by Thomas Otter | September 29, 2008 | 4 Comments
John Le Carre is the most underrated living writer. His prose is excellent, characterizations profound, an immaculate attention to detail, gripping plots and better insight into human failings than anything I’ve ever read. He has created a fictional world that is so real. His descriptions of Germany and Germans played a small but influential role [...]
Category: HCM HR Social Software Tags: facebook, Furnham, HR, Mi5, mI6, recruiting
by Thomas Otter | September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
Some blogs I read for pure wit, others for tight prose, or up to date tech news, or because they are writing about issues and people I care about. Let me highlight two blogs because I think they ooze wisdom. They make me stop and think. A couple of extracts from Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s blog. His [...]
by Thomas Otter | September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
(photo taken by me, use with cc attribution with pleasure) I snapped this photo at the Ladenburg Altstadtfest this weekend. (Ladenburg is a small town near Heidelberg, Germany, where I live.) I will be spending the first part of next week at the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. I cover the HR technology [...]
by Thomas Otter | September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m in the middle of doing my first Magic Quadrant at the moment. It is a lot more work than I imagined, even if Jim is doing the lion’s share of it. By the end of the process we will have had in depth presentations from nearly 30 vendors, and interviewed many of their customers. [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: demos, legal
by Thomas Otter | September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
Welcome to my Gartner blog. I’m not new to blogging, having started an IT related blog called vendorprisey in March 2006. The reasons why I started that blog remain relevant today. Back then I was working for SAP, and there was a lot of discussion going on about SAP in the blogosphere that I wanted [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: blogging policy
