In the new world of work, businesses need solutions to help them create a more transparent, better connected and highly collaborative way of working. If they want to become more agile and competitive – and more responsive to changing market demands – evolving and becoming a transformative organization is a must. Today, we’ve unveiled a [...]
With our People 2012 Global Summit a mere 48 hours away, we’re putting the final details in place! Amidst the preparation bustle, I wanted to take minute to share with you some of the great content the conference has to offer this year. It’s a critical time to visit the issues we’re discussing in Miami—including [...]
As you’re probably aware, today Oracle announced its intent to buy cloud-based talent management vendor Taleo for $1.9 billion in cash, an 18 percent premium over Taleo’s closing price on Wednesday. We view the acquisition as very positive for Saba and for our customers. It validates that Talent Management is a strategic business application area, [...]
As you’re probably aware, over the weekend, SAP announced its intent to buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion in cash, which represents a 10.5x multiple of consensus 2011 revenue and an 8.4x 2012 revenue. The acquisition is particularly interesting given that it happened on the heels of Oracle’s $1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow Technologies. Both of [...]
Last week, Saba was at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, California, contributing to the discussions and activities behind building social businesses. Throughout the course of the show we saw all kinds of exciting and innovative tools and heard some quite visionary theories for what a true social business looks like, but if there [...]
A guest post by Gary Hamel Over the last decade, the Internet has had a profound impact on business. It has spawned a slew of new business models and has helped make operating models vastly more efficient. By contrast, the Web’s impact on management models has been relatively modest. While blogs, Wikis, and online communities [...]
In my earlier blog post, I talked about the significant role employee engagement plays in business performance and how research from Gallup shows that “companies with world class employee engagement have 4x higher earnings per share growth than their peers”. The same Gallup study also showed that “the US workforce loses $300B in productivity from disengaged employees”. As [...]
In my earlier blog post, I talked about the research that shows that “companies typically realize only about 60% of their strategy’s potential value”. This strategy performance gap results from ineffective and inadequate execution. As such, people are the key to unlocking value. By enabling a performance driven culture, organizations can address “defects and breakdowns in planning [...]
We all know that having a sound strategy is essential for business success. But, is clearly defining strategy enough to guarantee success for an entire organization, or does it require more? According to a study published in Harvard Business Review by Michael Mankins and Richard Steele, there is a wide gap between the projected results [...]
As long as an employer’s goal is to motivate employees and deliver the best results for the business, engaging all sections of the employee-base remains important. Last week’s Harvard Business Review (HBR) included an article by Professor Thomas J. DeLong entitled, “Stop Ignoring the Stalwart Worker” that details why organizations need to take notice of [...]
