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Linking Performance Appraisals to Business Plans


Performance appraisals should never be conducted in isolation of the overall business direction. It is important to link each person's goals and objectives back to the business overall goals and...
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Marketing @ UX Week


Yesterday our UX Week keynote speaker, Don Norman, talked a bit about how marketers make good allies for UX professionals because of their experience working with business units. This relationship has led marketers to get savvy about positioning...
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Gilbert and Sullivan present: The High-Tech Produc


I’ve always liked the Major General’s song from The Pirates of Penzance. Here’s how Gilbert and Sullivan *may* have described high-tech Product Managers. I am the very model of a high-tech product manager, I’ve information customer, partner and...
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Employee Performance Made (Much) Easier


A couple of months ago, I talked about how important managing employee performance was to the overall success of the business. If anything has changed in those last two months, it is that employee performance is a bigger deal than ever. If you own...
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Performance Training for Managers


Performance management systems really mean performance improvement for employees. I've heard sufficient stories to know that it doesn't always work out this way but on questioning HR people, employees and line managers, it is not the process or...
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IBM's starting to get SaaSy


I had a great meeting this morning with the folks running the SaaS initiatives at IBM. They've put one of their very smart and connected people, Sean Poulley, in charge of their internal SaaS initiatives - he's a very experienced exec and business...
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