Being curious about customers without having a “sales” agenda

October 9th, 2013

When I started at TPO in 2012, as any good CEO would do, I began quickly immersing myself in the company’s operations and in understanding the market–basically bottom and top lines respectively. For the latter, we decided to interview some of our customers and other contacts. We wanted to find out, of course, how TPO […]

Reinforcing the mission: For TPO, it’s all in the wrist(bands).

October 2nd, 2013

Every important message in business has to continually be reinforced to the intended audience. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of words that blend into the background noise.

For example, TPO’s mission, or mantra if you will, is to make sure our clients’ HR strategies and priorities are driven by their business objectives and priorities. This ensures […]

Clients Say the Most Amazing Things: The Critical Role of People in the World of Big Data

August 27th, 2013

From time to time, TPO posts first-hand C-Level business perspectives, excerpted from an ongoing series of conversations we have with our clients. This one is from the President of a medical professional association:

“People have access to so much information. It’s hard to know what to believe. It’s hard to know what to trust. […]

Enough whining that CEOs don’t value HR enough. CEOs don’t need to change–but HR probably does.

August 13th, 2013

Because this is the first post for our new blog that resides within TPO’s new web site, it’s critical that we set the tone for our philosophy and approach as a business.

The first thing I realized is that it is difficult to write about HR-related topics without falling back on so many of the expressions […]