http://www.getdriven.com Performance Driven Results Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:28:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now's the perfect time to discover how you can revolutionise your next performance review process. More and more, forward-thinking companies are using innovative technology to automate their performance and talent management processes - with dramatic results. Please wait a moment while you are redirected to the webinar page. http://www.getdriven.com/2008/09/redirecting-please-wait/ The best inventions and solutions are often simple and full of common sense. Whether onDemand or Software as a Service (SaaS - software deployed as a hosted service and accessed via the internet) can be classed as an invention is probably up for debate. However, a neat solution it definitely is. Now is ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/07/ondemand-its-pretty-smart-actually/ Community building and technology that goes with it (e.g. blogging) is my beloved niche. I personally love the web and the social aspects it can bring to anyone - on or offline. For me a learning community is generally just like any community. The principles for designing, launching, maintaining and ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/04/thinking-about-building-learning-communities/ Have you recently compared how you communicate and get things done in a personal sense compared to your work environment? I count myself lucky that the environment that I work in adopts technologies rapidly, not because they are new technologies, but because they are better ways at communicating and getting things ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/03/time-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee/ In January The London Business Forum put on a fab event with Sir Ken Robinson giving a talk on the War for Talent. Through humour and stories he argues that the world of human resources are facing a crisis and that things need to change. I will say no more. The ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/03/the-war-for-talent-with-sir-ken-robinson/ Seth is known for challenging the norm, thinking outside the box, yet talking and writing in a way that makes everything look so simple. I've observed various articles and blog posts trying to debate whether 'HR' should be renamed to Talent (Management). Lots of 'ooohs' and 'aaaahhhhs' and 'buts' flew ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/02/remarkable-purple-talent/ A survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers investigating the minds of CEOs has published the top 3 major concerns: The availability of key skills (61%) A downturn in major economies (57%) Over–regulation (55%) The interesting point from a Driven Systems perspective are CEOs concerns about lack of key skills. What key skills need improving upon? The points highlighted in ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/02/pricewaterhousecoopers-survey-ceos-are-concerned-about-skills-availabilty/ I had a great opportunity to see Sir Ken Robinson talk live yesterday, it was very inspiring. I could write 10 blog posts on many of the points he talked about and I probably will, just not all today! At the end of the talk there were some questions where ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/01/pixar-university/ No, this is not a lecture on how to be more eco friendly. It's about curiosity, exploration and trying to understand the truth. As opposed to being a fundamentalist - someone who first considers whether a fact is acceptable to their beliefs before exploring. Seth Godin uses the example of TV ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/01/have-you-switched-your-tv-off-yet/ University students don't use their brains enough resulting in mediocre or poor university research (and subsequently results). Apparently a big contribution to this is Google and Wikipedia. Professor Tara Brabazon from Brighton University has said: "Too many students don't use their own brains enough. We need to bring back the ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/01/banning-students-from-google-and-wikipedia-would-it-improve-results/