Strategic Alliance

Leading Experts on Management Innovation Join Forces

Redwood Shores/Woodside CA (USA), May 2011 - Saba, a people cloud provider, has announced its strategic alliance with the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), a community of progressive management innovators architected by Gary Hamel. The MIX is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.




It is founded on the belief that to thrive in the 21st century, organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and socially accountable, which requires a genuine revolution in management principles and practices. Saba embraces the MIX's vision for the future of management and is proud to collaborate with them to accelerate the pace of management innovation by powering its collaborative platform.

As a part of this alliance, Saba's People Cloud applications will power the MIX platform with collaboration, ideation, and conversation capabilities amongst the community of thought leaders and experts dedicated to revolutionizing management principles and practices.


As a partner and active participant in the MIX community, Saba will be able to exchange and gain insight into new management ideas and approaches that could better enable the company and its global customer base of 1,400 enterprises and nineteen million users to implement leading-edge ideas and practices.

"Saba's mission to provide solutions that enable enterprises to power up their people to boost performance and drive results aligns well with the MIX's goal to reinvent the way enterprises organize resources to productive ends", states Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO of Saba. "We look forward to joining Gary and other world-renowned experts to share best practices and innovate management methods that help organizations be more effective."

"Traditional hierarchical management structures inhibit creativity, collaboration, and progress", says Gary Hamel, founding member and architect of the MIX. "The MIX is a platform where trailblazers come to tackle these issues in order to create organizations that are inventive, adaptable, and engaging. Saba's passion for enabling people-driven enterprises makes it a perfect partner for the MIX."