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Heart and Hustle in Indian HR #hrtech

Heart and Hustle in Indian HR #hrtech

By Sameer Patel on September 2, 2014

This past week was an immersive boot camp for me on the state of human capital management in India. I had the privilege of keynoting two events – TechHR 2014, India’s first HR Tech Conference in Gurgaon, followed by HRConnect, SAP/ Successfactors regional HR conference in Mumbai and participating in a working dinner session with 18 CHRO’s representing some […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Collaborative HR Performance, Digital Transformation, Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, sap, speaking

Why Human Capital must fuel Digital Transformation

Why Human Capital must fuel Digital Transformation

By Sameer Patel on August 3, 2014

With every innovation spurt comes a fresh call for Human Capital Management to stand up and secure its place at the strategic table. The emerging concept around Digital Transformation is no different. We’ve spent the last 50 years digitizing. Transformation is now underway. As I wrote in a previous post: “Travelocity changed how we purchase […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative HR Performance, Digital Transformation, Event Reviews, speaking | 2 Responses

Discussing Cloud and Digital Transformation in Sydney

Discussing Cloud and Digital Transformation in Sydney

By Sameer Patel on July 8, 2014

Following on the heels of our SAP Jam work patterns and developer platform release, I’m heading back to Sydney for customer meetings and two very interesting industry events/ get-togethers lined up. The broader area of discussion will be Cloud but as you might suspect the topic of digital transformation and future of work will get […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Digital Transformation, speaking

Networked Enterprises: Social Business Forum #sbf13

Networked Enterprises: Social Business Forum #sbf13

By Sameer Patel on June 10, 2013

This week I have the privilege of keynoting the Social Business Forum in Milan once again, along with esteemed industry colleagues such as R “Ray” Wang, Esteban Kolsky, Sandy Carter, Michael Brito and others. The concept of networked enterprises is something that’s top of mind for me these days as we chart the next chapter of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Collaborative Organizations, Innovation and Crowd-Sourcing, speaking

“The new business requirements of the social, mobile, consumer enterprise” – #SAPPHIRENOW

“The new business requirements of the social, mobile, consumer enterprise” – #SAPPHIRENOW

By Sameer Patel on May 12, 2012

I’m privileged to be doing a keynote discussion with ZDNet columnist and Asuret CEO Michael Krigsman at a pre-conference event at ASUG / SAP SAPPHIRE event tomorrow (Sunday).  The larger topic is consumerization of IT and the move to the Cloud, but in many ways, the idea is to talk about the reset of the relationship between […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, speaking

BigData, Mobile and Cloud Convergence: The Elephants

BigData, Mobile and Cloud Convergence: The Elephants

By Sameer Patel on February 15, 2012

Eric Norlin, organizer of Defrag, Blur and Glue Conferences and seed investor, has a good post up today about what enterprise development means in the age of big data, mobile and cloud and the coming age of convergence of these big innovation spurts. I really recommend that you take 3 minutes to read his post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Measurement and Analytics, mobile enterprise, SaaS and Cloud, speaking | 1 Response

[Video] What Social Business Really Entails.

[Video] What Social Business Really Entails.

By Sameer Patel on January 30, 2012

Information Week contributing editor Lenny Liebmann and I had a chat at IBM’s Lotusphere 2012 / IBMConnect event in Orlando last week. Lenny wanted to dig deeper into Social Business and get into the ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’. We talked about a decisive approach to connecting customers, employees and partners and covered a number of topics including: […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Organizations, Customer Interaction and SocialCRM, speaking

BIG Brands Collaborating to Accelerate Performance. [#e2conf Preview]

BIG Brands Collaborating to Accelerate Performance. [#e2conf Preview]

By Sameer Patel on November 7, 2011

Seems like I just got off a plane from this summer’s Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference. But here we are again — the Santa Clara edition of Enterprise 2.0 is around the corner, from the 14th — 17th of November. The event has a good keynote line up that includes the likes of Sandy Carter of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Sales Performance, e2conf, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Event Reviews, speaking

Oracle OpenWorld: Fifteen Minutes with Mark Hurd.

Oracle OpenWorld: Fifteen Minutes with Mark Hurd.

By Sameer Patel on October 4, 2011

I spent fifteen minutes with Oracle’s President, Mark Hurd, along with Sudhir Chowdhary from the Financial Express yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld 2011.  These were the big take aways from our conversation: 1. Collaboration Moving Front and Center Oracle seems to have rationalized its’ investments in the areas of content and collaboration technology and has come […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Organizations, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, speaking | 2 Responses

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