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- BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1
- To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint’s BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...
- Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Decreasing the Impact of Brain Drain
- Inevitably, all organizations lose good people. Whether through layoffs, attrition, or retirement, they all must deal with the fact that even their most knowledgeable employees will someday leave. Staffing and human resources issues aside, one of the greatest challenges for companies facing possible layoffs, high rates of...
- Tags: Attrition, Layoff, Knowledge, APQC, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
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- 4 Questions That Will Help Decrease the Impact of Brain Drain
- Inevitably, all organizations lose good people. Whether through layoffs, attrition, or retirement, they all must deal with the fact that even their most knowledgeable employees will someday leave. Staffing and human resources issues aside, one of the greatest challenges for companies facing possible layoffs, high rates of...
- Tags: Attrition, Layoff, Knowledge, APQC, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
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- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Adecco Personalizes Web-Site Experience, Reduces Customer Attrition by Two-Thirds
- Connecting more than 700,000 qualified job-applicants with businesses around the world every day, Adecco is a global leader in staffing solutions. Adecco wanted to take better advantage of the Internet to provide people with the resources they need to realize their career goals. To drive business and increase efficiency, Adecco...
- Tags: Job, Adecco, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Open letter to all HR software vendors
- HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...
- Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light
- Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected. Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Wither the 'smartphone': Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smart
- Smartphones as a term is dying a quick death as all phones become smarter with Internet access, email and other capabilities. Meanwhile, the mobile market will be carved up based on whether devices are open, foster consumption or content creation, and utility and entertainment, according to Forrester Research. Simply put,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Device, Mobile, Smart Phone, Openness, Hardware Game, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Apple cuts 1,600 retail jobs
- Apple cuts 1,600 retail jobsApparently same SEC filing Apple ADDED R&D jobs. MacDailyNews notes that in the same SEC filing Apple added jobs in other depts. namely R&D. But of course Apple cutting jobs is a lot more exciting and makes all the headlines (must say that this article here...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, tech media, Jason, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., job
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Amazon: "Kindle exceeded our most optimistic expectations"; beats Q1 estimates
- updated: Amazon may be taking a lesson from Apple when it comes to earnings. Forecast low, come in high and keep everyone on Wall Street smiling. The company surpassed analysts' expectations for the first quarter, giving much of the credit to the re-launch of its e-book reader, the Kindle. ...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...
- Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'. Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...
- Tags: Hansen, HBS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Diversified Global Company Standardizes on Softscape
- ALFA is the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech aluminum engine heads and blocks; One of the world's largest producers of PTA, a petrochemical product; The Mexican leader in the production of processed meats and cheese; One of the most important telecommunications services companies in Mexico. ALFA was looking to establish...
- Tags: Softscape Inc., ALFA, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-04-07
- 6 Best Practices for Preventing Enterprise Data Loss
- Protecting a company from enterprise data loss is a strategic necessity. The risks, including potential monetary losses and damage to customer confidence and brand value, are far too great to ignore. But laying out a data security strategy and then implementing it is no easy feat. RSA, the leader in...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Best Practice, Security
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?
- Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?HealthcareBut, be careful about not acquiring excessive debt while getting the education. The more I think I about it, as long as there's money, accountancy.So, competitive advantage, driven by innovation and not price or service or proximity, has never been more...
- Tags: Strategy, Benefits, Personal finance, BLS, information technology, smart major, IS COMPUTER, IT Staff, recession, IT People, offshoring
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Will Cisco's data center push ignite IT price war?
- Cisco System's introduction of its Unified Computing Center system consisting of an 8-blade server, data storage and network system designed to run virtualization software will likely ignite a price war as IT vendors battle for smaller IT budgets. It is an aggressive move by Cisco to break into new...
- Tags: Blade Server, Data Center, Virtualization, Network, Blade, Information Technology, ZDNet, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco System, Data Centers, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us
- Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual. The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage. First, the financial figures. Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Customer, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Inject animal spirits back into SOA with small teams (no more than seven members)
- Are we finally returning to basics with SOA? Maybe with the recent "SOA is dead" shock therapy, along with the rise of Enterprise 2.0 and cloud computing thinking, there's recognition that service orienting needs to be fast and agile, injecting value into the business where it is needed the most...
- Tags: Team, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Team Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits
- It's been a stormy week in Northern California with torrential rain and power cables downed. People used to flicking a switch and getting electric power have been deprived of that utility. Coghead, a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications...
- Tags: Web, Intuit Inc., Customer, Coghead, Caspio, Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- The latest corporate dance: Layoffs by the numbers
- Not Quite a 12-Step Plan But Close I was speaking with a top executive of a major software firm this week regarding morale and the economy. She indicated that her firm’s strategy for layoffs follows a predictable pattern: - Step 1 â€" Do...
- Tags: Layoff, Top Executive, Worker, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- SAP plans to cut 3,000 jobs; 2009 seen as challenging
- SAP said Wednesday that it will cut 3,000 jobs as 2009 will "remain challenging" and offer "limited visibility." The layoffs are designed to save 300 million to 350 million euro starting in 2010, the company said in a statement. After the job cuts, SAP will have about...
- Tags: Revenue, Job, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
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