Is Yahoo the answer to Cisco's prays?

Posted 10 months ago by Ed Charvet
31/08/2007

We heard from Yahoo about a focus in strategy on "openness" relating to the platform and the desire to begin to support the capability for specialist communities to appear, form, grow and die within a natural life cycle aided by the intuitive profile.  So we were intrigued to read on Techcrunch about Yahoo Kickstart, a concept in gestation that may allow recruiters and graduates to network together.  Take the conversation that we were party to in Cisco only a couple of months ago when the Marketing team explained that recruitment from their perspective at graduate level had already dived in...

Facebook at work

Posted 10 months ago by Jon Mell
30/08/2007

The banning Facebook issue seems to have caught on in the press today. There is an article on the BBC News site here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6969791.stm. I was with a customer yesterday who asked a similar question. My response is that you deal with someone who spends too much time on Facebook in exactly the same way as someone who spends too much time emailing, or taking too long at lunch. Their performance drops and you put them through standard disciplinary reviews. Of course, in certain roles it could be that their performance increases as they take on board new ideas about work from...

4 rules of partnering

Posted 10 months ago by Ed Charvet
29/08/2007

Trovus found itself in a partnering meeting today.  This is not the first time we have found ourselves in such a meeting, mainly because we have been pushing to find partners since about our third coaching session.  In Shirlaw's language partnering is described as distribution and the concept is an incredibly sound one.  Find someone who has lots of good relationships and get them to introduce you to their clients.  Only, what's in it for them?Have something bloody good to talk about.The onus is on you to have the pitch of pitches.  Your offering may not be unique, but the...