by Thomas | Oct 10, 2019 | conference
Since I started Otter Advisory late last year, I’ve worked with a variety of HRTECH vendors, and I have been transparent about whom I’m working with. I outline things here. The main exceptions have been with M&A work, and with one start-up that was in...
by Thomas | Oct 10, 2019 | conference, GDPR
HRTECH has a curious relationship with law and regulations. On the one hand, it owes its genesis to payroll. Vendors have built sophisticated methods to gather and code these legislative requirements. They work closely with governments to understand what laws are...
by Thomas | Sep 25, 2019 | Back to the Future series, conference, Start up
There is an obvious attraction to buying a broad suite solution. The benefits are oft repeated, and range from end to end user experience, global consistent processes, broader insights through suite wide analytics, vendor viability, lower integration costs, to more...
by Thomas | Jan 23, 2019 | conference, Start up
Over the years I have been to many software conference and events. And just before it was übercool to throw out things that don’t provide joy, I disposed of a massive pile of conference badges from Gartner symposiums, Sapphires, Risings and Openworlds and...
by Thomas | Oct 13, 2018 | conference
It must have been nearly 8 years ago when I first talked to Marc Coleman and Peter Russell. They had this weird idea of putting on a conference in Europe focussing on HR Technology. They asked me for some advice, and if I’d speak at their first event. I agreed...
