gave a couple of presentations at the conference on Talent Management market trends which is always fun. In contrast to my usual practice of attending customer case study sessions, I used a different strategy at this conference. I attended the “big tent” [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | September 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
There is a lot that happens each year at OpenWorld (#oow10). This year was quite notable from a HCM perspective because Oracle has finally committed to more specific delivery of Fusion applications. Oracle is working with early customers today and plans to have a controlled release (Oracle called it a GA release, but they are [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | September 20, 2010 | Comments Off
This is going to be a quick one as I am at Oracle OpenWorld and will need to get busy on that Trip Report soon. Certainly, the Learn.com acquisition was a big deal. I am working on a note discussing that acquisition as well as another note on the broader subject of M&A in the [...]
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by Jim Holincheck | August 28, 2010 | Comments Off
The Boss as Human Shield: New HBR Article Based on Good Boss, Bad Boss – Bob Sutton Good advice that I have found this to be true both managing consultants and analysts. tags: HCM talentmanagement Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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