How not to work with HRTECH start-ups. The enterprise edition.
https://twitter.com/econinbricks/status/1209871370961772544?s=20 Thanks to @econinbrinks. An excellent source of wisdom. When I was at Gartner I helped enterprises grapple with enterprise vendor contracts. I know several specialist advisors that do an excellent job of...
M&A in HR TECH: Theory meets practice. iCIMS acquires EASYRECRUE.
M&A book M&A Strategy at Oxford: Last month I attended the first module of the Oxford Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation. I attended online because of Covid, but hopefully I can go and lurk the hallowed halls of the university for the next...
Zooming in on your front-end and our old friend the API: Some Advice for HRTECH product managers, designers and their long suffering users.
I have pontificated on APIs and Frontend strategy more than once, so I expect there will be some repetition today. Never mind. Ross Mayfield, one of the early pioneers of social software in the enterprise, is now in the gainful employ of Zoom, as the product lead for...
A test for your time and attendance or HR Systems vendor
It's astoundingTime is fleetingMadness takes its tollBut listen closelyNot for very much longerI've got to keep control These are challenging times for HR departments. Governments are responding to the pandemic in various ways, and as many countries are now dealing...
HR tech applications vendors. Build HR tech applications.
I admit, I'm spending too much time doom-scrolling in twitter, but between the wailing and gnashing of teeth, I found a gem. https://twitter.com/nrmehta/status/1321507556359987200?s=20 Nick is the CEO at Gainsight (check out their product, especially if you are...
User interfaces are not just look and feel. Words matter.
I have seen more HR software user interfaces (UI) than almost anyone on this planet. I reckon there are maybe about 25 people that have watched more demos that I have. I'm not sure that this is what I want to remembered for, but anyway. If there was name the year and...
Accessibility and the courts. HRTECH held to account?
T-shirt. Ironing is optional, accessibility isn't. HRTECH and inaccessibility Over the course of the last decade, I spent a lot of time researching accessibility and in-accessibility as part of my PhD. My basic findings were that most software vendors and the...
Melting HR bureaucracy
The tastiest employment contract I‘ve ever seen. German version here. We talk a lot about making HR processes more engaging and improving the employee experience. Software for employee engagement has grown, in the space of a few years, to more than a billion euro...
Happy 2nd anniversary.
After almost 20 years at SAP, Thomas and I decided that I become the first employee at Otter Advisory in January this year. As Thomas was my boss and mentor a couple years ago I knew exactly what to expect - LEARNING AND GROWING - I LOVE IT! Invoicing, taxes,...
The difficult second album. Advice for HRTECH vendors.
Warning: long, rambling metaphor. Readers of my blog and twitter feed will have seen that I have an interest in music. One of my favourite albums is the first Stone Roses Album, The Stone Roses. I play this record a lot. Here is the song, Waterfall, from the album....