Talent Networking

It is not easy to retain the best people in our business and what I see is that the relevance that has not always understood by employers unless they begin to detect movement in the market and in that case, start to get nervous if the best are going to the competition.

The Aberdeen Group presents a new report, this time sponsored by Cezanne Software, a provider of advanced solutions for Human Capital Management, which corroborates how the performance management of employees is becoming again at the central strategy of enterprises when it comes to compromise and retain employees.

"The pressures that lead organizations to pursue the performance management of employees have changed in 2008 to reflect the pressing reality that is associated with the global shortage of talent," said Kevin Martin research director of Human Capital Management in Aberdeen. "The current shortage of skilled labor is assuming a real challenge to maintain a sufficient supply of talent, which is drifting in a more competitive environment that involves difficulty in retaining workers in more talent. Consequently, the best organizations are seeking ways to accommodate the entire demands of work and development as well as expectations of a diverse workforce, provide clarity and consistency among the priorities of working employees and business goals, and establish a sense mutual belonging and responsibility in this process between the employee and his/her supervisor. "

Here rewards available tools for managing the performance of employees (known as EPM-solutions-Employee Performance Management) and large companies have managed to increase by over 600% employee productivity as well as retention of the best " gray matter. "

Here I leave with you a link to the report for which I recommend reading:
Aberdeen Report on Talent Management

We return to a focus on the theme of giving it the importance it deserves the management of people. Today I had an argument with a businessman who told me that people are not important since "you say you have to do and how much easier it is better not to think", "if everything is no procedure or protocol has Why have the problem "and I ask myself: who is going to read those protocols and who will run in an efficient manner? A robot or a human mind?

I think it's an interesting reflection on calculating and assessing the knowledge-man-years that are lost when an employee leaves the company qualified and is going to competition: the training they received in ours and what has become a way induced or spontaneously.

If, moreover, the intellectual capital that we have made in our company as we integrate into a knowledge-sharing between providers and clients Multiplier effect is unimaginable, then becomes a Talent Networking also needs to be managed properly to ensure that investment in long - Money is profitable.

Recently I read an article in the tribune FREE written by Julio Perez-Roman Tomé (Corporate Dossier July 4-10) which stated something that we must not forget:

"You have to have enough talent to discover their own talent in others"

TRIZ more than a methodology

On June 24 I attended a conference entitled "Innovation with the TRIZ methodology" that gave Dr. Iouri Belski and organized by the chair of the UJI INCREA. The fact is that he did not know that methodology, and I found interesting to hear what I could say about TRIZ but my surprise was when I started and I saw the title: "Systematised Substance-Field Analysis: TRIZ Methology." At that point I thought: "I have the wrong site ... this is for engineers ..." but fortunately not I left ... I was wrong ... and fairly.

Dr. Belski focused his talk metolodogía in a structured and systematic thinking to solve problems related to engineering, where, from a set of "substances", "camps" (acoustic, mechanical ,...) 5 and applying rules, it was possible to find a solution to the problem.

The fact is that, under the talk was moving, I was realizing the power they had TRIZ but not only for solving engineering problems, but also as an ideal tool for conflict resolution behavior in organizations (Organizational Dynamics), only we must rebuild the foundation on which underpin the rules and then make the connections between nodes.

Ultimately, it was a lucky to have the opportunity to attend because now I have another thing in that thinking: How can seize TRIZ as a tool to support business start-ups or growth phase to improve the resolution of their conflict does not matter the nature of them.

Is this hybridization? I think so. I find it fascinating to find new ways of doing things based on concepts that are applied to very disparate fields.

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Utopia or Dystopia

The truth is that it is not easy to launch a STP, especially when you're the last to arrive and there are already many players that may have a symbiotic, synergistic or simply decoupled-related entrepreneurial initiatives. However, it is curious to note that outweighs the "ownership dissociative" that the synergistic. In a word, that each one travels free with "a casual encounter along the way."

I think it is very important that there is an alignment between all local actors which develops business-entrepreneurial activity, we stopped aside the suspicions, the sensitivities, fears and we really put our role in the socio-economic fabric of our area (read region, province, etc.).. In short, I am convinced that everybody wants to make its work relevant, appreciated and useful for the society they live in but I am quite sure that this result will be reinforced and multiplied if converge on this goal with other similar elements. But it will be time when we will have to give and take on other ... but that's the game.

And here, a STP has much to say and do. It is a pity that because of a lack of proper guidance, all efforts (especially human and financial) are in a "nothing" or a "little bit" due to lack of understanding, or simply by negligence or motivation.

We must recognize that, unfortunately, the political factor is fundamental to derail the project ... or give it a Herculean momentum and to avoid the first, or failure, it is necessary that we work as individuals and not organizations.

Here it needs to be made a key question:

The generation of local wealth Is it really a goal of all?

If so, there would be no reason to fear but do not see it that way and it causes considerable differences remain, but that does not add up.

