Thomas Otter

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Entries Tagged as 'cost optimization'

Modernizing core HR

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

While at the Benz museum, (see earlier posts) I snapped these pictures of the time entry system that the factory used.

 

As organizations grapple with a very different economy from this time last year, we are seeing a growing interest in addressing cost issues associated with core HR processes such as time recording, leave [...]

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Tags: HCM · HR · cost optimization

All screens bright and beautiful

January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

There has been some discussion here in Gartner about monitors and productivity for developers and knowledge workers.
Many of us work from home, and several have multi-monitor set ups. This is Mark’s set up.

Here is mine. I’m feeling a tad inadequate. A mere 22"wide screen monitor and my T61 notebook screen.

Depending on [...]

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Tags: UI · cost optimization · software industry · usability

measuring twice, cutting once.

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments

 
(photo from English Cut, one day, I hope to have a suit made there)
There is a lot of excellent cost optimization research going on here at Gartner, and as you would expect it was a key theme at the recent symposium.
My small contribution to the research collection is a note called Workforce Analytics Skills Are [...]

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Tags: cost optimization · software industry · visualization