News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers [...]
Oracle Acquires Taleo (Resistance is Futile)
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, I am not sure, but this is what happens when I don’t have time to write:-) If you are in Enterprise Software, you know what’s coming at you … resistance is futile. Now, for the real news on Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo, I refer [...]
The White House Talks Supply Chain: When Supply Risk Becomes a National Security Issue (Part 2)
In the first post in this series we covered and quoted many of the announcement factoids and underpinnings of the new National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security announced by the White House last week. We’ll continue to share so…
The Changed Definition of Vertical Technology
It was 1997. Gartner used to publish an annual poster which rated systems integrators/outsourcers by industries, by geographies, by technologies, and other competencies. It was a large wall hanger with many rows and columns, and many analysts, including me, had a say in some of the cells. One of the firms being rated submitted the [...]
Obama’s in-sourcing initiative: does it have the teeth to rescue the US IT industry?
As per usual, election year brings up the age-old argument about how to combat the “threat” of outsourcing. Isn’t now the time, in an election year, to stop the rhetoric and actually make commitments to growing local industries that have a direct impact?
The White House Talks Supply Chain: When Supply Risk Becomes a National Security Issue (Part 1)
For someone who has been researching and covering supply chain risk for a decade, it’s extremely refreshing to see what once were esoteric topics become mainstream, albeit due to avoidable — and unavoidable, in certain cases — traged…
Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes
Larry Seidel’s Other Interests My first post in this series was about what we can do to prepare for and sustain a long, productive and satisfying career. In this post, I’d like to give credit — and there’s a lot to give — to the people who helped shaped the professional I became. We should all be [...]
Hitching Your Boat to Customer Advocacy
I recently wrote about how McDonald’s and RIM had flamed out with their #hashtag campaigns on Twitter. Not pretty. However, I admit that I am somewhat conflicted about this because I completely subscribe to the notion that customer advocacy will drive successful companies to sustainable competitive leadership. Gone are the days when a company could [...]
Is Simplicity a Winning Strategy?
If such an award existed, Ron Johnson would be a Hall of Famer retailer. He was instrumental in making Apple Stores what they are today – the biggest sales per sq ft of retail space and a wake up call for the rest of the retail industry. Now he is the CEO at J C [...]
Are you achieving sourcing success with your finance? ACCA and HfS have teamed up to find out…
HfS Research has partnered with ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) to conduct the largest-ever global study of finance professionals to understand adoption trends, experiences and dynamics of shared services and outsourcing for the finance function.
