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Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — What Impresses Me

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — What Impresses Me

By Naomi Bloom on April 8, 2013

Show Me The Money! [After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos | Leave a response

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Capability Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Capability Matters

By Naomi Bloom on April 3, 2013

[After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my current thinking about this [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos | Leave a response

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Strategy Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate HRM Vendors/Products — Strategy Matters

By Naomi Bloom on April 1, 2013

Happy Pesach!  And for those of you with a few minutes to spare, this video from http://www.maccabeats.com will get you into the right mood.  For those of you who celebrate Pesach, and for those of you who don’t, my personal prayer is that every form of slavery, from physical to economic to psychological, will be wiped out [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos | Leave a response

Reprise — How I Evaluate Vendors/Products — Ambition Matters

Reprise — How I Evaluate Vendors/Products — Ambition Matters

By Naomi Bloom on March 18, 2013

Show Me The Money! [After many vendor briefings in Q1 2011, I published a series of blog posts summarizing my reactions to those briefings which really captured, as of then, how I evaluated vendors and their products/services.  Rereading those posts after a two year hiatus, I was struck not only by their relevance to my current [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged best practices, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRM/IT Intersection, HRO, SaaS, Vendor Briefings/Demos | 1 Response

It’s Time To Consolidate Social Business Platforms

It’s Time To Consolidate Social Business Platforms

By R "Ray" Wang on March 6, 2013

Greater Adoption In Social Business Signifies A Move To Consolidate Platforms Constellation’s buy-side clients tend to fit in the market leader or fast follower categories when it comes to organizational personas of disruptive technology adoption.  Since 2010, respondents have progressed through the DEEPR framework and the latest results from 2012 indicate that most survey respondents [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #adobesummit, #ibmsocial, #ngcollective, #sabasummit, adoption, Apps Strategy, best practices, Business Outcomes, CEO, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud options, CMO, CoIT, collaboration, collaboration insights, collaboration software, customer engagement, Customer Experience, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise class, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, innovation, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, socbiz, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, sxsw, Tuesday's Tip | 1 Response

Don’t Make Your Next Performance Review Suck

Don’t Make Your Next Performance Review Suck

By Jason Corsello on December 13, 2012

Corporate America appears to be doing a very poor job when it comes to aligning goals, providing performance feedback, and actually investing in the development of employees.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged best practices, Cornerstone OnDemand, Employment, HR, Performance appraisal, performance management, talent management | Leave a response

Monday’s Musings: Understand The Four Personas Of Disruptive Tech Adoption

Monday’s Musings: Understand The Four Personas Of Disruptive Tech Adoption

By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2012

Pace of Innovation Exceeds Ability To Consume Rapid innovation, flexible deployment options, and easy consumption models create favorable conditions for the proliferation of disruptive technology.  In fact, convergence in the five pillars of enterprise disruption (i.e. social, mobile, cloud, big data, and unified communications), has led to new innovations and opportunities to apply disruptive technologies [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #techoptimization, adoption, analytics, Apps Strategy, best practices, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, Business Outcomes, business strategy, change, Change Management, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Digital Divide, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, Digital Divide, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future, future of business, future of work, innovation, innovation insights, innovation labs, management strategy, Monday's Musings, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, organizational strategy, outcome focused, People to People, public cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, socbiz, social business, Social Enterprise, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, technology adoption, technology budgets, Technology Optimization, User Experience, ux | 2 Responses

Interrogatory Configuration And Workday’s Tech Summit 2012

Interrogatory Configuration And Workday’s Tech Summit 2012

By Naomi Bloom on November 20, 2012

You may have thought that everything that could be said about Workday’s Tech Summit 2012 had already been posted, but you were wrong. There was another announcement made there quietly, as befits the first steps on what is going to be a multi-release, probably multi-year product journey, that has not yet been covered.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #wday, best practices, disruptive technologies, enterprise software, HRM Software, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, software as a service, workday | Leave a response

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

By Naomi Bloom on August 20, 2012

[I wrote this post in June, 2010, just when Al and Tipper Gore had announced their separation mid-2010, at a time when true SaaS InFullBloom was in its infancy.  I was spending a ton of time with a wide range of vendors, some licensees of my "Starter Kit," working hard on the next generation of [...]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, Business Outcomes, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM Software, Ruminations, Strategic HRMDS Planning | Leave a response

Event Report: CRM Evolution 2012 #CRME12

Event Report: CRM Evolution 2012 #CRME12

By R "Ray" Wang on August 14, 2012

CRM Continues To Evolve In A World Of Engagement The CRM industry’s major non-vendor customer focused event kicked off at the Marriott Marquis in New York from August 13th to 15th.  Conversations with prospects and practitioners at the event highlighted a few emerging trends: Shift from transaction to engagement. CRM traditionally focused mostly on the [...]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, best of breed, best practices, brand, Business Analytics, Business process management, CCM, cdi, CEP, Change Management, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, CMO, complex event processing, Constellation Research, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Strategy, CRM, CRM Magazine, customer data integration, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Customer Hubs, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, customer service; -business, Customer Support, CXP, Engage, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, event report, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider | 1 Response

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