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Yikes!  Is Oracle Reeling In Salesforce And NetSuite?

Yikes! Is Oracle Reeling In Salesforce And NetSuite?

By Naomi Bloom on June 26, 2013

The Manchurian Candidate Goes Silicon Valley After two intense days, a real geekfest with clients, and then catching up on the info tech happenings so far this week, I’m exhausted.  Yes, we’re all buried in Oracle announcements, and it’s astonishing how wild is some of the coverage. Oracle’s partnering with Microsoft is interesting (you’ll have to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cornerstone OnDemand, enterprise software, HRM/IT Intersection, Larry's Kids, Licensed/On-Premise Software, Manchurian Candidate, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Fusion, Ruminations, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAPSFSF, workday | 2 Responses

There Are No Stars On A Failed Project!

There Are No Stars On A Failed Project!

By Naomi Bloom on February 14, 2013

There was quite a lot of discussion on Twitter and in the blogosphere earlier this week about a major payroll project disaster plaguing the State of California government.  That discussion broadened to include tales of more failed payroll as well as ERP and various other large-scale systems projects.  If you want to immerse yourself in tales of such disasters, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged California, GoAnimate, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, payroll, Ruminations, sap, SAP AG

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

Reprise: Legacy HRMS/Legacy Marriage: Sunk Costs Versus Innovation

By Naomi Bloom on August 20, 2012

[I wrote this post in June, 2010, just when Al and Tipper Gore had announced their separation mid-2010, at a time when true SaaS InFullBloom was in its infancy.  I was spending a ton of time with a wide range of vendors, some licensees of my “Starter Kit,” working hard on the next generation of […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged best practices, Business Outcomes, enterprise software, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HRM Software, Ruminations, Strategic HRMDS Planning

Naomi’s Top Ten List — Coping With Vendor Consolidation

Naomi’s Top Ten List — Coping With Vendor Consolidation

By Naomi Bloom on June 11, 2012

Don't Let This Happen To You!

Last week I delivered a keynote for HR Technology Week  which I hope many of you attended and/or for which you have access to the replay.  I thought that the top ten preparedness list I created for this session, with many thanks to Ed Frauenheim for suggesting it, might make a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged best practices, Debunking/Calling Out, HRM Software, M&A/PE/Ownership Changes, Ruminations | 1 Response

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

By Naomi Bloom on May 29, 2012

The Message Is Clear! In the first three posts of this series, here, here and here, I reflected on various aspects of building and sustaining a long and successful career.  Now it’s time to sum up the lessons of my own career, a long professional run for which I’m truly grateful. There’s been a huge portion of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aging, Employment, HRM, Human resource management, Life's Challenges, linkedin, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Professional development, Ruminations, Twitter

Potential HRM Enterprise Software Landscape Disruptions — Microsoft

Potential HRM Enterprise Software Landscape Disruptions — Microsoft

By Naomi Bloom on May 14, 2012

With the first post in this series, I introduced my concept of potential disruptors and other sources of disruption to the HRM enterprise software landscape.  In that post I used Kronos and a hypothesized expansion of their functional footprint — a huge expansion of their functional footprint — combined with their global distribution capabilities, competent leadership, and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged disruptive technologies, enterprise software, HRM Software, HRMS Disruptions, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, Ruminations, Uncategorized | 1 Response

Potential HRM Enterprise Software Landscape Disruptions — Introduction And Kronos

Potential HRM Enterprise Software Landscape Disruptions — Introduction And Kronos

By Naomi Bloom on May 7, 2012

It’s Not The Ripples From A Single Pebble But Their Interactions With Others That’s My Mental Image of Market Disruption Introduction The idea for this series comes from the work I did to update my competitive landscape talking points before several recent client meetings.  After updating the vendor by vendor notes which are at the core […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged disruptive technologies, enterprise software, HRM Software, HRMS Disruptions, Looking Back/Looking Forward, M&A/PE/Ownership Changes, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, Ruminations | 1 Response

Making My Peace With Not Knowing / Following / Connecting / Clicking Through Etc.

Making My Peace With Not Knowing / Following / Connecting / Clicking Through Etc.

By Naomi Bloom on April 9, 2012

As a toddler, I took great pride in being able to rattle off the names of all the Kittredges (Barry, Bobby, Eddy, Georgie, Chucky, Sydney, Al, Ralph and Adele), a large family who lived across from us on Somerset Street.  Later, it was important to me to have read every Nancy Drew mystery then every Agatha Christie then […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Ruminations, Social Technology | 1 Response

Reflections On A Long Career — Part III — The Network Effect

Reflections On A Long Career — Part III — The Network Effect

By Naomi Bloom on March 16, 2012

Tales Of The Mighty Rolodex It always was and always will be about the power of the network.  It really does “take a village,” the mutual support we derive from friends, family and colleagues, not only to raise our children but also to help us every step of the way through life.  We owe so much to those from […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Aging, Friendship, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, network effect, Rolodex, Ruminations

Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes

Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes

By Naomi Bloom on February 5, 2012

Larry Seidel’s Other Interests My first post in this series was about what we can do to prepare for and sustain a long, productive and satisfying career.  In this post, I’d like to give credit — and there’s a lot to give — to the people who helped shaped the professional I became.  We should all be […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Aging, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Ruminations | 3 Responses

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