by Thomas | Oct 14, 2020 | Back to the Future series, HR, HRTECH, LAW, product management.
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...
by Michaela | Oct 13, 2020 | Start up
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!...
by Thomas | Oct 12, 2020 | HRTECH, Launch, marketing, product management., Start up
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....
by Thomas | Sep 19, 2020 | devops, HRTECH
I solved a major domestic technical debt project last weekend. In my basement I had a box of cables, chargers, adapters etc. There was also a monitor that I hadn’t used for a decade, and various other bits and pieces, including a shoe box of old batteries, and a...
by Thomas | Sep 2, 2020 | conference, HRTECH, marketing, product management.
This post originally appeared in German on the Haufe Personal website. I write a regular column there, covering #HRTECH. I figured I’d post the english draft here. Thanks Michaela for the German translation. You may know the back story about “Made in...
by Thomas | Aug 26, 2020 | GDPR, HRTECH, product management., Start up
This morning on twitter I read a rather amusing story. Almost every article on Scots Wikipedia is written by one American teenager, who does not speak Scots and is just writing English in an "accent". If you have a multilingual language model, this fakery...
by Thomas | Jul 7, 2020 | HRTECH
One of the first engagements I had after launching Otter Advisory was with Scottish Equity Partners. I helped them with due diligence for an investment in an Irish global payroll provider, Immedis.As is the job in due diligence, I looked under the covers and...
by Thomas | Jun 17, 2020 | devops, HRTECH, product management., Uncategorized
I as I have said before, if were to have my time over as a product leader again, I would have been more assertive and downright belligerent about making sure that APIs were absolutely central to product design, and that no code would ship without a properly...
by Thomas | Jun 12, 2020 | devops, product management.
A chat with James Governor about HIPPOs caused me to search fruitlessly for a post that I knew I had written, and then find it lurking in my draft folder. Several tech companies, for instance, IBM, Dimension Data (now NTT) and SAP partner Epi-use are all using...
by Thomas | Jun 11, 2020 | Accessibility, HRTECH
The ability of AI technology and automation to discriminate at scale is well documented. Just this week we have seen both IBM and Amazon back-peddle on face recognition technologies. The dismal record of corporate recruitment sites for accessibility has been my hobby...
