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Saba Announces Top “New World of Work” Trends for 2013
Jan. 30, 2013 08:08 AM
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise
solutions, today announced its industry insights for 2013 trends
impacting today’s “New World of Work.” Supporting more than 2,100
organizations and more than 31 million users worldwide with its learning
and talent
management products, Saba
has insight and knowledge around how businesses, government agencies and
non-profits can best enable their people to accomplish work. Saba’s
vision for this “New World of Work” applies to organizations of all
sizes, anywhere in the world.
As the adoption of mobile devices in the workplace continues to
accelerate, the method in which people access and share information is
rapidly changing. They demand access to their work applications,
information and colleagues wherever they are and on whatever device they
choose. Organizations must cater to this environmental shift, ensuring
they support their most important asset, their people, with the
technology framework and business processes to excel in their work.
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According to Saba, the “New World of Work” trends to watch include:
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The Move to Hyper-Specialization: Work will become more of
a tradable asset. There will be more independent contractors and
freelancers with “hyper-specialization,” in addition to regular
employees with generalized know-how. Moreover, companies
increasingly will rely on crowdsourcing to secure skills and
services, allocate tasks and complete projects.
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Content Goes Increasingly Social and HD: People will
increasingly consume information from an expanding range of
content types. These include HD video streaming, live news feeds,
documents and VoIP. There will also be an increased demand for
platforms that deliver the desired content globally. These include
live web meetings, webinars and interactive virtual classrooms
optimized for low-bandwidth networks.
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Heightened Power of “People Networks”: Employees, partners
and customers will increasingly leverage social enterprise
platforms to remove siloes and better collaborate, innovate,
receive instant feedback and learn like they never have before.
Organizations need to remove the boundaries of the enterprise in
order to really understand and leverage the collective
intelligence and collaborative effectiveness.
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Increased Demand for Leaders Everywhere: The continued
globalization and increased growth in emerging markets will
require companies to look for and develop international leaders at
a greater rate. Companies will need professionals with global
awareness, fluency, corporate acumen and cultural understanding to
achieve their business success. Technology is the key to enabling
organizations, regardless of size, to perform business worldwide.
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Social, Real-Time Collaboration and Gamification Join the
Enterprise: These applications will become the fabric and
inherent capability of many enterprise offerings this coming year.
To fully support its workforce, companies need to embed social and
collaboration capabilities into existing business processes. It’s
more than real-time access to data on devices, it’s being able to
analyze, collaborate and engage with that data.
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Increased Use of Modern People Management: Managing
performance will move from an annual event to one with continuous
360 feedback, alignment, communication, development and
transparency. Anyone in a person’s people network will also be
able to provide constructive feedback to current projects or
tasks, in addition to that person’s goals. Gaps will be
identified, with formal or informal development activities
assigned by managers in real time.
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Careers Changing Shape: Careers will become more fluid and
less linear or ladder-shaped. People will have more jobs during
their careers, with more careers during their work. This will
require continuous learning, development and acquisition of new
skills anytime – whether employees are traveling abroad or sitting
at their cubicle in the company’s headquarters.
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The changing workplace is the crux of Saba’s vision for a “New World of
Work” that the industry will see evolve in 2013 and in the years to
come. No longer are business operations held within the confines of an
8-to-5 workday, onsite at the employers’ offices or just amongst
employees. This new world is social, transparent and collaborative, a
place where people are personally motivated to deliver quality,
value-intensive work at anytime and on any platform.
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About Saba
Saba (NASDAQ: SABA)
enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages
the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile
to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets – its people.
The company provides a set of people-centric enterprise solutions to
various businesses and industries worldwide. Saba delivers cloud-based learning
management, talent
management, and social
enterprise solutions to transform the way people work.
Saba's premier customer base includes major global organizations and
industry leaders in financial services, life sciences and healthcare,
high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities,
packaged goods, and public sector organizations. Headquartered in
Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For
more information, please visit www.saba.com
or call +1-877-SABA-101 or +1-650-779-2791. SABA, the Saba logo, and the
marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are
either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its
affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
Safe Harbor
The industry trends and predictions included in this press release may
be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal
securities laws. Saba’s ability to benefit from any such industry trends
or predictions is uncertain. These uncertainties include risks
associated with Saba’s ability to file its delayed periodic reports with
the SEC and regain compliance with Nasdaq filing requirements, Saba’s
dependence on growth of the markets for its products and acceptance of
Saba's products by customers and channel partners, fluctuation in
customer spending, length of Saba's sales cycle, competition, rapid
technological change, dependence on new product introductions and
enhancements, and potential software defects. Readers should refer to
the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended May 31, 2011, and similar disclosures in subsequent reports filed
with the SEC. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this
press release are based on information available to Saba today. Saba
assumes no obligation to update them.
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