Given that AI and machine learning are permeating through all facets of an organisation, it is only natural to expect that Culture Building would be one of the key areas that stand to benefit.
How does the deployment of emerging AI digital technologies help build Culture?
The sleek and smart setting at the Haymarket Hotel was the perfect compliment to a night of thought leadership and industry defining conversation, led by HR executives from a fantastic variety of industries and backgrounds.
The agenda focused on:
The shift from HR to People
HR Automation & AI
Employee Engagement
The People Experience
To give 2018 a proper sendoff, we’ve collected seven of the year’s most impactful pieces of thought leadership, which equip you with insight, information and best practices to help you assess and advance your own efforts. This collection of research reports, case studies, webinars, blogs and videos featured topics like Total Talent Acquisition, candidate experience, employer brand, recruitment technology, and these pieces will give you strong building blocks for the year to come:
Professor Dave Ulrich recently produced a video on the Future of HR (Outside/In) which emphasised the need for HR Strategy and Processes to be aimed at providing a service to the Investor, Customer and to Society.
Digital disruption has overhauled the rules of employee engagement amongst many other aspects in the employee and talent space. Businesses understand the importance of engaged employees and its effect on their productivity and commitment levels. They now need to leverage AI based digital advancements to help their employees collaborate, connect and communicate with a prime focus on keeping them happy and lowering the attrition rate.
As discussed earlier, digital disruption affects all aspects of the the Employee and Talent agenda . However, the challenge facing every organization is to also find the right balance between return on investment and cost involved in using technology .
How does deployment of Emerging AI digital technologies improve Costs and Productivity?
We have been talking about the impact of disruption on the Employee and Talent agenda. Today, everyone is used to being treated as a ‘Customer’ and the same expectation carries through when people enter an organisation. The growth of technology organisations (the world’s 5 biggest businesses are all technology based) and the benchmark they have set around how employees get treated (flexibility, free food & drink, personal perks, great decor & design etc) have raised the bar for other organisations.
Recently, The Business Transformation Network hosted an event on “HR TechOps - Bridging the Gap between HR Tech and Operational Excellence”, which is a topic of growing importance in business today. The main questions the conversation revolved around were:
1. What HR Technology platforms are being implemented and how is the implementation process going?
2. How can HR technology be used to improve efficiency and employee experience?
Innovative and, some would say, radical organisation design methods like Holacracy have sought to get rid of traditional management structures with the aim of introducing more agility, more creativity and more autonomy.
It’s official. HR has gone out of fashion. It can join trifle and perms in the category of things we look back on and wonder how we ever let that happen.
Let’s look at the evidence: HR leaders, surely the champions of their profession, don’t have HR in their job titles any more.