The human resources profession is undergoing rapid change. While HR used to be seen as an administrative function like finance, it now plays an increasingly strategic role within the digital transformation of global business. Boards today want HR teams to do more than keep staffing costs down, they want them to help create the organisation of tomorrow. Digital technology is changing the workforce and the experience of being ‘at work,’ from how work is organised, to the types of work people do, and the profile of the workforce itself. CEOs and COOs want a fundamentally different human resources strategy that addresses and leverages these changes. That puts HR departments in the spotlight to re-design core practices like talent acquisition to performance management. As digital technology makes life more networked and quantifiable; the new digital organisation must also be built around teams, with a focus on diversity, culture, learning, and analytics that can measure team effectiveness. As organisational structures evolve and the workforce becomes dominated by digital natives, innovative approaches are needed in every HR domain. HR departments need to innovate, experiment, and become fully digital in approach to, and delivery of, HR ‘services’ – both to executives and to […]
How Should HR Lead Digital Transformation Initiatives?
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