Digital Road Warriors: Managing Top Talent on the Move

02/03/15 • 58 min

Digital World with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

The buzz: On the Road Again. Looking to fast-track to the proverbial corner office in a global organization? Three requirements. Be a recognized top talent. Keep your bags packed for off-site travel on a moment’s notice. Smile when relocated to foreign destinations. Sounds like an exciting career, right? Not so much, say the 60% of mobile high-achievers who resign within a year of returning home from a foreign assignment. Could HR systems and processes be at fault? The experts speak. Michael Romero, Deloitte: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (A. Einstein) brbr Stacey Harris, Sierra-Cedar: “The worst thing an organization can do is to try to ‘keep’ talent.” brbr Dr. Steven Hunt, SuccessFactors: “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” (Mark Twain) brbr Join us for Digital Road Warriors: Managing Top Talent on the Move

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Mobile and User Experience: Exploring New Frontiers

The buzz: UX One iPhone puts more computing power in the palm of your hand than all of MIT had a few decades ago. Augmenting this enormous power with near-constant connectivity and expanding it to wearables and other innovations, the mobile revolution has radically redefined our relationship with technology. What’s out? Monolithic apps, heavyweight program suites, perfection and comprehensiveness. What’s in? Lightweight purpose-built apps, speed and availability. The experts speak. Scott Bonnell, Mocana: “Nielsen claims that the average smartphone owner has more than 27 apps on their phone, yet IDC claims that 61% of Fortune 1000 companies have 3 or fewer apps.” (Nielsen and IDC) Owen Pettiford, CompriseIT: “Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?” (The Wizard of Oz) Adi Kavaler, SAP: “The future is not what it used to be.” (Yogi Berra, NY Yankees, 1974) Join us for Mobile and User Experience: Exploring New Frontiers.