About the Authors


Phillip Evans

Managing Director

Phillip has 15 years experience delivering Information Technology solutions to customers in the heavy industry, Government, and commercial arenas.

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Steven Goldberg

SVP North America

Steven Goldberg, well-known HR technology industry advisor, leads Evanscorp's expansion efforts in North America as Senior Vice President.

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Terry Coleman

Quality Assurance Manager & Senior Consultant

Terry works closely with the Product Manager and Development team to analyse software that requires testing, develop testing programs and lead in the testing of the software as well as working with clients to understand their business needs.

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Stefan Goecke

Chief Sales Officer

Stefan Goecke is Evanscorp's Chief Sales Officer, responsible for coordinating with various departments on product delivery requirements, liasing with potential clients in determining their product needs.

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Discussion Papers

We keep a close eye on the markets and environments our customers operate in. Here are some discussion papers we have developed to help our customers make better use of technology.

The abstracts are presented here, the full papers are also available for free after a small registration process.

Compensation Opportunities in Mergers and Acquisitions

Shared This paper explores A relatively new discipline within Human Resources: HR-M&A: the set of increasingly formal and well-developed processes and tools for proactively managing the people-related risks and opportunities inherent in M&A deals. more >

Review of Compensation Schemes and Enterprise Compensation Management Systems

An alternative to the continued use of spreadsheets to manage employee compensation are Enterprise Compensation Management Systems (ECMS). This report will review the compensation review process, the elements that comprise modern compensation schemes, the various classes of ECMS tools that are available, and finally a Best of Breed ECMS solution. more >

Recommendations for implementing performance management systems in organisations

The terms Performance Appraisal and Performance Management have been used interchangeably in the literature to describe the same process, yet there are important differences between the two systems. This report will review the common issues encountered with Performance Management Systems (PMS), and provide recommendations for implementing a PMS within an organisation. more >

Leadership qualities in volatile business environments

Turbulent economic environments such as the current Global Financial Crisis (GFC) present organisations with both challenges and opportunities. Researchers such as Sull (1999) and McGrath & MacMillan (2009) have investigated reasons why some companies succeed, while others fail when faced with changing market environments. more >

Under the Microscope: Executive Remuneration

The rise of deferred incentives may go some way towards solving the issue of executive accountability but at the same time it is making the process of executive remuneration reviews increasingly complex and time consuming. This increase in complexity has led to the emergence of a new class of tool: enterprise compensation management (ECM) technologies. more >

Malus Clauses in Executive compensation

Economic factors and financial challenges are causing a paradigm shift in how large organisations design their employee incentive schemes. Companies have started looking at adopting the concept of "Bonus Malus" or "Malus" to better align employee incentives with long term performance and ensure effective use of incentive spend. Remunerate can help. more >