For that reason, we must continue to innovate to find initiatives that enrich our environment, let vanales of prominence and superfluous to point out that we really have only one objective: to help our environment is on a scientific level, technology and humanist ... which will lead to value creation, wealth and welfare.

"Innovation is not only fun intelligence group" (Michael Nolan)

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Coopetition: a STP one more element

"Business is cooperation when it comes to creating a pie and competition when it divided" (Nalebug-Branderburger, 1996)

Though it may seem that the concept Coopetition-Cooperation and Competition (coined by Nalebug-Branderburger, 1996) applies only to businesses, it should be noted that a STP acting more like a business (regardless of its nature constitutive) and responds to the same pattern in As for interaction with the environment, that an enterprise (SME usually because of their size).

Therefore, in this case, a STP is not immune to this. That new mindset to consider competition and cooperation goes back to game theory applied to the world of business. This abstraction can be used similarly to the STP at the time to interact with the environment.

In this sense I think very useful to design a "map of net value" as it raises Nalebug-Branderburger focused on a STP that will allow us to make a reflection on customers, competitors, suppliers and completer.


Here we can already see the results of two symmetries very interesting: customer-supplier and competitor-completer. We must also take into account what enriches the map of net worth is that each player (customer, supplier, competitor and / or complement) has several roles and uses them as more appropriate.

I find interesting the fact incorporate game theory to the STP environment, and be able to identify players, rules, tactics and the pitch and everything in what order? just be able to identify the added value of each player in the process of generating wealth of the environment in which the STP is seen as added value as "what each player brings to the game" (Nalebug-Branderburger, 1996).

All the players joined, the oldest in the game and new. Sometimes, I see that incorporating a new player creates a structural instability in the environment because you have to redeploy the forces of cohesion between the different players and that is evident in instability sensitivities understandable but surmountable. We must avoid thinking about the fact that with each new addition is "every piece of the pie smaller," but that makes the cake is much more palatable if there coopetition.

Speaking of tasty cakes seems that now the theory of the management of parks will be similar to the theories of quantum physics which are color-flavor characteristics of the quantum particles ... but I do not pretend, however if it is related to what is claimed to speak for generating wealth in the socio-economic uniting the efforts of all players, making such an environment that incorporates the STP 3.0 as an asset and motor end to be, for tissue-business entrepreneur in the region

"A Great Place to Grow"

but let's talk about it later on ...

Open Source Services: something new?

One of the activities of a STP provides is a set of services to businesses located in the park that is supposed to go to improve their business functions and help them increase their productivity, however it seems that these services are provided in isolation The STP provides a list of providers of that service and becomes independent of the outcome of these and even the back of customer satisfaction once you have eaten. That independence on the one hand allows the STP does not get involved in the choice of provider and the other does not intervene in the valuation of that service. For single service: as an adviser to search, find sources of funding, and so on. may even be desirable, however, and following an article I read recently on the Open Source Software, which built other applications based on open access, but whose value added was operating as integrator or aggregator in all its essence, I I asked if there would be no way to act as a service provider "open" manner to provide a much higher value added.

That is, I believe that a OSSP (Open Source Services Provider) should be able to meet requests from a client (read company installed a STP ... or even does not have to ...) based on a set of suppliers in Based on an evaluation criterion weighted according to their business, and involve all relevant actors needed to make that request can be carried out with as much of the guarantees. The added value of a OSSP is to act as "middleware" between all vendors doing that all work together (building on a project management) but they function independently. The Open Source Software that lets you at any given time if there is an application-member global application that ceases to be valid, be replaced by another ensuring that the result will be the same with minimal changes in their integration, that is, in this " middleware that interconnects. The Open Source Services should be able to act likewise.

Creating protocols to be able to adjust the suppliers, it would be possible to provide a solution independent of who they are "physically" suppliers and rely solely on the basis of business that they play which in turn can be done by another supplier in case of that the first does not fulfill or ceases to be active.

Taking into account that now all providers must comply with a set of "communications protocols" to be able to establish the appropriate "connector" between them how base my choice of what provider is the best? simply because, in a series of indicators related to the quality of this "connector", its cost, its versatility to change the face of the provider you go online and to avoid that outcome is affected and the response time among others.

The value added of the STP is to provide, acting as OSSP, the 3D fractal structure consisting of nodes (suppliers) easily replaceable and interconnected by "standard connector" whose form will be different depending on the request. It is a good reflection huh?

Corporate Blogs a good way to communicate

With new technologies in the fields of communication, companies are making efforts to adapt and rely on tools very competitive and high added value for the development of their businesses. The so-called weblogs, or blogs are a very interesting primarily for their ability to interact with customers and the other for its accessibility.

The blogs began to be "daily" personal or professional in any case, however increasingly companies and used as Corporate Blogs. Blogs in general require periodic updates and messages are archived chronologically. These messages are added to public comments that might be moderate or not. There are an infinite number of types of blogs, as many as thematic or formats: personal news, business or corporate, technological, educational, political, etc., and according to their content, are presented as fotologs, Videoblogs or audioblogs.

