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Getting the Best Future for Your Company

01-Jun-2009 - Stephen Burr Early May saw SAP release the latest “Enhancement Package” (EhP4); these packages are SAP’s way of deploying new software functionality to customers without disruption. Although there are notable improvements in the core HC... read more »

Shared service centres: widening the skill gap

02-Mar-2009 - Damian Williams According to a report in Personnel Today, over 56% of HR executives and CEOs believe that shared service centres are killing off the skills of our HR professionals, through lack of exposure to key working practices. It’s a wor... read more »

Talent Management: Nothing to do with employee benefits?

15-Aug-2008 - Damian Williams Talent management is the current buzzword in HR. Talent management is the identification, recruitment, development and deployment of a company's most capable employees. It is a strategy used by employers to improve the retention ratio of thei... read more »

SELL, SELL, SELL

01-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman Nothing happens in this world until somebody sells something! Which makes “selling” the noblest profession of them all !! It may not officially be the oldest profession, but I doubt that even that could have existed without some sales effort. I a... read more »

SECOND SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT

30-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman Diaries are meant to be an aid to help us all manage our time allocations but in most cases are rarely used in a way that actually helps people to really achieve this. The problem is that most people use diaries mainly as a means of giving other... read more »

QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT FOR THE FUTURE

02-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman I believe that “People join companies, but leave managers”. People will join a company in the belief that the image and reputation that it projects is what they are looking for in an employer, and as such somewhere that they can learn, develop and... read more »

HR … POLITE TO POLICE TO PARTNER TO PLAYER

26-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Whenever I speak to a group of HR Professionals, I tend to start with the need for HR organisations to go through a process of change, and I call this transition “Polite to Police to Partner to Player”. HR people have always tended to be the polit... read more »

IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

16-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman When I was appointed to the SAP Global Extended Board in 1999, my bosses at the time (the Global CEO and the Board Chairman) approved my title as “CEO Asia Pacific, Board Member SAP-AG”. This was based on the fact that no-one outside of Germany r... read more »

THE 3 GREAT BUSINESS LIES

02-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman It is incredible that marketing organisations within companies spend such an incredible amount of time developing a company’s mission, vision and values statements and yet they all tend to come up with basically the same things over and over aga... read more »

HR … THE PESTO EFFECT

22-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman A number of people have asked me to write of my experiences running a company internal HR department after 40 years in business roles. When I was first asked whether I would do this, rather than retiring, I felt that it was a bit like asking Attil... read more »

FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE

02-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman I have lived and worked in Europe for the last 9 years after more than 30 years working in the IT Sector in NZ, Australia, Singapore and the USA, and have worked with, for, and also been responsible for, hundreds of different Managers at varying ... read more »

Getting the best out of TVN OrgChart

16-Dec-2009 - Luke Marson In a recent blog I talked about getting the best out of TVN OrgChart to maximise customer satisfaction and to better meet their requirements. To find out how I recommended this is to be done, read my blog on the SAP Developers Network. read more »

Making the most of HCM data visualisation

02-Nov-2009 - Luke Marson Recently I’ve seen a big increase in the use of SAP’s Talent Visualization by Nakisa (TVN) OrgChart tool by organisations to get their HCM data right. As you may know, HCM data is critical to a number of business and SAP processes and ... read more »