Getting the Best Future for Your Company01-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 gap02-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 » |
EVERY COMPANY NEEDS PEOPLE WHO CAN REGULARLY FAIL27-May-2013 - Les Hayman “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over an... read more » |
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PASSION18-Feb-2013 - Les Hayman Nietzsche (or Madam de Stael or someone called Angela Monet) said “Those who dance are always considered crazy by those who can’t hear the music”. I was recently contacted by an ex colleague who wanted to know if I still had the notes of a speech... read more » |
EIGHTH RULE OF MANAGEMENT21-Jan-2013 - Les Hayman The first rule of management is that successful management is actually more about how you manage yourself rather than being about how you manage others (see “First rule of management” posted June 25, 2012). The second rule of management is that t... read more » |
WOULD DISASTER HAVE STRUCK LEHMAN SISTERS ?12-Nov-2012 - Les Hayman I have been inspired by Jonas Ridderstrale, a speaker at the AtelierSAP conference in Berlin last week, to speculate on what would be the state of the world today if Lehman Brothers had not been founded in 1850 by Henry, Emanuel and Mayer, but ha... read more » |
FIFTH RULE OF MANAGEMENT05-Nov-2012 - Les Hayman The first rule of management is that successful management is actually more about how you manage yourself rather than being about how you manage others (see “First rule of management” posted June 25, 2012). The second rule of management is that t... read more » |
Nakisa Partner Forum 201210-Oct-2012 - Stephen Burr At the June HR 2012 conference in Milan, conversations with Nakisa’s VP of Alliances set the seeds of an idea to run a Nakisa Partner Forum. This resulted in Stephen Burr, our Global Nakisa lead, being invited to Nakisa’s head of... read more » |
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SECOND RULE OF MANAGEMENT24-Sep-2012 - Les Hayman The first rule of management is that successful management is actually more about how you manage yourself rather than being about how you manage others (see “First rule of management” posted June 25, 2012). The second rule of management is that t... read more » |
HUMAN ENERGY IS THE GREATEST RENEWABLE RESOURCE09-Jul-2012 - Les Hayman The dictionary defines renewable energy as “any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, such as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric powerthat is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.” I was in India ... read more » |
HOW TO SURVIVE AN INCOMPETENT BOSS11-Jun-2012 - Les Hayman We have all at one time or another been really disappointed with our boss, if for example it is because we believed that he had made some bad choices, struggled too long with a decision, or promoted someone who was more politician than profession... read more » |
Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 3) – Carrying out the upgrade24-May-2012 - Stephen Burr In part 1 I discussed why customers “bother” to upgrade their current Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) applications. In part 2, I discussed what you should know beforehand so that the environment is ready to install ... read more » |
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Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 2) – Preparing the Environment22-May-2012 - Stephen Burr In part 1 I discussed why customers “bother” to upgrade their current Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) applications. In this part, I will discuss what you should do to prepare the environment ready to install... read more » |
Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 1) – Why bother?18-May-2012 - Stephen Burr Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) was “born” in November 2007 when Nakisa’s products became a solution extension of SAP. Since that initial 1.0 release, the product has evolved, most recently with the release ... read more » |
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The Power of Visualisation18-Apr-2012 - Stephen Millard Overload Before we dive straight in I’d like you to take a few moments to consider a few questions.... Do you know how much data your brain can hold? Have you considered how much data gets channelled around the Internet every mi... read more » |
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HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SHOULD STEP ASIDE ?02-Apr-2012 - Les Hayman I have always believed that someone in a senior executive role, particularly a CEO, should not stay in the job for more than about 5-6 years, as I believe that everything that you will do after that is likely to be just a rerun, and you will also... read more » |
WHY ARE SO MANY MANAGERS SO BAD AT RECRUITING ?12-Dec-2011 - Les Hayman Putting the right people in the right place is a critical skill of any manager and yet for many this is a serious weakness, resulting in them regularly putting people into roles where they can’t succeed. Not only is this an expensive mistake to m... read more » |
SUN TZU WOULD GO BROKE TODAY03-Oct-2011 - Les Hayman I am amazed at how many business people falsely believe that “Business is War”, and how many young managers and MBA students see Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” as being the holy bible for waging business in the same way that one would wage war. I know th... read more » |
SELL, SELL, SELL01-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 MANAGEMENT30-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 FUTURE02-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 PLAYER26-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 ME16-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 LIES02-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 EFFECT22-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 HORSE02-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 OrgChart16-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 visualisation02-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 » |
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