John Schwarz
During his tenure as CEO of Business Objects, John doubled the company’s revenue to more than $1.5 billion, executed seven strategic acquisitions, and negotiated the company’s successful sale to SAP. He founded Visier, building on his many years of experience to invent a new approach to answering business intelligence questions. The objective was to fix the perennial problem where business users spend a lot of money on IT and get little or no benefit in return. John is a water baby, always to be found on or in, but never more than a few feet away from a (preferably warm) ocean.
Latest articles by John Schwarz
Ask These 6 Critical Questions to Assess Management Effectiveness
How does a business assess management effectiveness? Here are six key questions that provide leading insight into management effectiveness.
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4 Steps to Retraining Employees in the Age of A.I.
A key challenge of the AI revolution is workers have less time to retrain themselves. Discover steps to retraining and reskilling employees.
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The Disconnect Between People and Business Strategy
There is a gap between the data that CEOs need to run the business and what HR reports on. Here is how to build a strategic HR function.
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Why Workforce Intelligence Is Essential to Healthcare HR Transformation
To avoid drops in service quality and patient satisfaction scores, healthcare HR needs to estimate and track hiring rates more accurately.
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5 Ways Leaders Achieve Genuine Employee Engagement
As a leader, when you combine L&D with a culture of trust, the results are a high performing, highly engaged workforce. Here's how.
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