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- Sales Compensation & Performance Management 2009 Survey Results and Analysis
- Based on 1000+ companies, the CSO Insights' 2009 Sales Compensation & Performance Management Report provides summaries of what strategies and tactics companies are employing. The findings offer insights and the report offers suggestions on key elements that should be considered as you plan, deploy and manage compensation plans and sales...
- Tags: Compensation, Sales Compensation, Varicent, Analysis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-10-13
- Upgrading to Windows 7 - Your questions answered!
- OK Adrian. Now, do the same thing for Ubuntu 9.10.Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 and matrix is side-by-side with W7.One data pointI took my Dell Latitude E6500 (Core 2 Duo P9500, 4GB) from Vista x86 to Win7 x64 (clean install required for 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade). I downloaded the 64-bit Vista...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Notebooks, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Migration Wizard, Microsoft Windows 7, fess up, Upgrading, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Open source is sold and FOSS is not
- I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, F/OSS, GPL, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Microsoft exec: 'When Windows is executing well, Microsoft is in good shape'
- upgrade pathdo you really think that people will rush to their next best buy to make a clean install on their old xp hardware? do you think corporations will want the hassle of clean installs on their xp hardware? never going to happen. windows 7 is a non event in...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., hardware, clean install, new hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- A modest proposal to fix the primary care shortage
- Talk is cheapI am in the medical field. I have been hearing for many MANY years now how we will solve the primary care shortage by paying primary care docs more and specialists less, then a big fight ensues. And IMHO the stupidity of that proposal misses the obvious: If...
- Tags: Benefits, primary care shortage, care shortage
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Who might get health reform passed?
- They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks
- I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...
- Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- GOP to go with McCain plan
- GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- HIPAA remains the EMR deterrent
- HIPAA remains the EMR deterrentFirst off.. its no longer called EMR.. its called EHR.. and oh the holesHIPAA is not the reason EHR is not being adopted quicker. Its money. Many of the software EHRs already have built in encryption for communication(no external devices needed!) and secondly HIPAA,...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Insurance, HIPAA, goverment, eHR, EMR
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- From 'Payola' to 'Pay for Say': Will Metrics Aid Honesty or Abet Dishonesty in Online Conversation?
- Every medium or twist on a medium seems to spawn its own version of hiding the agenda. For decades, radio has had â€" and apparently continues to have â€" its payola problems. One way or another, music jockeys get paid off to play particular songs. ...
- Tags: Conversation, Payment, Social Media, Advertiser, Marketers, Conversation Phrase, BlogHer, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Why health reform remains possible
- Why health reform remains possibleFrank LuntzThis speaks volumeshttp://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009051907/secret-right-wing-strategy-health-care-exposedPDF - http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdfWhat socialized healthcare.....Nothing is free, and when you get through socializing the entire US economic system into a Government ran quagmire with Trillions of dollars of debt with an endless array of red tape.Wake me up when this nightmare is over...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Pre-Bartz Yahoo: Bonuses and more for execs
- Turning around a company like Yahoo doesn't come cheap. And keeping executive talent in place - or not - while other senior executives jump ship can also add up. Even though co-founder, Chief Yahoo and former CEO Jerry Yang collected only a $1 salary in 2008, the...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bonus, Salary, Sue Decker, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Microsoft sends mixed patent message
- Microsoft sends mixed patent messagesame oldplain unsubstantiated M$ FUD.RE: Microsoft sends mixed patent messageThe message seems pretty clear. Its basically telling linux to watch its back and that their patents are not just a free for all. Microsoft has spent a lot for R&D on patents and its...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UK Government, patent, Microsoft Corp., patent message, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., software patent, software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?
- Will HIMSS vendors oppose their best customers?It's about money - not your healthThe health insurance industry had the highest median CEO compensation. Over $10 million and that's just the median. Half of those guys made more than that.One would be foolish to believe that those rather happy CEOs...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Healthcare reform, Insurance, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warming
- Reknowned scientist takes unpopular stance on global warmingThe best summary yet?Enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories??This is the best summary of the state of Global Warming theory I have yet read, and fits exactly what many of us have been...
- Tags: global warming, unpopular stance
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Upgrade talent for the economy to come
- Bad pathologies to avoid in new employees One of the best pieces of advice that came from last week’s IDC Directions conference was an almost throwaway comment from one of the IDC executive speakers: Start planning for the recovery. That’s actually...
- Tags: Talent, Firm, Self-starters, Malcolm Gladwell, Stars, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough
- Olympus: 12 megapixels is enoughI agreeWhat is the point of 12 Megapixels if your color sucks. That and the fact that I own a 12 Megapixel camera, and the best thing it does is consume my laptop space. While I don't take very many pictures, I am...
- Tags: Olympus Corp., camera, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Nortel to cut 3,200 more employees
- Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...
- Tags: Compensation, Employee, Performance, Nortel Networks Corp., Equity, Benefits, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Sanity check: State of the IT profession 2009
- In light of the release of our 2009 IT Skills and Salary Report, I have assembled a set of observations about the current state of the IT profession. Here are the areas of strength and the most significant challenges. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" We the people...
- Tags: Information Technology, Survey, IT Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
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