Performance Reviews, Challenges, and SuccessFactors – an employee’s view

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Around three months ago I had my regular catch-up with my manager on performance objectives. Shortly afterwards I shared a less formal version of this meeting with my CEO who keeps in personal touch with each individual employee. On both these occasions I offered that I love what I do but I was looking for [...]

Around three months ago I had my regular catch-up with my manager on performance objectives. Shortly afterwards I shared a less formal version of this meeting with my CEO who keeps in personal touch with each individual employee. On both these occasions I offered that I love what I do but I was looking for a new challenge within the company.

Now some three short months later all staff received news that has literally handed me my request on a plate. Infohrm will be acquired by SuccessFactors and the deal will settle in the third quarter of 2010.

It seems that if you hanker after something you might just receive it.

I’ve spent a fair bit of time since the announcement watching the reaction to the acquisition on the internet. There has been plenty of activity. These two companies already do something pretty special for their clients separately and there are some really nice synergies in a joint offering. The prospect of what they could do as a single entity is pretty compelling.

The exciting thing is that much of the reaction to this news has been positive. Obviously it’s caveated by questions around integration of technologies, service models, frameworks and organisational cultures but none the less still positive. None of these questions are concerning. It’s just about great change management. Do SuccessFactors and Inform Business Impact offer something that no one else in the world does? From where I sit it’s a given.

And for those commenting online that they missed the name change from Infohrm to Inform spare a thought for those staff who have typed the old name every day of their tenure and now have to get used to dropping the ‘h’. Old habits die hard but I think it’s a change I am pretty happy to get used to.

Now within a day of this news all staff received a reminder that the next round of performance reviews are upon us. Somehow I don’t think I am going to have any trouble coming up with my objectives for 2010!



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