March, 2007

South African businesspeople in the US

Posted by beyond438 on Mar 29, 2007 in Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, South Africa | 0 comments

As a South African businessman living in the US, I’m always interested to find and research other successful South African businesspeople in America. This is the start of a series that will continue until I run out of people to profile.South Africa is known for a number of famous people. Nelson Mandela, Ernie Els, Gary Player, Charlize Theron, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu fame) and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. I know of a number of others, however you’ll have to wait to hear about them. My focus will be on businesspeople and not celebrities or politicians.Next time I’ll start by profiling Elon Musk of SpaceX.Send me an email if you want me to profile a specific businessperson.

SAP HR2007 in Vegas – Update

Posted by beyond438 on Mar 20, 2007 in HCM, SAP | 0 comments

I had a very productive time in Vegas attending the SAP HR, FI and GRC conference from March 11-13. I met a number of business associates and former colleagues. This is a great conference to learn more about the SAP product set, as well as to network with business partners and customers. The Venetian Hotel is a stunning venue and a very impressive hotel. It’s also a very big venue — I got a lot of exercise walking back and forth between the exhibit hall and the coffee shops.My good friend, Ken Kiefer, at Wispubs shared the following information about the conference:

• About 4800 people attended the conference, and 1700 HR attendees,
• with 96 unique vendors,
• 301 total presentations and
• attendees from 53 countries including: Denmark, China, Israel, South Africa and Mexico.

This is a great example of a very focused and well-executed conference. If you attended, please let me have your comments.Interesting story: March 13 @ 2:30am the Stardust Hotel was imploded and they did it in Vegas style. See it all on youtube:

Launching the Beyond438 Web site today!

Posted by beyond438 on Mar 12, 2007 in Business, Technology | 0 comments

I am proud and excited to announce my new Web site today. The name of my consulting company is Beyond438 and you can read all about this interesting name on the Web site.Please review the Web site and send me a private email or leave a comment on this blog.

SAP HR2007: March 12-14, 2007

Posted by beyond438 on Mar 5, 2007 in HCM, SAP | 0 comments

SAPInsider will be hosting this year’s SAP HR conference in Las Vegas from March 12-14. This year it will be combined with the SAP Financials 2007 and SAP Governance, Risk, Compliance 2007 conferences.I will be attending to represent one of my clients and hope to see you there. Let me know and we can catch up over a coffee.Update: Next year’s conference, SAP HR2008, will be held in Orlando from March 10-12, 2008.