Enterprise Mobility and the Talent War
Apple’s leader of iOS development Scott Forstall, in on record saying its App Store, has “created the best economy in software in the history of the planet” Before you call him immodest, let’s put things in perspective. When IBM introduced the AS/400 in 1988 its partners “announced more than 1,000 software packages in the biggest [...]
Innovative recruitment practice
(Cross posted on my Gartner blog). Atlassian is an Australian software vendor, active in the social software and developer tools space. I’ll leave the product evaluations to folks like Nikos Drakos, Tom Austin and Jeff Mann but I would like to call them out for something else. I have been watching the company from afar [...]
Peopleclick Authoria – A Perfect Merger or Act of Desperation?
Today, Authoria announce the merger with Peopleclick to create Peopleclick Authoria. Bedford Funding, the private equity firm that owns Authoria is spending $100 million to acquire and merge the companies. I’d love to say I had my crystal ball out when we recorded the Bill Kutik Radio Show a few weeks ago and predicted [...]
What To Do With The Gartner Magic Quadrant?
As you may have noticed, last week Gartner published its annual E-Recruitment Magic Quadrant. With every Magic Quadrant comes the press releases from vendors telling people how great Gartner thinks they are, other vendor quietly complaining about their precise positioning in the graph, and the myriads of “influencers” challenging Gartner’s vendor rankings due to their [...]
JobVite’s new thing: sourcing passive candidates
I recently wrote about JobVite and how it permits employers to tap into the social networks of its employees to find quality recruits. JobVite permits employers to create eVites that employees, colleagues, etc. can pass around via email or publish to social networks like Facebook. It must be working as one of my old clients [...]
