by Thomas Otter | August 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
In this interview on the O’Reilly blog Scott Berkun nails it. How do you define "innovation"? Scott Berkun: I strongly recommend people use this word as little as possible. It’s mostly a distraction. Many great ideas and breakthroughs were achieved without people worrying if they were innovative enough or not. They simply chose to try [...]
Category: books innovation measurement software industry Tags: Berkun, books, innovation
by Thomas Otter | July 7, 2010 | 6 Comments
I read many HR blogs, and one of my favourites is the Evil HR lady. She blogs a much of her HR stuff on the BNET site. I have been speaking to a lot of HR audiences lately, and sometimes they get a little uncomfortable when I bring up the analytics topic. Most HR departments [...]
Category: Applications HR measurement software design Tags: analytics, HR
by Thomas Otter | September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Photo via the cc of sgt. PepperedJane. thanks! To score well at Scrabble, you need to look at the score, not the just word. Long words across the board might look good, but unless they land on double or triples, you simply waste letters and open up the board for the others to score. Literary [...]
Category: HR measurement Tags: HR;Software;Patterns;
by Thomas Otter | June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Readers of this blog and my Gartner research will know that I am a big fan of analytics. Not the really the tools, but the skills to take numbers and turn them into something useful. I’m not a statistician, but I know several. I’m even friends with a couple (meaning, in this instance, more than [...]
Category: measurement software industry visualization Tags: analytics, data, Stats
by Thomas Otter | February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments
Though your balance-sheet’s a model of what balance-sheet should be, Typed and ruled with great precision in a type that all can see; Though the grouping of the assets is commendable and clear, And the details which are given more than usually appear; Though investments have been valued at the sale price of the day, [...]
Category: HCM HR finance measurement Tags: analytics, Bowman, finance, HR, measurement
