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 | August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
When it comes to HR technology, I tend to think of it largely as a horizontal play. Yes, there are some exceptions, like hospital or retail shift management, but most of the time HR seems like it is just HR. To borrow from Depeche Mode, People are People. Vendors who do well in one industry [...]
Category: HCM HR software industry Tags: HR tech, norway, shipping, vertical
by Thomas Otter | July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments
I spent some time this week looking at SAP’s results, so I thought I’d share some thoughts here too. Thanks to my colleague john Rizzuto for his input. SAP is showing modest acceleration off the bottom. The worst is seemingly behind it, but isn’t roaring back just yet. No reason not to be constructive, but [...]
Category: finance SAP software industry Tags: SAP
by Thomas Otter | May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
I recently bought a piano for my musical kids. Well, isn’t a piano in the traditional sense. It is a clavinova, to be precise, a Yamaha CLP 340. I’m interested in music, but I’m not much of a musician. My original plan was just to go online and buy something based on customer ratings and [...]
Category: software industry Tags: music, sales, software
by Thomas Otter | May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m looking forward to this event. Most of the events I go to are single vendor events, but this one is different. It is the event that brings most of the HR technology community together. Bill runs an excellent show. I’ll get to see Jason, Steve , Phil and Naomi, and I’ll be on a [...]
Category: HCM HR software design software industry Tags: HR, HRTech, Kutik
by Thomas Otter | March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m featuring two academics for this year’s Ada Lovelace day. It is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Firstly: Dr Sue Black. I’ve not met Sue, except on twitter, but I have admired her efforts to support Bletchley Park for some time now. She blogs about [...]
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Category: Events history software industry Tags: ada lovelace day, ald10, finding ada, Sue Black, Theano
by Thomas Otter | March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
by Thomas Otter | January 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
Andy Bitterer is something of a polymath. Analyst, photographer, musician, and now video reporter. Watch his performance here. The video made me laugh, but it does raise an interesting question for enterprise software companies. Many of the ERP and BI vendors talk about growing their user bases to reach the casual user. Judging by this [...]
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by Thomas Otter | January 8, 2010 | 5 Comments
I received a review copy of Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 just before Christmas, so I added it to my book pile as an extra Christmas present. Thank you Andrew and the publisher, HBS. In reviewing books, I have a simple test. Would I spend my own money on a copy? This book passes that test. [...]
Category: books software industry Tags: review; enterprise2.0;McAfee
by Thomas Otter | December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Just 30 minutes north west of Johannesburg there is a Safari Park. You can see giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, many birds, and lots of buck. Lions laze under the trees. You drive your car slowly by, counting off the animals you see. 5 hours north east of Johannesburg there is a Game Reserve. You can see [...]
Category: Africa project software industry Tags: References, software
