Microsoft HR kills its hated 'stack-ranking'

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	Richi Jennings: SHOCK! Microsoft HR kills its hated 'stack-ranking' Et tu, brutal Microsoft? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is eliminating its much-maligned way of evaluating staff performance and deciding on pay and bonuses. Its forced ranking distribution method, known as "stack ranking" has been blamed for causing the decline of the company in recent years. But, in IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder whether the new system will be any better. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff In this Issue JR Raphael: Android 4.4, KitKat: The poise and the polish Preston Gralla: 6 reasons Tony Bates should be the next Microsoft CEO Michael Svilar: The ABC's: Clarifying terms to simplify analytics Andrew Litt: Why integrating EMRs and digital images is an ethical and practical imperative Sharky: It's always raining on somebody's parade WHITE PAPER: Krux People Data Management: Premise and Promise The consumer web has given rise to a new normal. Always-on communications has transformed people's expectations and reshaped how they interact with companies. People Data Management systems offer a new class of enterprise software that allows companies to confront the implications of the people web. Read now! JR Raphael: Android 4.4, KitKat: The poise and the polish Google's Android 4.4 KitKat release packs plenty of significant changes, but the software also includes quite a few subtle enhancements that you may not have yet noticed. Read More   Preston Gralla: 6 reasons Tony Bates should be the next Microsoft CEO Of the rumored potential replacements for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, there's one who is clearly the best bet: former Skype CEO and current Microsoft Executive Vice President Tony Bates. Here are six reasons he'd be the best choice. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Proof that Smarter Government is also Better Government This videocast on October 23 at noon ET will give you a rare opportunity to hear from your peers & IBM experts about the power of business analytics to make your budgeting and finance processes as fast, accurate and transparent as you need them to be. Learn More. Michael Svilar: The ABC's: Clarifying terms to simplify analytics Read More   Andrew Litt: Why integrating EMRs and digital images is an ethical and practical imperative We've all been there. Following an injury, you or a family member gets an X-ray or MRI but when you follow up with a specialist a few weeks later, he or she can't access the study. In this age of rapid-fast information sharing, it's hard to understand why this still happens. Do we have the technology to solve the problem? Read More   Sharky: It's always raining on somebody's parade This IT pilot fish is deployed to Iraq as a communications officer, which mainly involves computer networks -- including an "Internet cafe" for his unit's troops. And in the desert, you wouldn't think rain is a likely problem. Read More
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