Future of SAP and SuccessFactors Consulting 2016 – SuccessFactors Talent Management (Part 3)
It has been another very eventful year in HR Technology and last year at this time, a group of friends and I collaborated to write The Future of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Consulting – 2015. This year we split the report into a three-part series with the Future of SAP HCM On Premise Consulting – […]
Future of SAP and SuccessFactors Consulting 2016 – SuccessFactors Core HR, Payroll, Analytics, Platform, Concur (Part 2)
It has been another very eventful year in HR Technology and last year at this time, a group of friends and I collaborated to write The Future of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Consulting – 2015. This year we split the report into a three-part series with the recently released Future of SAP HCM On Premise […]
Future of SAP and SuccessFactors Consulting 2016 – SAP HCM (Part 1)
It has been another very eventful year in HR Technology and last year at this time, a group of friends and I collaborated to write The Future of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Consulting – 2015. This year we will be splitting the report into a three-part series with Future of SuccessFactors Consulting – Core HR, […]
SAP and SuccessFactors HR2016 and a Special Discount Code
The 15th Annual SAP HR2016 Conference will be held in Las Vegas from February 23 – 26 at the Las Vegas Wynn hotel. It is regularly considered, along with SuccessConnect, one of premier events for SAP and SuccessFactors professionals, consultants and customers. There are more than 130 sessions, 50 exhibitors, 20 case studies, 32 hours […]
How self-driving vehicles can fix the San Francisco housing crunch
In the San Francisco Bay Area, home prices have seen significant appreciation the last few years: Source: Paragon Real Estate Group In the Bay Area, skyrocketing home prices and rents have driven people out of the area. They look for homes in further-out suburbs and exurbs, extending their commutes to work. And the Bay Area leads the nation […]
How Do You Know if You Have the Right CEO to Run Your Business Until the End?
Many people don’t know that I actually became Chairman of my first company and relinquishing the CEO role before the company was sold. It’s a topic I’m well versed in personally and I understand the difficult emotional decision of whether to hand the reigns to someone else of the baby you’ve struggled so hard to […]
Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs
You’ve never been a CEO but might like to be one some day. But how? Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one? I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “personal branding.” If you don’t create the […]
Why Recruiting Isn’t Over When an Employee Accepts Your Offer
Recruiting. It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. It consumes time and energy and the payoff doesn’t come […]
Level Up
One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. I also see companies as […]
My Thoughts on SuccessFactors Employee Central
I recently had the opportunity to spend a week in Las Vegas attending the HR Technology Conference and SuccessFactors SuccessConnect and during that time had lots of in-depth discussions with analysts, customers and fellow consultants. One of the SAP/SuccessFactors products I got asked the most about was Employee Central, which is the SuccessFactors Core HRMS offering. Here are […]
Truth about the SAP HCM Customer Connection Program
In February of 2012, SAP announced that it was replacing the defunct Development Request (DRQ) process, which had long been ineffective, with a new ASUG support Customer Connection Program. The programs goal was to allow customers to submit smaller improvements, and assuming they got the minimum support of five other customers, that SAP would review, […]
The Future of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Consulting – 2013
It has been an extremely eventful year for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors since a group of us collaborated to write The Future of SAP HCM Consulting and SuccessFactors and a lot of people continue to reach out to me trying to understand what lies ahead in the overall consulting market. My thoughts are we are in the early […]
SAP and SuccessFactors – Four Key topics I Want to Hear About at HR2013
The 10th Annual SAP HR2013 Conference will be in Las Vegas from February 26 to March 1 and it is regularly considered the premierevent for SAP HCM Professionals, consultants and customers. There are more than 110 in-depth educational sessions, ask the expert workshops, customer workshops, networking events and live demos by SAP and SuccessFactors. I will be attending […]
New SAP and SuccessFactors Cloud Payroll Offering
SAP and SuccessFactors quietly launched the beta release of cloud payroll for USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, and India for customers using Employee Central last week. I had the opportunity to get a briefing from SAP and SuccessFactors a few weeks ago and thought I would share my thoughts. Overview The […]
The Future of (SAP) HCM Consulting and SuccessFactors – 2012
SAP recently released their first public product roadmap on their acquisition of SuccessFactors and I provided my initial thoughts in an article titled SAP and SuccessFactors Roadmap Analysis. A lot of people have reached out to me worried about the future and trying to understand what this means to the overall SAP consulting market. In an attempt […]
