In an article published by SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management, they state the “total costs of replacement, including training and loss of productivity, can range from 90% to 200% of an employee’s annual salary”. That’s an...
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Relieving the global mobile testing burden
Over the last few weeks, I have been traveling in Europe, Asia and North America and have had the opportunity to meet many of our testers at a series of open house events and with clients in the US, UK, France, India, the Netherlands, Germany...
Read moreAre Microsoft the next big consumerisers of Enterprise IT?
Back in 2007 I wrote a series of papers on how Shadow IT, that was IT that was within the business, was one of the biggest trends facing IT. 'Out of Darkness Cometh Light' was about how Mashup developed applications on a managed infrastructure...
Read moreThe Perfect Storm at Sapphire in Madrid
The Perfect Storm arrived on the 12th of November, when SAP hosted the Sapphire/TechEd event in Madrid. The buses waiting all over town to get SAP guests to the conference venue in the event of a national transportation strike made it clear that...
Read moreSetup a Center of Excellence for maximum RoI on your Social Strategy
The social revolution is transforming business. The growing usage of social media and Web 2.0 tools are radically altering the way enterprises connect and engage with customers. It is also changing how they collaborate internally, and with...
Read moreThe Tangled Web of Federal Government Receivables –Presidential election now concluded, the complexity of collecting from the Federal Government will remain.
Selling goods or services to the Federal government, without question, brings with it some of the most difficult receivables processes in the O2C Space. The complex network of regulations and technology requirements can create long delays and...
Read moreFive User Experience Takeaways from Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy caused a lot of devastation last month, including leaving millions in the New York area without electricity. While our family was blessed with not having to deal with flooding, a blackout meant no Wi-Fi and only a few hours of...
Read moreHow will owners of Intellectual Property cope with the era of big and open data?
The concept of Intellectual Property (IP) is well proven as a powerful incentive that drives creativity and innovation, but it is increasingly being challenged by a highly connected world, particularly in all aspects of digital information and...
Read moreCan You Handle the Truth about BPM?
I had a very interesting meeting with the divisional CIO of a Fortune 50 firm in the past week. He had been approach by his business stakeholders to see if Business Process Management suites (BPMS) could be used to optimize and automate their...
Read moreWorld Quality Report – demand for Testing is shifting and expanding
The findings of this year's World Quality Report show that the demand for Testing is expanding in scope and shifting towards more specialized Testing, i.e. Mobility Testing, cloud based Testing platforms and increased industrialization. More and...
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