At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?
I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past. Oracle is fortifying its borders, opening new fronts in its market battles, and slowly closing itself off from some [...]
Is SHRM Listening?
SHRM — Are You Listening? Forty years on, and we’re still talking about organizational readiness for strategic HRM (of which talent management is a large piece). Boring! The time for action is long past. SHRM, are you listening? Why the hell isn’t your critical HRM data (e.g. positions, jobs, KSAOCs, worker, organizational structures, etc.) in [...]
Oracle and ATG Redux
Image via Wikipedia One of the more interesting developments of the last week has been the announced acquisition of ATG (Art Technology Group) by Oracle Corporation. ATG is one of the leading suppliers of ecommerce solutions and Oracle liked their stuff well enough to plunk down a cool billion bucks for the logo. I thought [...]
Forrester Sourcing Forum Dispatch: Learning From Cisco’s Global Procurement Transformation (Part 1)
I spent the better part of yesterday at Forrester’s Sourcing and Vendor Management Forum in Chicago, which featured a number of excellent presentations by practitioners and Forrester analysts on both IT/services procurement and th…