From a business point of view, I would distinguish between two types: those used for client feedback on services provided by the company and those used by the entrepreneurs. The former are very important because they allow "open its eyes" to the company versus what your customers demand (that is what I have called more than once society of the conversation, a term coined Vicente Verdu), and these opinions, like which can see you anywhere in the blogosphere, should not be underestimated by the company. It would not be the first nor the last time that a company finds out what evil that it does through the blogosphere and when it's too late.

The second, from my point of view, are the most interesting because they are real forums where the present and future entrepreneurs can present their ideas and receive feedback from the public, which can be shared "world views" with other entrepreneurs and even start a relationship commercial. This is where you can better fathom the market, and if our future product will be welcome or not.

The truth is that the use of blogs by companies involves a change of mentality in the management of relations with its government. In addition, it indicates a trend toward entities more open, transparent and willing to cooperate.

As I said before, new technology and specifically the blogs, because of their interactive nature, represent one of the best ways to establish this exchange with our audience. A very telling example is the Mozilla Firefox browser, its launch was made from a single blog in 99 days and managed to download 25 million and now is the biggest rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

However, I understand that at the beginning our blog may cause fear and to the conversation and message is uncontrollable but on the other hand do not bring messages of our clients / consumers / users who may be crucial to find that aspect differentiator with the competition: to know listen to those who actually have the final word on the market -> customers.

I think I mentioned somewhere else but I recommend the Manual of the blog on the company by Alberto Ortiz de Zarate Third. What can download from the Web Infonomía.

We also included a list of good corporate blogs:

* Babies and more: http://www.bebesymas.com/
Thematic niche blog sponsored by Sanitas

* Blog of the Hotel del Pintor: http://www.hoteldelpintor.com/blog/
Blog of a corporate design hotel in Malaga

* BlueBBVA: http://soy.bluebbva.com/
Network of blogs theme music, soccer and travel-oriented target youth

* Inside AdSense: http://adsense-es.blogspot.com/
Blog official Google AdSense program geared to website publishers

* FON Blog: http://blog.fon.com/es/
FON's official blog project

* Ingredients: http://www.the-cocktail.com/ingredientes/
Blog corporate consultancy The Cocktail

* Live the city: http://www.vivelaciudad.es/
Blog network of cities driven by the chain NH Hoteles

* Vodafone 3GSM: http://www.vodafone3gsm.com/
Blog corporate event for the coverage of the 3GSM Congress

To end, what has to do with the STP 3.0? Much truth, I consider that a blog STP can be used to assess future services that want to lend to a company located in the park, sharing views on specific strategies with other parks, customers (and future) ... anything that involves a reflection is positive.

Learning to extrapolate Web 2.0

The advantage of new social trends is that it is always possible to obtain conclusions that would allow you to create an extrapolation environment where you work. Yesterday, reading the European Communications Spring I found an article called me a lot of attention: "Detailed insight" written by Dante Iacovoni, Marketing Director of Tilgin. This article reflects on how operators could benefit from the lessons learned from the success of Web 2.0 phenomenon. and found some prospects that I think deserve to face another reflection of the activity of a PCT and even businesses that are in the process of creation-growth ...

Iacovoni says that the main key to this success, as I say the phenomenon of Web 2.0, is the information that companies have 2.0 of its users / customers / consumers and how they use this information to their benefit. It seems that in the end come back to one of the concepts found in the book "A Guide for use in the company's Blog" by Alberto Ortiz de Zarate and commented briefly on the bulletin-INFO espaitec # 10: "The society of the conversation" , Labelled by Vincent Verdú (I and your luxury objects, Barcelona, 2005). That is to say that "great conversation in which organizations are involved and consumers."

In other words, the definition of services offered to customers / users / consumers have to be much more than simple menus, or the typical "coffee for all". It is not easy but in society-century in which we find ourselves, where the user / client / consumer is increasingly demanding and have more access to information on global trends, markets and services, it is necessary to offer services / products other than convincing and they are really where users / customers / consumer demand. It is necessary "that conversation" to learn about the preferences, tastes and wants of objective elements (customer target) to accommodate our offer and make more effective its capitalization, and we are not talking about competition for price but by quality of service and content / product.

The term "individual" takes more relevant now, because as such has a number of preferences and we have to cover shortfalls and services / products that are designed to appear to be defined "ad hoc" for each and be able to make sense to users / customers / consumers that are unique and that our treatment is totally custom.

This, as commented at the outset, is extrapolated to PCTs towards the services they render to the companies installed in their infrastructure (real or virtual) and is a concept to grasp to companies that are beginning their journey. The review of the business models of face-to face the new "model client" is vital to achieve a high probability of success. It is time to start talking about a new type of services: Open Source Services.

"The future is the new services and applications as well as new business models"