Tuesday, November 28, 2006

61% of Enterprise CIOs Are Planning to Adopt SaaS Apps
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By Isabel Wang

"I read about the latest McKinsey CIO survey on Nicholas Carr's blog. 61% of US and Canadian companies with over $1 billion in sales plan to adopt one or more SaaS apps in 2007. When McKinsey conducted the same survey in 2005, only 38% of the respondents had SaaS plans.

McKinsey says that CIOs are giving up on the notion that they must control 100% of their IT infrastructure. Instead, they are becoming more open to a "hybrid architecture" that combines internally and externally hosted components."

CEO of Salesforce.com, Marc BenioffSo I think Rackspace will see good ROI from its recent Salesforce.com certification. And I'm guessing other hosting providers will get involved with the Salesforce ecosystem next year. (ZDNet reports that in the last quarter, API transactions accounted for more than 50 percent of the 3.7 billion transactions on Salesforce.com's platform. They've got quite the ecosystem, and are expanding it with connectors and an outbound messaging API.)

Full article.


Monday, November 27, 2006

Z University's Intern Toolkit
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For those looking to start an internship program or if you want to revitalization your current one. This may be worth checking out.

From their site...

Z University's Intern Toolkit has everything a business needs to make an internship program successful and as easy as possible to manage. It guides users through a step-by-step system of best practices to recruit, train and supervise college interns and fully utilize their capabilities to create real value. Intern Toolkit includes a compilation of templates, tools, and tips to reduce time, save money and avoid mistakes.



Good luck.


Talent Management Gaining Importance
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Talent management is a hot topic among corporations around the world currently, said talent management expert William J. Rothwell.

Talent management consisted mainly of two components: replacement planning and succession planning, he said at a one-day strategic talent management seminar organised by The International Centre for Leadership in Finance (ICLIF) recently.

Replacement planning makes provision for the sudden loss of key people and is often limited to the top level of the organisation.

Succession planning on the other hand is a continuing effort to prepare people for future roles through their daily work.

Full article.


Monday, November 13, 2006

Power Networking
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One's network can be a powerful thing. Is it quality of your network or the quantity of your network...or a little of both.


Sunday, November 05, 2006

Personal Passion
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This guy has a passion for what he does like you wouldn't believe. But its his hobby, so I assume a lot of people have a lot of passion for their hobbies.

But if you can watch the whole segment, wait until the end when he talks about why he feels the the way he does. It IS POSSIBLE for an employer to address his remarks towards employees in a way that can come close to getting this kind of passion out of employees regarding their jobs. I've been treated like it...by mentors at a company...but never by my "employer" so to speak. But its still possible.