I recently met
Chris Pieper
over lunch at UC Davis, where I also enjoyed the best years of my life as an
undergraduate. Chris had a sparkle in his eye that took me back to my college
days. You just don’t see that kind of sparkle in the business world very often.
The sparkle I saw was the excitement for revolutionizing the game of
management.
Chris is CEO of Alliance Enterprises
based in Washington state. He founded and grew ABC Technologies and
BetterManagment.com back in 90’-00’ and sold them to the SAS in 2002.
He’s led Alliance for 7 years and now moving back into the space. There
are a dozen or so supercool software startups entering the EGM space. The fact
that Alliance is a 100+ person software company makes them an intriguing new
entrant in the burgeoning goals software space.
Alliance just announced their market introduction with an
open beta period for
MyObjectives. Their solutions focus on “team-level
scorecards” and build upon past management methodologies such as Balanced
Scorecard, MBOs and OKRs with an integration of Gamification.
Alliance was using early generations of MyObjectives internally
for several years. I’m looking forward to covering the MyObjectives story as
part of my industry research with
Eckerson Group.
As for sparkle, check out this
short video.
You’ll see that sparkle when Chris talks. If you watch closely, you might catch
the sparkle in my eyes as well!